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topicnews · September 28, 2024

Official Serie A Lineups Week 6

Official Serie A Lineups Week 6

Dusan Vlahovic Juventus celebrates (Photo by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Images)


Juventus renew themselves again, with Danilo and youth player Jonas Rouhi starting in defense, but Dusan Vlahovic’s goal drought is a problem against struggling Genoa behind closed doors.

It starts at 5pm UK time (4pm GMT) at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris.

You can follow all the build-up and action of this Udinese-Inter and Bologna-Atalanta game in the LIVEBLOG.

Before kick-off there were problems with a fire in Marassi’s VAR booth. Therefore, it is possible that on-field review technology is not available, although they can still remain in contact with the referee.

This match will be played behind closed doors due to an emergency order from local authorities following the violent clashes that marred the Coppa Italia penalty shoot-out defeat to Sampdoria in midweek.

It was the last difficult phase for the Grifone, who have picked up one point in three Serie A games and are increasingly suffering from injuries.

Ruslan Malinovskyi is out for the season with a broken ankle, while Junior Messias, Brooke Norton-Cuffy and Caleb Ekuban remain out.

Fabio Miretti missed a penalty in the midweek shootout and starts here against his parent club alongside 16-year-old Honest Ahanor.

Juventus beat PSV Eindhoven 3-1 in the Champions League, but has now played to three consecutive 0-0 draws in Serie A against Roma, Empoli and Napoli.

They are yet to concede a goal in the top flight this season, but goals have been difficult to come by despite the combined appearances of Dusan Vlahovic, Nico Gonzalez, Teun Koopmeiners and Kenan Yildiz.

Douglas Luiz is on the bench again, this time in favor of Nicolò Fagioli, while Tim Weah and Arkadiusz Milik are injured, but the surprises are in defense.

Federico Gatti isn’t at 100 percent, so Pierre Kalulu moves into the middle while Danilo is deployed at right-back for the first time.

Thiago Motta causes another surprise by poaching 20-year-old Rouhi from the Next Gen team as a left-back for his first senior appearance.

Michele Di Gregorio is also rested in goal, meaning Mattia Perin will play against his old club.

Lineups Genoa-Juventus

Genoa: Gollini; De Winter, Bani, Vasquez; Zanoli, Frendrup, Badelj, Miretti, Ahanor; Pinamonti, Vitinha

Juventus: Perin; Danilo, Kalulu, Bremer, Rouhi; McKennie, Fagioli; Nico Gonzalez, Koopmeiners, Yildiz; Vlahovic

GENE

JUV

95

59

69

22

4

13

47

32

19

9

1

3

6

40

15

21

16

9

10

11

20

2

8

14

39

1

33

3

27

30

53

21

27

23

5

4

29

19

32

26

51

37