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Fiorentina vs Internazionale

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Stadio Artemio Franchi

Date: 5th January 2018

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Inter Milan are in all sorts of trouble at the moment despite starting the season very well.

The Nerazzurri were top of the Serie A at some point this season but they are now seven points off the pace.

They have also exited the Coppa Italia against an AC Milan side that is in arguably in bigger trouble than they are.

They fired Fiorentina manager Stefan Pioli back in May and this game seems set up for him to get his much needed revenge.

Inter Milan are the fourth best converters of set plays in the league and Fiorentina are struggling to deal with set plays so Inter Milan could get chances to punish them in this game.

Fiorentina are not in the shape they should be for a team who are looking to play in Europe next season as they have just two wins from their last 8 league games.

They have also won less than half of their total games this season but they head into this game in better shape than when they first met in the season’s opening weeks.

AC Milan earned a 1-1 draw in this venue last time out which means the host have now netted in 89% of their home games this season and 67% of those have ended with both teams scoring.

The fact that three of the last four meetings between these sides have ended with both teams scoring could see them play out a thriller here again.

Results of each team’s last 5 matches across all leagues and competitions

Fiorentina

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
L Lazio 1-0 Fiorentina 26 Dec, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
W Cagliari 0-1 Fiorentina 22 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A
D Fiorentina 0-0 Genoa 17 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Fiorentina 3-2 Sampdoria 13 Dec, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
D Napoli 0-0 Fiorentina 10 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A

Internazionale

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
L AC Milan 1-0 Internazionale 27 Dec, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
L Sassuolo 1-0 Internazionale 23 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A
L Internazionale 1-3 Udinese 16 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A
W Internazionale 0-0 Pordenone Calcio 12 Dec, 2017 Italian Coppa Italia
D Juventus 0-0 Internazionale 9 Dec, 2017 Italian Serie A

H2H

LAST FIVE GAMES DATE COMPETITION
Internazionale 3-0 Fiorentina 20 Aug, 2017 Italian Serie A
Fiorentina 5-4 Internazionale 22 Apr, 2017 Italian Serie A
Internazionale 4-2 Fiorentina 28 Nov, 2016 Italian Serie A
Fiorentina 2-1 Internazionale 14 Feb, 2016 Italian Serie A
Internazionale 1-4 Fiorentina 27 Sep, 2015 Italian Serie A


Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

March 17, 2024
Atalanta 19:00 Fiorentina
April 27, 2024
Lecce 14:00 Monza
Juventus 17:00 AC Milan
Lazio 19:45 Verona
April 28, 2024
Inter Milan 11:30 Torino
Bologna 14:00 Udinese
Atalanta 17:00 Empoli
SSC Napoli 17:00 Roma
Fiorentina 19:45 Sassuolo
April 29, 2024
Genoa 19:45 Cagliari
May 3, 2024
Torino 19:45 Bologna
May 4, 2024
Monza 17:00 Lazio
Sassuolo 19:45 Inter Milan
May 5, 2024
Cagliari 11:30 Lecce
Empoli 14:00 Frosinone
Verona 14:00 Fiorentina
AC Milan 17:00 Genoa
Roma 19:45 Juventus
May 6, 2024
Salernitana 17:00 Atalanta
Udinese 19:45 SSC Napoli

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Inter Milan 33 27 5 1 79 18 +61 86
2 AC Milan 33 21 6 6 64 39 +25 69
3 Juventus 33 18 10 5 47 26 +21 64
4 Bologna 33 17 11 5 48 26 +22 62
5 Roma 33 17 7 9 59 39 +20 58
6 Atalanta 32 16 6 10 59 37 +22 54
7 Lazio 33 16 4 13 42 35 +7 52
8 SSC Napoli 33 13 10 10 50 41 +9 49
9 Fiorentina 32 13 8 11 45 36 +9 47
10 Torino 33 11 13 9 31 29 +2 46
11 Monza 33 11 10 12 35 43 -8 43
12 Genoa 33 9 12 12 35 40 -5 39
13 Lecce 33 8 11 14 30 48 -18 35
14 Cagliari 33 7 11 15 36 56 -20 32
15 Verona 33 7 10 16 31 44 -13 31
16 Empoli 33 8 7 18 26 48 -22 31
17 Frosinone 34 7 10 17 43 63 -20 31
18 Udinese 33 4 16 13 31 50 -19 28
19 Sassuolo 33 6 8 19 39 65 -26 26
20 Salernitana 34 2 9 23 26 73 -47 15

Serie A Results

April 26, 2024
Frosinone 3 - 0 Salernitana
April 25, 2024
Udinese 1 - 2 Roma
April 22, 2024
AC Milan 1 - 2 Inter Milan
Roma 1 - 3 Bologna
April 21, 2024
Monza 1 - 2 Atalanta
Salernitana 0 - 2 Fiorentina
Torino 0 - 0 Frosinone
Sassuolo 0 - 3 Lecce
April 20, 2024
Verona 1 - 0 Udinese
Empoli 1 - 0 SSC Napoli
April 19, 2024
Cagliari 2 - 2 Juventus
Genoa 0 - 1 Lazio
April 15, 2024
Atalanta 2 - 2 Verona
Fiorentina 1 - 1 Genoa
April 14, 2024
Inter Milan 2 - 2 Cagliari
Sassuolo 3 - 3 AC Milan
SSC Napoli 2 - 2 Frosinone
April 13, 2024
Bologna 0 - 0 Monza
Torino 0 - 0 Juventus
Lecce 1 - 0 Empoli

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