Preview: Venezia vs. Inter Milan - prediction, team news, lineups

Following their derby decision successful the Supercoppa Italiana, reigning Serie A champions Inter Milan volition purpose to get consecutive backmost connected way erstwhile they sojourn Venezia connected Sunday.

Though Inter threw distant a two-goal pb to suffer the supercup last against their arch-rivals, they person won each of their past 5 league games portion scoring 19 goals.

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For the 2nd clip this season, Inter succumbed to decision against AC Milan, arsenic they mislaid 3-2 successful Monday's Supercoppa decider contempt starring until the 80th minute.

Four days aft beating Scudetto rivals Atalanta BC successful the semis, objective finishes by beforehand brace Lautaro Martinez and Mehdi Taremi enactment the Nerazzurri connected people for a 4th consecutive supercup triumph, but they failed to past the gait and had to ticker their aged foes assistance the trophy instead.

Tammy Abraham's precocious victor successful Saudi Arabia consigned Inter to conscionable a 2nd home decision of the season, truthful they volition instrumentality to league enactment intent connected extending an unbeaten streak of 12 Serie A matches.

After conquering Cagliari successful their last fixture of 2024, Simone Inzaghi's broadside are 1 of lone 2 teams - on with Juventus - yet to suffer an distant crippled successful Italy's apical formation this term; indeed, they person won each of their past 5 without conceding.

Therefore, Inter could present station six consecutive distant wins portion keeping a cleanable expanse for the precise archetypal clip successful Serie A, and precedent seems to suggest they tin bash so.

For the past 5 seasons, the Nerazzurri person won their archetypal league lucifer of the calendar year, and they are favourites to acceptable a caller nine champion by making it six connected the rotation this weekend.

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After Inter came retired connected apical successful November's reverse fixture, with Martinez scoring the lone extremity astatine San Siro, Venezia person mislaid each of the clubs' past 3 meetings.

Few would expect a broadside struggling successful the bottommost 3 to occupation Italy's champions, but the Lagunari volition invited their second-city counterparts to Stadio Pier Luigi Penzo amid their astir productive spell of the season.

Top scorer Joel Pohjanpalo netted the aboriginal opener against Empoli past clip out, but they yet had to settee for a 1-1 gully aft Inter loanee Sebastiano Esposito struck backmost to equalise.

Nonetheless, Venezia person present mislaid conscionable 1 of their past 5 games by tightening up successful defence; keeping them wrong touching region of 17th spot and their extremity of top-tier survival.

Occupying 19th place aft 19 games - marking the season's halfway signifier - Eusebio Di Francesco's men person collected 11 of their 14 points connected location turf, truthful they whitethorn clasp retired anticipation of producing a large daze connected Sunday.

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Adding to Inter's caller wounded issues astatine the back, German defender Yann Bisseck suffered a thigh strain successful the Supercoppa last and has joined Francesco Acerbi connected the attraction table.

In amended quality for Simone Inzaghi, the instrumentality of Benjamin Pavard could beryllium timely, with the France planetary perchance stepping into Bisseck's boots this weekend. Furthermore, 12-goal apical scorer Marcus Thuram volition beryllium backmost to pb the visitors' beforehand line.

Thuram's chap guardant Joaquin Correa is inactive unavailable, though, and midfield pivot Hakan Calhanoglu is simply a large doubt.

Venezia, meanwhile, volition beryllium acrophobic astir the fittingness of Inter primavera merchandise Gaetano Oristanio, whose tally of 37 completed dribbles is joint-top of the Serie A rankings, alongside Milan prima Rafael Leao.

Due to injury, Oristanio whitethorn miss retired connected gathering his erstwhile side, but on-loan goalkeeper Filip Stankovic - who has made a large content since claiming the Arancioneroverdi's fig 1 spot - volition surely diagnostic against his genitor club.

If Oristanio joins Michael Svoboda, Alfred Duncan, Issa Doumbia and Domen Crnigoj connected the sidelines, John Yeboah would spouse Joel Pohjanpalo up front.

Venezia imaginable starting lineup:
Stankovic; Idzes, Sverko, Altare; Zampano, Busio, Nicolussi Caviglia, Ellertsson, Carboni; Yeboah, Pohjanpalo

We say: Venezia 0-3 Inter Milan

As Inter volition beryllium fired up to beryllium a point, Venezia could beryllium presented with a formidable task astatine Stadio Penzo.

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