Venezia vs Inter Milan - prediction, team news, lineups

Top meets bottommost successful Serie A, arsenic league leaders Inter Milan sojourn Venezia astatine Stadio Penzo connected Wednesday evening.

Inter dramatically reclaimed archetypal spot with a precocious comeback past weekend, portion the Lagunari mislaid for the seventh clip this term.

Match preview

Last season’s treble winners are inactive undefeated successful Serie A, but Inter had to travel from down for the 5th clip successful 8 league games erstwhile they hosted Fiorentina connected Sunday.

Moving backmost to the acme - conscionable up of astonishment challengers Lazio - the Nerazzurri rallied to triumph 2-1, striking doubly successful the closing stages astatine San Siro.

After going 1-0 down, they were repeatedly denied by Viola skipper David De Gea, but they yet broke done erstwhile Marcus Thuram scored with his eighth effort of the match. 

Then, heavy into stoppage time, Thuram was hauled implicit successful the country and Piotr Zielinski coolly dispatched the consequent penalty, truthful Inter person inactive dropped conscionable 2 points successful Serie A this term.

In fact, they are 7 points amended disconnected than astatine this clip past year, erstwhile they went connected to assistance the Scudetto successful Cristian Chivu’s archetypal campaign.

Before gathering AC Milan for the Derby della Madonnina - past facing Feyenoord successful the Champions League - Chivu’s broadside indispensable archetypal caput for Venice, wherever they person won connected some of their past 2 visits without conceding.

Including a 5-1 Coppa Italia decision to Inter past twelvemonth - successful which Thuram bagged a brace - Venezia person mislaid each of the clubs’ past 5 meetings.

Furthermore, they volition caput into this clash connected a genuinely dismal tally of form, having registered conscionable 3 points since returning to Serie A.

Promoted backmost to Italy’s apical formation past spring, the Lagunari person already swapped Giovanni Stroppa for endurance specializer Davide Nicola, who pulled disconnected an unexpected triumph implicit Napoli connected his dugout debut.

That ‘new manager bounce’ was swiftly grounded, though, arsenic Venezia mislaid 1-0 to Genoa past weekend, with Mikael Ellertsson scoring a superb extremity against his aged club.

Conceding astatine a complaint of much than 2 goals per game, the Arancioneroverdi indispensable present face Inter’s league-leading attack, truthful determination whitethorn good beryllium immoderate fearfulness amongst the Venetian faithful.

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Team News

After complimenting Thuram for his good caller form, Chivu suggested the French striker could beryllium rested successful midweek, up of 2 important games.

So, with captain Lautaro Martinez still sidelined by injury, Ange Bonny and Pio Esposito should commencement unneurotic up front.

Inter’s lack database besides features Luis Henrique and Benjamin Pavard, positive English brace John Stones and Curtis Jones; the second is closest to returning, but helium whitethorn not marque the travel to Stadio Penzo.

Venezia are acceptable to invited backmost their skipper, Gianluca Busio, but respective men are inactive missing.

Marin Sverko, Bartol Franjic and Andrea Adorante each proceed to retrieve from injury, portion wing-back Thierry Correia remains a fittingness doubt.

Nicola’s 3-5-2 setup should beryllium led by John Yeboah and Nigeria planetary Akor Adams, the second of whom has scored 2 goals successful his past 4 league games.

Venezia imaginable starting lineup:

F. Stankovic; Schingtienne, Halhal, Moreno; Hainaut, Perez, Basic, Sohm, Haps; Yeboah, Adams

Inter Milan imaginable starting lineup:

J. Martinez; Bisseck, Akanji, Augusto; Spence, Sucic, A. Stankovic, Zielinski, Dimarco; Bonny, Esposito

We say: Venezia 0-3 Inter Milan 

While they person continued to conflict successful Europe, Inter person made their champion commencement successful Serie A since 2017, regularly turning games astir aft falling behind.

Even if Chivu rotates, that whitethorn not beryllium an contented connected Wednesday, arsenic lowly Venezia are improbable to occupation the Scudetto holders.

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