Champions League · Wed 21 Oct, 21:00 CEST
San Siro, Milan
Shakhtar keep the ball and break quickly. Inter are at home and expected to win, which is its own kind of pressure. Pick the eleven, set the plan and play it.
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Our predicted Inter starting XI for Inter vs Shakhtar Donetsk in a 4-3-3: the strongest eleven for each position from the current squad, with injured and unavailable players left out. Squad information as of 26 September 2026. Looking for the Inter lineup today? The confirmed Inter line up is announced about an hour before kick-off; until then, this is the prediction.
No Inter players are ruled out in our squad information as of 26 September 2026.
Disagree with the prediction? Use the lineup builder above to pick your own starting XI and formation, then play the match to see how it goes.
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Inter are predicted to line up in a 4-3-3: Josep Martinez; Federico Dimarco, Alessandro Bastoni, Manuel Akanji, Djed Spence; Nicolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, Curtis Jones; Marcus Thuram, Lautaro Martinez, Luis Henrique. Squad information as of 26 September 2026.
Wednesday 21 October 2026, 21:00 CEST, at San Siro, Milan (Champions League).
No injuries or suspensions reported for Inter as of 26 September 2026.
About an hour before kick-off. Until then this is the predicted Inter line-up, and you can pick your own starting XI on this page and play the match.
A pre-match game. Inter v Shakhtar Donetsk has not been played yet, so there is no real result to match — you choose the Inter eleven, place every player wherever you like, set the approach, and the match runs on the spot.
This is not a prediction game. Nobody is keeping score and there is nothing to get right — the match has not been played yet, so there is no correct answer to find. Pick the eleven you would pick, or the eleven nobody would dare, and see what your team does with it.
This game comes down once the real match has finished. The full simulation — where you take the touchline in a match that really happened and change how it actually ended — lives on MatchRewrite permanently. Browse the clubs.
Before this one kicks off, play the matches that have already happened involving Inter and Shakhtar Donetsk. Each one is the real line-ups and the real result, and you make the calls that decided it.
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