Serie A: Empoli vs Milan – probable line-ups

 

Milan launch their 2024 with an excursion away to a striving Empoli, hoping to stay up with the association chiefs.

The match between the Tuscan side and the Rossoneri starts off at 11.30 UK time at the Stadio Carlo Castellani in Empoli.

Empoli have neglected to recreate the energy shown last term and presently wind up in a challenging situation entering 2024, sitting nineteenth in the table with 13 places, two behind seventeenth spot Cagliari.

The Azzurri can't depend on the harmed Simone Bastoni, Viktor Kovalenko, Bartosz Bersezynski, Jacopo Fazzini, Giuseppe Pezzella and Gabriele Guarino. Liberato Cacace is inaccessible through suspension.

Milan have begun to produce somewhat more consistency after their new drop in structure and sit third in the Serie A table. Bury's success over Hellas Verona on Saturday implies the Rossoneri are presently 12 focuses behind their intercity rivals, so they can't stand to drop focuses in Tuscany.

Stefano Pioli's side are amidst a physical issue emergency and are without Marco Sportiello, Malick Thiaw, Fikayo Tomori, Pierre Kalulu, Tommaso Pobega and Noah Okafor.

At the point when these two groups met last season, Milan got a 3-1 win away yet were held by Empoli to a 0-0 draw at home