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Preview · Serie A

Inter put a 17-match unbeaten league run on the line against a Fiorentina side in the bottom three

Inter have won all four of their home league games this season and play without Lautaro Martínez until mid-November. Fiorentina are eighteenth after two straight defeats and have lost their last three league visits to San Siro.

Editorial board · 24 October 2026
The exterior of San Siro in early evening light, with a tram passing in front.
San Siro from the forecourt near Gate 12, March 2025. Photo: Nabbegat / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0

Inter go into Sunday lunchtime top of Serie A, level on points with Lazio and ahead on goal difference, and unbeaten in 17 league matches, the longest run of Cristian Chivu's time in charge. They have won all four home league games this season and scored 15 goals in them.

Inter are expected to win in an open game of three goals or more.

Line-ups

ProvedelBisseckAkanjiBastoniDioufBarellaCalhanogluMkhitaryanCarlos AugustoPio EspositoThuramDe GeaJimenezDragusinPongracicValdepenasNdourFagioliBrescianiniMastantuonoPellegrinoNjieProvedelBisseckAkanjiBastoniDioufBarellaCalhanogluMkhitaryanCarlos AugustoPio EspositoThuramDe GeaJimenezDragusinPongracicValdepenasNdourFagioliBrescianiniMastantuonoPellegrinoNjie

Inter 3-5-2

Substitutes Josep Martinez, Di Gennaro, Stankovic, Zielinski, Sucic, Bonny, Dimarco, Bovio, Mosconi, Jakirovic, Lavelli, Spence

Fiorentina 4-3-3

Substitutes Lezzerini, Christensen, Dodo, Joao Mario, Beto, Pedro Goncalves, Gnonto, Viery, Oulai, Mazzeo, Pirrò, Ademi

Confirmed 10:41 UTC · Line-ups: linterista.it Bastoni starts in Inter's 3-5-2, Stones is not named and Pio Esposito partners Thuram up front, with Dimarco on the bench. Fiorentina line up 4-3-3 with Pellegrino leading the line and Gnonto among the substitutes.

They will do it without Lautaro Martínez, out with a hamstring injury until mid-November, and without Luis Henrique, Pavard and Jones; Stones is a doubt. The goals have come from elsewhere: Thuram has scored in each of his last six home Serie A appearances, and Çalhanoğlu has seven Serie A goals against Fiorentina.

Fiorentina are eighteenth with four points from seven matches, after a 3-1 home defeat by Como and a 2-1 defeat at Genoa. Paolo Vanoli, without Atta, Ranieri and Parisi, says his side need the perfect match and that nothing is impossible, and admits that conceding three again is a worry.

The fixture has long favoured Inter. They are unbeaten in 16 of the last 18 league meetings, and Fiorentina have lost on each of their last three league visits to San Siro.