Serie A Week 1 official line-ups: Genoa vs. Inter | OneFootball

Lautaro Martinez and Marcus Thuram lead the way as Inter begin the defence of their Serie A title against a Genoa side short on strikers.

It kicks off at 17.30 UK time (16.30 GMT).

You can follow all the build-up and action as it happens from this match, Parma-Fiorentina, Milan–Torino and Empoli-Monza on the LIVEBLOG.

The 2024-25 Serie A season begins today and the Nerazzurri make this trip without injured Stefan de Vrij, Piotr Zielinski and Tajon Buchanan.

Mehdi Taremi and Marko Arnautovic are also carrying muscular problems, so Lautaro Martinez is thrown straight in from the start, having missed all of pre-season so he could take Argentina to Copa America glory.

Yann Bisseck gets the nod in defence rather than Benjamin Pavard, while Hakan Calhanoglu and Alessandro Bastoni shook off minor muscular fatigue.

Genoa are forced to rebuild after selling Mateo Retegui to Atalanta and Albert Gudmundsson to Fiorentina, losing their two main goal-scorers.

To make matters worse, Caleb Ekuban, David Ankeye and Alan Matturro are injured, so Vitinha and Junior Messias are the only options in attack.

Johan Vasquez is only fit for the bench.

Genoa: Gollini; Vogliacco, Bani, De Winter; Zanoli, Frendrup, Badelj, Malinovskyi, Martin; Messias, Vitinha

Inter: Sommer; Bisseck, Acerbi, Bastoni; Darmian, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Thuram, Lautaro Martinez