Peppe Di Stefano, who spoke to Sky Sport, took stock of Mario Mandzukic's latest condition:
"Mandzukic will start from the bench, both because he has a small ankle problem and because in general he wouldn't have had even 45 minutes in his legs.
"He comes from a year of inactivity from the point of view of the field and therefore will need an adequate athletic condition to live up to what he has always shown here in Italy."