[{$Today Live$}]Italy vs North Macedonia Today 18/11/23
The game between Italy and North Macedonia will be played at the Olimpico Stadium on Friday. Kick-off is at 7.45pm GMT for fans in the UK.
The Azzurri need four points from the remaining two games against North Macedonia and Ukraine to secure qualification for EURO 2024 and avoid the play-offs.
Coach Luciano Spalletti has been forced to do without several players who pulled out through injury, including Bastoni, Manuel Locatelli, Mateo Retegui, Davide Calabria, Rafael Toloi, Cristiano Biraghi and Giorgio Scalvini.
This limits the options in defence, so Juventus centre-back Gatti steps into the all-Inter group of Matteo Darmian, Francesco Acerbi and Federico Dimarco, as Giovanni Di Lorenzo is suspended.
Jorginho had not been called up since the Nations League Final Four, but goes straight into the starting XI for his first cap under Spalletti.
Raspadori is the favourite to be a centre-forward rather than Gianluca Scamacca, flanked by Chiesa and Domenico Barella.
Probable line-ups
Italy (4-3-3): Donnarumma; Darmian, Gatti, Acerbi, Dimarco; Barella, Jorginho, Bonaventura; Berardi, Raspadori, Chiesa
North Macedonia (3-5-2): Dimitrievski; Manev, Serafimov, Musliu; Ashkovski, Elezi, Atanasov, Bardhi, Alioski; Elmas, Miovski
Team news & squads
Italy team news
At the 30-minute mark at Wembley, Napoli right-back Giovanni Di Lorenzo received his third booking in Group C, and that means he is suspended for Friday's match.
Since announcing the squad, Luciano Spalletti has faced additional setbacks, losing Rafael Toloi, Alex Meret, Manuel Locatelli, Alessandro Bastoni and Davide Calabria to injuries.
Italy predicted XI: Donnarumma; Darmian, Acerbi, Mancini, Dimarco; Barella, Jorginho, Frattesi; Berardi, Scamacca, Chiesa
North Macedonia team news
North Macedonia captain Stefan Ristovski has been absent from the squad since June due to a disagreement with head coach Blagoja Milevski.
Valon Ethemi and Ljupcho Doriev, present in last month's squad, have not been included this time around.
North Macedonia predicted XI: Dimitrievski; Manev, Musliu, Serafimov; Ashkovski, Ademi, Atanasov, Alioski; Bardhi, Elmas; Trajkovski
H2H
Republic of North Macedonia - Italy (10.09.2023) 1:1
Italy - Republic of North Macedonia (25.03.2022) 0:1
Italy - Republic of North Macedonia (07.10.2017) 1:1
Republic of North Macedonia - Italy (10.10.2016) 2:3
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