Inter coach Simone Inzaghi and his Porto counterpart Sergio Conceicao have decided to field the following 22 players in tonight’s Champions League round of sixteen second leg clash at the Estadio do Dragao in Porto, Portugal, with kickoff scheduled for 21.00 CET.
The Nerazzurri coach has decided against starting Milan Skriniar as the Slovakian international defender is yet at full fitness after his back injury albeit on the bench.
In his place Inzaghi has opted for Matteo Darmian to the right of the back three, next to Francesco Acerbi and Alessandro Bastoni respectively.
In the middle of the pitch Nicolo Barella starts with Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Hakan Calhanoglu both returning to the fold with the Turkish international replacing Marcelo Brozovic.
Federico Dimarco and Denzel Dumfries both return to the lineup on the wings, replacing the injured Robin Gosens who misses the match completely with Danilo D’Ambrosio starting in the bench.
Up front Lautaro Martinez is joined by Bosnian veteran striker Edin Dzeko who replaces Romelu Lukaku who starts the match on the bench, despite scoring the winner in the first leg in the 1-0 win over Porto at the San Siro.
Porto (4-4-2): Diogo Costa; Pepé, Cardoso, Marcano, Zaidu; Eustaquio, Grujic, Uribe, Galeno; Evanilson, Taremi.
Substitutes: Ramos, Portugal, Carmo, Conceicao, Wendell, Vasco Sousa, André Franco, Folha, Borges, Veron, Toni Martinez, Namaso.
Coach: Sergio Conceiçao.
Suspended: Otavio (1 match).
Injured and unavailable: Fernando Andrade, Joao Marcelo, Joao Mario, Pepe.
Inter (3-5-2): Andre Onana; Matteo Darmian, Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni; Denzel Dumfries, Nicolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Federico Dimarco; Edin Dzeko, Lautaro Martinez.
Substitutes: Samir Handanovic, Alex Cordaz, Stefan de Vrij, Milan Skriniar, Danilo D’Ambrosio, Raoul Bellanova, Marcelo Brozovic, Kristjan Asllani, Roberto Gagliardini, Valentin Carboni, Joaquin Correa, Romelu Lukaku.
Coach: Simone Inzaghi.
Suspended: no one.
Injured and unavailable: Robin Gosens.
Referee: Szymon Marciniak.
Assistant referees: Sokolnicki and Listkiewicz.
Fourth official: Raczkowski.
VAR: Kwiatkowski and Frankowski.
