Good evening and welcome to LIVE coverage of Inter v Catania at the Giuseppe Meazza in Milan... Kick-off is at 19:45 UK time!

Both sides getting forward inside the opening two minutes... Nagatomo with a run down the right for Inter and Barrientos with a surge forward for Catania. Wesley Sneijder, incidentally, on the bench for Inter tonight...

KICK-OFF. Catania get the game going...

Kick-off imminent. The teams are out, the coin's being tossed and we'll be underway shortly...

Catania have won three of their last four league games, and have lost just one of the last six. Vincenzo Montella’s side have also scored in each of their last seven league games.

Inter have picked up just a point from their last six Serie A fixtures, and have lost the last four without scoring a single goal. Ranieri's side are on a four-defeat run for the first time since 2004, while this is the first time since 1987 that the Nerazzurri haven’t scored for four games in a row.

Just a few minutes away from kick-off now, and a couple of stats to keep you going... There hasn't been a draw between these sides in their last 12 Serie A meetings, Inter lead the balance by 10 wins to Catania's two. Those two wins for Catania have come however in the last four meetings between the sides.

CATANIA: Carrizo; Motta, Legrottaglie, Spolli, Marchese; Izco, Lodi, Almiron; Gomez, Bergessio, Barrientos...

TEAMS ARE IN... INTER: Julio Cesar; Nagatomo, Samuel, Lucio, Zanetti; Faraoni, Cambiasso, Palombo, Forlan; Pazzini, Milito...

Vincenzo Montella's Catania side are just three points behind Inter in the Serie A table going into this encounter...

Here's what Ranieri has said in the lead-up to tonight's game: "I do not see this as an ‘in or out’ game. I have the full faith of the club and am determined to do well. I don’t feel that I am sitting an exam. When I arrived, the situation was even more critical. We had our backs to the wall, but I was just as positive and determined as I am now."

Inter boss Claudio Ranieri may be trying to play it cool but this is a big, big game for the Nerazzurri. They come into this one off the back of five league defeats in a row, and 18 points off league leaders and bitter rivals AC Milan...