Serie A Week 6 - 18/10/03 (20.30)
Ancona - Juventus
Live on British Eurosport (7.30pm UK time)
Stadio Del Conero
Juventus are odds on favourites to take all three points from the bottom of the table club. The Bianconeri are joint top with Milan and have the perfect opportunity to take flight on the weekend that their rivals face Lazio.
Alessandro Del Piero and Alessandro Birindelli remain sidelined, so Fabrizio Miccoli will be given the nod alongside Marco Di Vaio with David Trezeguet likely to be rested. Nicola Legrottaglie is also set to miss the game with a calf problem.
The controversy is still raging from Gianluca Zambrotta’s admission he dived to win a penalty against Bologna, so the referee for this encounter will perhaps think twice before awarding a spot-kick.
Ancona have picked up just one point from their opening five games and fired Coach Leonardo Menichini. New boss Nedo Sonetti has had a fortnight to work with the side now and they can only improve on the comical performance that saw Udinese win 3-0 away from home.
Sonetti looks set to stick with the ex-Piacenza trio of Eusebio Di Francesco, Paolo Poggi and Dario Hubner, but it is the defence that risks a humiliating scoreline with the pace of Miccoli and Pavel Nedved.
Ancona (probable): Scarpi; Daino, Bilica, Viali, Milanese; Sommese, Carrus, Maini, Di Francesco; Hubner, Poggi
Juventus (probable): Buffon; Thuram, Ferrara, Iuliano, Zambrotta; Camoranesi, Tacchinardi, Davids; Nedved; Di Vaio, Miccoli
Ref: To follow
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