Fiorentina and Frosinone named their official lineups for Saturday’s Serie A meeting at 18.30, with Mastantuono in Fiorentina’s starting side and Kean left in the stands. The match opened the Saturday schedule in the 2^ giornata, and the lineup sheet made the first real decision of the afternoon before a ball was kicked.
That is why people were checking Fiorentina Vs Frosinone now: the teams were not being discussed in the abstract, they were being set for the pitch. Fiorentina lined up in a 4-3-3 with De Gea, Jimenez, Dragusin, Pongracic, Valdepenas, Ndour, Oulai Atta, Mastantuono, Pellegrino and Gudmundsson, while Frosinone went with a 4-2-3-1 featuring Palmisani, Oyono, Monterisi, Calvani, Bracaglia, Masini, Calò, Fini, Schmid, Kvernadze and Raimondo. DAZN carried the match.
The detail that drew the eye was Kean. He was named in the story but not in the squad, even as he was described as increasingly close to a move to Como. That leaves the lineup as more than a routine pre-match note: it shows Fiorentina making a public selection call while one of its best-known forwards is effectively on the edge of the picture, present only in the stands and absent from the matchday plan.
Official lineup releases do not explain everything, and this one does not answer whether Kean’s absence was tied to the transfer situation or to something else. What it does show is that the match was about to begin with Fiorentina already leaning on Mastantuono and Frosinone set in their own shape, leaving the next update to come from the pitch at 18.30.
