Evening all, and welcome to Empoli v Inter!

I'm looking forward to seeing how Marcelo Brozovic does today. He's a tremendous player, and one Inter will do well to hang onto beyond January, given the state of their finances.

Eeesh! Pushing for a winner, Juventus were caught on the break by Sassuolo and ended up losing 2-1. They're now 13 points off the lead.

Atalanta have consolidated second place by beating Sampdoria 3-1. The clinching goal, scored by Ilicic, was a belter and is worth your time.

Antonio Conte signed Sanchez - and Darmian, Lukaku and Young - from Manchester United. Maybe he was planning to go there after leaving Inter, and he was helping with the clear-out.

Inter, meanwhile, need to rebound from their latest Juveing, the Derby d'Italia stolen from them by Pablo Dybala's 89th minute penalty. They replace Skriniar with D'Ambrosio, Perisic with Di Marco, Calhanoglu with Gagliardini and Dzeko with Sanchez. Remember him?

Empoli, who won 4-2 at Salernitana last time out, leave out Marchizza, Haas and Henderson, replacing them with Parisi, Bajrami and Zurkowski. They play a 4-3-1-2 formation.

Let's have some teams!

If Inter are to make even a pretence of defending their title, they need to win tonight. Milan, who top the table and lead them by seven points, won last night, so they need to likewise tonight. Empoli, meanwhile, are doing alright, 12th in the table, but a win here takes them to eighth, level on points with Juve, who are into injury time with Sassuolo, drawing 1-1. All those takes about how they'd be better off without Ronaldo are looking smart.