Genoa vs Cagliari Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Genoa

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Genoa will be hoping for a better result after the 0-1 Serie A defeat in their last game at the hands of Lazio.

In that game, Genoa had 39% possession and 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Lazio got 13 attempts on goal with 1 on target. Luis Alberto (67') scored for Lazio.

It has not been often in recent games that Genoa have shown defensive steel. In fact, Genoa have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, shipping 7 goals during that time. That sort of pattern isn’t assured to be continued into this match, of course.

Leading up to this clash, Genoa:

• have left without a victory over Cagliari in their previous 3 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 3 matches in the league.

Cagliari

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In their previous game, Cagliari drew 2-2 in the Serie A tie with Juventus.

In that game, Cagliari had 26% possession and 9 shots on goal with 4 on target. For Cagliari, the scorers were Gianluca Gaetano (30'), Yerry Mina (36') and Alberto Dossena (87' Own goal). For their opponents, Juventus got 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Dušan Vlahović (61') was the scorer for Juventus.

Looking at their form, and Cagliari have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals in total. In defence, Cagliari have clearly had some problems.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Cagliari:

• have not registered a win against Genoa when having played them away from home in the previous 8 league matches. A really bad run.
• are without a win away from home in their last 2 league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

A look at their prior head-to-head meetings going back to 22/05/2021 tells us that Genoa have won 3 of these games & Cagliari 1, with the tally of drawn results being 2.

A total of 10 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 6 of them from Il Grifone and 4 being from Casteddu / Rossoblu. That is an average goals per game value of 1.67.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Serie A match day 11 on 05/11/2023 when the final score was Cagliari 2-1 Genoa.

On that occasion, Cagliari had 40% possession and 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. The goals were scored by Nicolas Viola (48') and Gabriele Zappa (69').

At the other end, Genoa had 8 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. Albert Guðmundsson (51') was the scorer.

The referee was Marco Guida.

📰 Team News: Genoa

Mattia Bani (muscular problems), Vitinha (Leg injury), Junior Messias (muscular problems), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Hamstring muscle injury) and Alan Matturro (surgery) are unavailable for Genoa gaffer Alberto Gilardino.

We are thinking that Il Grifone will probably use the 3-5-2 formation for the game, handing starts to Josep Martinez, Alessandro Vogliacco, Koni De Winter, Johan Vásquez, Stefano Sabelli, Morten Frendrup, Albert Gudmundsson, Milan Badelj, Aaron Martin, Mateo Retegui and Caleb Ekuban.

ℹ️ Team News: Cagliari

Cagliari boss Claudio Ranieri has multiple availability issues to deal with. Andrea Petagna (Calf injury), Marco Mancosu (Knee surgery) and Leonardo Pavoletti (Ankle sprain) are not able to play. Zito Luvumbo cannot play in this game through suspension.

We’re of the thinking that Casteddu / Rossoblu will likely begin the game with a 3-5-2 formation by sending out Simone Scuffet, P. Chatzidiakos, Yerry Mina, Alberto Dossena, Nahitán Nández, Antoine Makoumbou, Gianluca Gaetano, I. Suleman Kakari, Tommaso Augello, Eldor Shomurodov and Gianluca Lapadula.

🧠 Prediction

For this match, we think that Cagliari have the ability to get a goal against this Genoa team, although that probably won’t quite be as many as they will have scored against them.

We’re tipping both teams to score in a 2-1 victory for Genoa at the end of the 90 minutes. There shouldn’t be much in it, either way.

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

Andre Moura, 00:10 26/04/2024