2 weeks Ago By Alessandro Bai
Fiorentina coach Raffaele Palladino will be forced to do without his star Albert Guðmundsson against Roma, while he still hopes striker Moise Kean can be fit enough to start. It kicks off at 20:45 CET at the Stadio Artemio Franchi (19:45 GMT) in Florence. which forced him out of Fiorentina’s Conference League fixture at St Gallen but he should return to the starting XI against the Giallorossi, with Lucas Beltran set to take Guðmundsson’s place.
Palladino is expected to confirm a four-man defence for the occasion, with Dodo and Robert Gosens as full-backs. Yacine Adli and Danilo Cataldi will be the Viola’s holding midfielders, while Andrea Colpani and Edoardo Bove will flank Beltran in the trio behind the striker. Roma’s starting line-up is expected to be mostly similar to the one defeated by Inter last week, as Ivan Juric should pick Mario Hermoso to complete his defensive trio alongside Gianluca Mancini and Evan N’Dicka, with Angelino set to replace Nicola Zalewski on the left in midfield.
Paulo Dybala and Lorenzo Pellegrini should start behind Artem Dovbyk, mid-week in the Europa League. The game will be broadcast live on OneFootball in the UK and Paramount+ in the USA. Fans in Australia and New Zealand can watch the Stadio Artemio Franchi fixture on beIN SPORTS and beIN SPORTS CONNECT.
Fiorentina (4-2-3-1): De Gea; Dodo, Comuzzo, Ranieri, Gosens; Adli, Cataldi; Colpani, Beltran, Bove; Kean. Roma (3-4-2-1): Svilar; Mancini, Ndicka, Hermoso; Celik, Koné, Cristante, Angelino; Dybala, Pellegrini; Dovbyk.
