The squad numbers for Italy’s upcoming Nations League test away against France have been confirmed, as Fiorentina’s Nicolo Fagioli takes over the prestigious no.10 shirt following Giacomo Raspadori’s withdrawal from the squad.

Roberto Mancini faces the toughest test yet of his second spell in charge of the Italy national team, away against France at the Stade de France in what will be Zinedine Zidane’s first home match in charge of Les Bleues. Kick-off is due at 19.45 BST.

Italy are coming in off the back of a 2-0 defeat at home against Belgium and a morale-boosting 4-1 win away against Turkey on Monday evening. France have beaten both Turkey and France 1-0 away from home in the September-October international break.

As this is a competitive, Nations League fixture, Mancini has had to cut his list of players down to a matchday squad of 23 , leaving Massimo Pessina, Diego Coppola, Daniele Ghilardi, Eddy Koaudio, Alessandro Romano, Rolando Mandragora, Nicolo Cambiaghi and Samuele Inacio at Coverciano for this one.

Honest Ahanor was also cut from the squad ahead of the France match and has instead been made available to Silvio Baldini and the Italy U21s ahead of a crucial European Championship qualifier against Poland on Monday night.

Nicolo Zaniolo and Giacomo Raspadori have also left the squad through injury and have not been replaced.

Federico Dimarco and Bryan Cristante withdrew from the squad at the beginning of the international break and were replaced by Matteo Ruggeri and Samuele Ricci, who could both be involved against France on Friday.

Pre-match reports indicate that it will be a 4-3-3 featuring Michael Kayode and Riccardo Calafiori at full-back with Alessandro Bastoni and either Giorgio Scalvini or Gianluca Mancini at centre-back.