Gagliardini is likely to start ahead of Vecino and Joao Mario is in front of Borja Valero: the Italian and the Portuguese are therefore the first candidates to support Brozovic in the middle of Spalletti’s now preferred 4-3-3 formation.

Corriere dello Sport also states that in defence everything points to the likely starting partnership of De Vrij and Skriniar, while the full-backs should be D’Ambrosio and Asamoah.

In attack, Icardi and Perisic are expected to start with Politano preferred to Candreva. The President, Steven Zhang, will not be in Bergamo as he will still be in China.

The lunch time match is due to start at 12:30 CET and Inter hope to reverse what has been a sequence of negative results away to Atalanta. Icardi is also hoping to score his first goal for Inter at the Dall’Ara.

The probable lineup according to CdS:

Inter (4-3-3): Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, De Vrij, Skriniar, Asamoah; Gagliardini, Brozovic, Joao Mario; Politano, Icardi, Perisic.