Hello and welcome to Eurosport's coverage of the Derby della Madonnina, on this occasion in a Coppa Italia quarter-final. I'm Ciaran Baynes and I'll be following the match with you.

Good save! Darmian cuts in from the right and feeds Lukaku who does what he does so well, feels the defender behind him and then turn him and get a shot away but Tatarusanu stretches his left foot out and stops his strike.

Sanchez moves the ball wide to Darmian who whips in a low cross that Lukaku just cannot divert towards goal with an outstretched leg.

Bad few minutes for Kjaer, he seems to have hurt his hamstring and Tomori, just signed on-loan from Chelsea, is coming on for him.

Sanchez has Kjaer beaten on the right wing and the Dane fouls him picking up a yellow card.

Borello backheeled to Skriniar who puts in an outswinging cross that Tatarusanu comes out to gather.

So close to an opener. Leao puts in a great inswinging cross from the left that Ibrahimovic rises to beat two men to and Diaz just missed connecting with the ball which itself was a yard away from going in the far post.

Borello puts in a decent cross that Dalot clears well under pressure.

Both sides looking to hit on the counter attack but falling short in the final third thus far.

Perisic gets into the box and puts a dangerous cross in that Kjaer heads away in front of Lukaku.

Nice move from Milan and Leao has a ping from the edge of the box and his effort just a yard wide of the Inter goal

Inter get us underway.

Inter two points behind Milan who are top of Serie A. Both would exchange a win for one in their next game on February 21. Perhaps it will mean this game is more open.

The last time these two met it was dat man Zlatan, the Inter hero biting the hand that fed him for so long, bagging a brace to give Milan a victory after four straight defeats.

Inter in contrast are less depleted. Their changes from the 0-0 draw at Udinese are Aleksandr Kolarov coming in for Alessandro Bastoni, Matteo Darmian coming in for fellow ex-Red Devil Ashley Young, Ivan Perisic replacing Achraf Hakimi (likely pushing Nicolo Barella wide) and Alexis Sanchez in place of Lautaro Martinez being perhaps the most potential game-changing,.

Back to the present day and Stefano Piolo is without the suspended Gianluigi Donnarumma, while Covid has sidelined Matteo Gabbia, Ismael Bennacer and Hakan Calhanoglu, and Pierre Kalulu and Sandro Tonali are injured. He has also opted to rest goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma and Davide Calibria.

Nice to line these guys up and play who would you pick first in the playground or draft.

I go Ronaldo first, but reckon at least six of the next seven would be AC Milan choices in Van Basten, Baresi, Maldini, Kaka, Gullit and Shevchenko - squeezing Matthaus somewhere in there perhaps.

A strange derby when you think of the players who have represented both. Keepers are a bit hard to find but here's an outfield side of those who donned both stripes: Panucci, Helveg, Bonucci, Coco; Seedorf, Pirlo, Viera; Baggio; Ronaldo, Ibrahimovic. And no room for talents like Davids, Vieri or Crespo.

Milan's main man in attack today is Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It gives us an excuse to show this video of when he was playing for Inter and entranced by matching up against his hero, the original Ronaldo, then playing for AC Milan, but previously a hero at Inter of course. It's complicated...but the video's nice.

And this is how AC Milan are lining up...

This is how Inter Milan will line up tonight.