A Italian Cup semi-final will be played this Tuesday and will have a derby at the Allianz Stadium, in Turin, starting at 4 pm (Brasília time). Juventus and Inter Milan face the “Derby D’Italia” for the first leg of the duel that is worth a place in the final of the tournament.
The previous phase of the Italian Cup was played in February and a lot has changed in relation to the phase of the two teams. Juventus had three setbacks in a row in the Italian Championship until eliminating Lazio in the knockout quarterfinals. Since then, Velha Senhora has won 10 of the 12 games played in all competitions.
On the other side, Inter passed Atalanta to reach the Coppa Italia semi-finals. Before that, the nerazzuri had been champions of the Italian Super Cup over their biggest rival, Milanand occupied the vice-leadership of Serie A. However, at this moment, Internazionale fell to fourth place and comes from three consecutive defeats in the Italian Championship, including a defeat by Juventus itself by 1-0.
O last duel between teams took place two weeks ago at the San Siro in Milan. Inter had great chances to open the scoring, but wasted. Juve reached the goal in the 23rd minute with a cross kick by Filip Kostic. The bid generated a lot of complaints from the opponent asking for a hand touch from Adrien Rabiot at the beginning of the play.
For this Tuesday’s match, Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri will not have the Brazilian Alex Sandro available and will be without Leonardo Bonucci and Paul Pogba. The good news is the return of striker Federico Chiesa from injury.
PROBABLE JUVENTUS LINEUP: Wojciech Szczęsny; Juan Cuadrado, Federico Gatti, Bremer, Danilo and Filip Kostic; Nicolò Fagioli, Manuel Locatelli and Adrien Rabiot; Ángel DiMaria and Moise Kean.
Inter Milan will be without midfielder Hakan Çalhanoğlu and winger Federico Dimarco for the “Derby D’Italia”, but should have the return of Lautaro Martínez to the first team. The Argentine was rested in the last match, in the home defeat against Fiorentinaand only acted in the second half.
INTER’S PROBABLE LINEUP: Andre Onana; Denzel Dumfries, Matteo Darmian, Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni and Robin Gosens; Nicolò Barella, Marcelo Brozovic and Henrikh Mkhitaryan; Edin Dzeko and Lautaro Martinez.
Source: Gazetaesportiva
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