Italy coach Roberto Donadoni has omitted strikers Alessandro del Piero and Filippo Inzaghi from an already depleted squad for the Euro 2008 qualifier with Georgia next Saturday.

Donadoni has been denied the services of suspended skipper Fabio Cannavaro, the FIFA World Player of the Year, as well as World Cup-winning trio Gianluca Zambrotta, Mauro Camoranesi and Simone Perrotta. Alberto Aquilani is also injured.

But he has chosen not to rely on veteran forwards del Piero and Inzaghi for the clash with Georgia in Genoa and the friendly with South Africa in Siena four days later.

Fiorentina midfielder Riccardo Montolivo is called up for the first time while Daniele Bonera and Stefano Mauri are back in favour.

Squad: Buffon (Juventus), Amelia (Livorno), Curci (Roma); Barzagli (Palermo), Bonera, Chiellini (Juventus), Gamberini (Fiorentina), Grosso (Lyon), Oddo, Panucci (Roma); Ambrosini, De Rossi (Roma), Gattuso (AC Milan), Mauri (Lazio), Montolivo (Fiorentina), Pirlo; Di Natale (Udinese), Foggia (Cagliari), Iaquinta (Juventus), Lucarelli (Shakhtar Donetsk), Quagliarella (Udinese), Toni (Bayern Munich).