Tuesday 26th February 2019, 9:00 pm
Stadio Olimpico, Rome
Coppa Italia - Semi-final match
Before the important return match in Serie A championship that could contribute to approach towards a place in Champions League , Lazio and Milan will play in the national cup, with the semi-finals scheduled for 26th February and 24th April.
On the previous 18 matches, tie for just 3 times. In the other 15 matches, Milan won 8 times, while Lazio 7 times.
After the beautiful victory last friday evening against Empoli (3-0) the team of coach Rino Gattuso is returned back to work to prepare for the match of tuesday evening against Lazio. The match is very importance for Milan environments in fact Elliott has asked maximum effort to their men. In Milanello center Milan has carried out an aerobic work-out and exercises for ball possession in order to try leading the match: against Lazio Suso will return to the starter team from the first minute after the disqualification: the Spanish must redeem himself from the negative period of this part odf the season.
For Lazio the motivations are not lacking: 28th January of last year, at the San Siro stadium, Milan won 2-1thanks to the goal scored by Cutrone so "biancocelesti" wish to redeem themselves. Inzaghi will have to manage with the injured players, especially in defence: with Wallace and Luiz Felipe still out and Bastos who should come back , the defensive group will be led by Lucas Leiva helped by Acerbi and Patric. In the midfield Romulo will be in the holder group. Just a doubt in the attack line where the partner of Immobile could be Correa or Caicedo.
LAZIO (3-5-1-1): Strakosha; Patric, L.Leiva, Acerbi; Marusic, Badelj, Cataldi, Lulic, Sergej; Luis Alberto; Immobile
MILAN (4-3-3): G.Donnarumma; Calabria, Musacchio, Romagnoli, Rodriguez; Kessie, Bakayoko, Paquetà; Suso, Piatek, Calhanoglu.
Our prediction is double chance X2 and Under 3.5.
Comments