UECL Final line-ups: Olympiacos vs. Fiorentina | OneFootball

Fiorentina start Andrea Belotti upfront with support from Nico Gonzalez and Giacomo Bonaventura in the Conference League Final against Ayoub El Kaabi’s Olympiacos.

It kicks off at the AEK Arena in Athens at 20.00 UK time (19.00 GMT).

You can follow all the build-up and action as it happens on the LIVEBLOG.

This is an opportunity for redemption after Vincenzo Italiano’s men lost last season’s Final 2-1 to West Ham United.

Many of those players remain the same and they have extra motivation, wanting to win for director Joe Barone, who died in March.

Riccardo Sottil is the only injury absentee, with Gaetano Castrovilli not on the UEFA list.

Bonaventura is given a free role, able to push forward as a trequartista in a 4-2-3-1 or deeper in a 4-3-3, with Nico Gonzalez and Christian Kouame flanking Belotti.

Nikola Milenkovic is preferred to Luca Ranieri in central defence.

Olympiacos started the campaign in the Europa League group phase, dropping down to the Conference League in February.

They are on their third coach of the season and a familiar one to Italian football, because Jose Luis Mendilibar was the Sevilla coach when beating Jose Mourinho’s Roma in the Europa League Final last year.

El Kaabi is the top scorer in the tournament with 10 goals in eight games, including five in the semi-final alone against Aston Villa.

Left-back Francisco Ortega returns to the starting XI a month after injury.

Although this is the stadium of their rivals AEK Athens, the Final is still hosted in their home city, so Olympiacos do have an advantage there.

If Fiorentina win, then they qualify for the Europa League and Torino enter the Conference League, having finished ninth in Serie A.

Olympiacos vs. Fiorentina line-ups

Olympiacos: Tzolakis; Rodinei, Retsos, David Carmo, Ortega; Chiquinho, Iborra, Hezze; Podence, El Kaabi, Fortounis

Olympiacos bench: Paschalakis, Papadoudis, Andre Horta, El-Arabi, Alexandropoulos, Quini, Masouras, Joao Carvalho, Jovetic, Richards, Apostolopoulos, Ntoi

Fiorentina: Terracciano; Dodo, Milenkovic, Martínez Quarta, Biraghi; Bonaventura, Arthur; Mandragora; Nico Gonzalez, Belotti, Kouamé

Fiorentina bench: Christensen, Lopez, Beltran, Ikone, Ranieri, Nzola, Infantino, Faraoni, Duncan, Kayode, Parisi, Barak

Ref: Soares Dias (POR)