Hello and welcome to Eurosport's LIVE text commentary of the Coppa Italia semi-final first-leg contest between Inter and Juventus. We will have the team news for you in a moment. Kick-off is now just an hour away at San Siro!

Kick-off! Plenty of laughs and smiles shared between officials, Handanovic and Buffon at the coin toss, as Juve get us underway!

FIVE minutes until kick-off! It's Inter versus Juventus in this first-leg semi-final Coppa Italia encounter at San Siro. It's LIVE and it's NEXT!

Pre-match stat: Juventus have kept a clean sheet in 11 of their last 15 matches in the Coppa Italia.

Pirlo on the Serie A defeat to Inter (via Tuttomercatoweb): "It taught a lot. It taught that when we are not on the right track, we are not ourselves. From there we started again with great performances. We were lucky enough to immediately meet Napoli who immediately raised our attention. However, we must not settle down because we are only at the beginning of the second leg and we still have many games to play.”

Conte on the absence of Lukaku: "It’s not the first time Romelu is missing, there will be Alexis and Lautaro. Romelu is fine, he responded well with two goals to Benevento. Now he will be able to rest and prepare for the next Serie A match.”

Antonio Conte (via Rai Sport): "There must be great respect for a very strong team. We’ll need to make a great game. The qualification will be played over 180 minutes as it happened last season with Napoli, when we lost at home 1-0 and then drew 1-1 at San Paolo. We must try to do our best, we must be good."

Did you know? Only three of the last 19 meetings between Inter Milan and Juventus have been won by the visiting side.

Juventus have recorded four consecutive clean sheets since that chastening defeat to Inter - and have even won a trophy! So they come into this game in pretty good shape and will be confident of revenge. They meet Inter again next Tuesday with the winner set to meet Napoli or Atalanta in the Coppa Italia final.

These sides met just two weeks ago, with Inter strolling to a comfortable victory in Serie A.

For Juventus, Alex Sandro gets his first start since recovering from coronavirus. Dejan Kulusevski partners Cristiano Ronaldo in attack, but Aaron Ramsey and Paulo Dybala are injured. There are also starts for Matthijs de Ligt and Gigi Buffon.

The Nerazzurri are without the suspended Romelu Lukaku and Achraf Hakimi, so Alexis Sanchez steps up to partner Lautaro Martinez in attack, while Matteo Darmian comes in at full-back, with Ashley Young set to operate as a winger.

Inter XI: Handanovic, Skriniar, De Vrij, Bastoni, Darmian, Barella, Brozovic, Vidal, Young, Martinez, Sanchez.. subs: Padelli, Radu, Gagliardini, Vecino, Kolarov, Sensi, Ranocchia, Perisic, Eriksen, D’Ambrosio, Pinamonti /// Juventus XI: Buffon, Cuadrado, Demiral, De Ligt, Sandro, McKennie, Bentancur, Rabiot, Bernardeschi, Ronaldo, Kulusevski.. subs: Szczesny, Pinsoglio, Chiellini, Danilo, Bonucci, Dragusin, Frabotta, Arthur, Chiesa, Fagioli, Peeters, Morata.