📏 Form Guide

Fiorentina

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Fiorentina will play in this match following a 0-0 Conference League stalemate vs Viktoria Plzeň.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent games that Fiorentina haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Fiorentina have failed to prevent opponents from scoring in 5 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 9 goals on the way. That kind of trend isn’t assured to follow through here, however.

A look at their previous results shows us that Fiorentina:

• are unbeaten in the league by Genoa in their previous 6 games.
• have not won at home in their last 2 league matches.

Genoa

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Genoa go into this clash following a 1-2 Serie A win against Hellas Verona in their most recent fixture.

In that match, Genoa managed 39% possession and 11 shots on goal with 5 on target. For Genoa, the scorers were Caleb Ekuban (45') and Albert Guðmundsson (58'). Hellas Verona had 12 attempts on goal with 3 of them on target. Federico Bonazzoli (8') was the scorer for Hellas Verona.

Throughout their 6 latest matches, Alberto Gilardino's Genoa have found the back of the net a total of 8 times - yielding them a goals scored per game average of 1.33.

Heading into this contest, Genoa are unbeaten in their last 2 league matches away from home.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head-to-head meetings stretching back to 25/01/2020 shows us that Fiorentina have won 3 of these games & Genoa 0, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

18 goals were scored between the two sides during those clashes, with 14 from La Viola and 4 being from Il Grifone. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The last league meeting between the two was Serie A match day 1 on 19/08/2023 when the final score was Genoa 1-4 Fiorentina.

In that game, Genoa had 32% possession and 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer was Davide Biraschi (58').

On the other side, Fiorentina got 9 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Cristiano Biraghi (5'), Giacomo Bonaventura (11'), Nicólas González (40') and Rolando Mandragora (56') scored.

The referee was Giovanni Ayroldi.

📋 Team News: Fiorentina

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Fiorentina manager Vincenzo Italiano to be concerned with from an otherwise complete group. M'Bala Nzola (Muscle fatigue) is sidelined.

We are thinking that La Viola may well employ a 4-2-3-1 formation this time featuring Pietro Terracciano, Michael Kayode, L. Martinez Quarta, Luca Ranieri, Fabiano Parisi, Giacomo Bonaventura, Alfred Duncan, Jonathan Ikone, Lucas Beltran, Riccardo Sottil and Andrea Belotti.

🗞️ Team News: Genoa

Genoa boss Alberto Gilardino has multiple availability issues to deal with. Vitinha (Leg injury), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Hamstring muscle injury) and Alan Matturro (surgery) are not able to play.

From our viewpoint, Il Grifone might elect for a 3-5-2 lineup by sending out Josep Martinez, Koni De Winter, Mattia Bani, Johan Vasquez, Stefano Sabelli, Morten Frendrup, Milan Badelj, Albert Gudmundsson, Aaron Caricol, Junior Messias and Caleb Ekuban.

⚡ Prediction

We’re thinking that Fiorentina will most probably be able to score a couple when they face Genoa, who could well struggle scoring.

Therefore, we are anticipating a pretty comfortable 2-0 win for Fiorentina at full-time.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Lucas Pereira, 16:03 15/04/2024