| | League position: | 19 | | Home league form: | LLXL | | Overall league form: | LLLLXXLL | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
| | | Line-ups | | Jordan PICKFORD | 7 | 1 | 6½ | Claudio BRAVO | | Ignazio ABATE | 6½ | 2 | 6½ | Tin JEDVAJ | | Raphaël GUERREIRO | 7 | 3 | 8 | Yuri ZHIRKOV | | Marco REUS | 7½ | 4 | 7½ | Lassana DIARRA | | Leonardo BONUCCI | 7½ | 5 | 6½ | Gerard PIQUÉ | | Jonathan TAH | 7 | 6 | 6½ | THIAGO Emiliano SILVA(c) | | IAGO Falqué | 7 | 7 | 7 | Josip BASIC | | Diego LLORENTE | 6 | 8 | 7½ | Henrikh MKHITARYAN | | (p)Luka KRAJNC | 6 | 9 | 6½ | Mario BALOTELLI(p) | | (c,f)Migjen BASHA | 6½ | 10 | 6 | Ogenyi ONAZI(f) | | Michael OLAITAN | 6 | 11 | 6½ | Ezequiel LAVEZZI | | Manager | | | Mattia DE SCIGLIO | | 12 | | Eliaquim MANGALA | | Igor AKINFEEV | | 13 | | Blair LOCHHEAD | | Angelo OGBONNA | | 14 | | Ezequiel GARAY | | Atsuto UCHIDA | | 15 | | Adnan JANUZAJ | | Patrice EVRÀ | | 16 | | Moubarak BOUSSOUFA |
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| | | | League position: | 6 | | Away league form: | LLXW | | Overall league form: | WWLXLWWX | | Formation: | 4-3-3 |
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