Milan v Napoli: Marianucci starts, Modric to lead Rossoneri | OneFootball

We are just a few hours away from the highly anticipated big match between Massimiliano Allegri's Milan and Antonio Conte's Napoli, the two teams that will likely fight to the end for the victory of the Serie A 2025/2026. At San Siro, at 20:45 today, 28th September, a beautiful game on paper will take place, with the challenge between two coaches who have always been defined as rivals to each other.

Milan-Napoli, probable line-ups: Azzurri with Marianucci in defense, Modric leads the Rossoneri

Let's find out together what are the most likely line-ups we will see on the field, waiting for the official ones that will usually come out by 20:00. Napoli, as also mentioned by Conte in the press conference, is experiencing a real emergency due to the new injury of an increasingly fragile Alessandro Buongiorno, the relapse suffered by Amir Rrahmani who will return after the break (he will also miss Sporting Lisbon and Genoa), and the last-minute absences of Leonardo Spinazzola and Mathias Olivera.

For this reason, Conte would have resolved the last-minute doubts, with Juan Jesus chosen to replace Buongiorno and Luca Marianucci, surprisingly in place of Sam Beukema, to accompany him, with Miguel Gutierrez who will play on the left wing given the injuries of Spinazzola and Olivera. For the rest, there should be no surprises, with Alex Meret for the moment ahead of Sergej Milinkovic-Savic.

NAPOLI (4-1-4-1): Meret; Di Lorenzo, Marianucci, Juan Jesus, Gutierrez; Lobotka; Politano, Anguissa, De Bruyne, McTominay; Hojlund. Coach: Antonio Conte.

For Milan, the situation is different, with the backbone of the team that will not undergo changes compared to the line-up fielded in the last Serie A match played against Udinese. It remains to be seen how many minutes Rafael Leao will have, just back after the early season injury that kept him out of the first league outings of the season: the Portuguese should have a maximum of thirty minutes in his legs.

MILAN (3-5-2): Maignan; Tomori, Gabbia, Pavlovic; Saelemaekers, Fofana, Modric, Rabiot, Estupinian; Pulisic, Gimenez. Coach: Massimiliano Allegri.

Mario Di Domenico

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