Fiorentina vs Genoa Live Stream, Predictions

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Fiorentina

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Fiorentina, who won their previous game, will hope for a similar result following a 2-5 Coppa Italia triumph vs SSC Napoli.

In that match, Fiorentina had 52% possession and 17 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Fiorentina, the goals were scored by Dušan Vlahović (41'), Cristiano Biraghi (57'), Lorenzo Venuti (105'), Krzysztof Piątek (108') and Youssef Maleh (119'). SSC Napoli got 14 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Dries Mertens (44') and Andrea Petagna (95') scored for SSC Napoli. The match went to extra time and was won by Fiorentina.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Fiorentina haven’t conceded. The reality is that Fiorentina have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 10 goals in the process.

Going into this one, Fiorentina haven't lost in the league to Genoa in their last 4 matches.

Genoa

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Since being defeated in their last game at the hands of AC Milan in Coppa Italia competition, Genoa will be hoping to turn things around here.

In that game, Genoa managed 39% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Genoa was Leo Østigård (17'). AC Milan had 24 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Olivier Giroud (74'), Rafael Leão (102') and Alexis Saelemaekers (112') scored for AC Milan. The match went to extra time and was won by AC Milan.

It is worth noting that Genoa have made hard work of scoring goals over their last 6 games, contributing the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those matches, Il Grifone have also seen the overall goal tally of their opponents equal 8. We will have to see if that trend will be sustained in this game.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Genoa:

• have not lost to Fiorentina when they have played them away from home in the previous 5 league games. A very good run of results for them.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 9 league games. What a terrible run of away results.

↔️ Head to head

Looking at the statistics for their head to head duels dating back to 26/05/2019, neither club has come out on top overall with Fiorentina winning 1 of those games, Genoa 1 and 4 being drawn after 90 minutes of play.

In all, 10 goals were scored between the two sides in these games, with 5 of them from La Viola and 5 belonging to Il Grifone. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 1.67.

The last league game between these clubs was Serie A match day 4 on 18/09/2021 when it ended Genoa 1-2 Fiorentina.

In that game, Genoa managed 35% possession and 9 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Their only player to score was Domenico Criscito (98').

Fiorentina got 16 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Riccardo Saponara (60') and Giacomo Bonaventura (89') scored.

The referee was Livio Marinelli.

🗞️ Team News: Fiorentina

Lucas Martínez Quarta (Unknown Injury) and Marco Benassi (Unknown Injury) won’t be playing for Fiorentina manager Vincenzo Italiano.

It’s our opinion that La Viola will probably employ a 4-3-3 formation for the game, utilising Pietro Terracciano, Alvaro Odriozola, Nikola Milenkovic, Igor, Cristiano Biraghi, Giacomo Bonaventura, Lucas Torreira, Youssef Maleh, Riccardo Saponara, Dusan Vlahovic and Nicolas Gonzalez.

🗞️ Team News: Genoa

Genoa boss Andriy Shevchenko has some current player fitness concerns. Valon Behrami (Unknown Injury), Hernani (Corona virus), Domenico Criscito (Calf Problems), Yayah Kallon (Unknown Injury) and Nikola Maksimovic (Strain) will not be playing here. Johan Vásquez cannot play in this game through suspension.

We reckon that Il Grifone appear most likely to play in a 3-5-2 lineup, going with Salvatore Sirigu, Leo Oestigard, Kelvin Yeboah, Silvan Hefti, Zinho Vanheusden, Stefano Sturaro, Milan Badelj, Manolo Portanova, Riccardo Calafiori, Nicolo Rovella and Mattia Destro.

🧠 Prediction

In our opinion, Fiorentina will most probably create the chances to score more than once when they play Genoa, who will be up against it scoring.

We can therefore see a controlled 2-0 win for Fiorentina at the conclusion of the game.

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

Victor Martins, 07:30 13/01/2022