Serie A: Sassuolo v Fiorentina

Sassuolo v Fiorentina

Monday Night

After an astonishing round of results (including a Juventus win), we take our turn next against a less than easy Sassuolo side who sit behind Juventus, Roma and Milan.

We return from a relatively susessful week in which we took a 2-2 draw against Basel putting us in a relatively good position to qualify from the group stages of the UEFA Europa League. It was also because of that match we sit here on Monday night with an 'extra' day of rest.

Napoli will play tonight in the match of the evening and possibly even the week as they go up against Inter - now there's a team who really have had an extra day's rest.

After a couple of draws, Paulo Sousa will look to put back some winning stability in the team. He has some slightly tough choices to make now that he knows our second string team doesn't work quite like the first string team in that 3-4-2-1 formation he appropriates. This leaves him little choice but to pick the first string team that have taken us to the top of the table. So the only real decision he has to make is who plays in place of the unavailable Blaszczykowski. Will it be Gilberto or Bernadeschi?

Funny how a couple of years ago we would have easily settled to be in third place, but now, having reached the summit so early and so easily, third place looks like a failure. When the press starts calling you title challengers, you really have to live up to the name. Third place now looks exactly like what it has alway been; third.

Sassuolo 4-3-3:

Consigli

Vrsaljko - Cannavaro - Acerbi - Peluso

Missiroli - Duncan - Magnanelli

Sansone - Defrel - Floro Flores


Kalinic

Valero - Illicic

Marcos Alonso - Badelj - Vecino - Bernadeschi

Astori - Gonzalo - Roncaglia

Tatarasanu

Fiorentina 3-4-2-1:


This match is on at 6pm.

That's 9pm Bahrain, 1pm Boston and 5am Melbourne.

Live on BT Sport Europe

Serie A: Sassuolo v Fiorentina