It's an absurdly empty stadium in Florence tonight, but Italy have a chance to qualify for Euro 2012 with a win, or by matching Serbia's result against the Faroe Islands (they're currently 1-0 up). Slovenia, meanwhile, are even with Serbia on points in Group C, with 11, so they're certainly hoping to pull out some sort of impressive result in Italy tonight. Or crossing their fingers that the Faroes will come back and find some goals against Serbia. Either one seems slightly impractical. However, the top scorer for Slovenia, Tim Matavž, does have five goals to the four of Italy's Antonio Cassano. So that's...something.
Italy Vs. Slovenia, Euro 2012 Qualifying: Lineups
Italy Starting XI: Buffon; Cassani, Ranocchia, Chiellini, Balzaretti; Thiago Motta, Pirlo, De Rossi; Montolivo; Cassano, Rossi
Italy bench: De Sanctis, Criscito, Pazzini, Marchisio, Balotelli, Bonucci, Nocerino
Slovenia Starting XI: Jasmin Handanovic; Brecko, Cesar, Suler, Jokic; Birsa, Koren, Vrsic, Kirm; Radosavljevic, Novakovic
Slovenia bench: Belec, Ilic, Pecnik, Dedic, Ilicic, Mavric, Matavz
Grazie Football Italia for the lineups!
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