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Fiorentina vs Genoa Prediction & Betting tips
Until Friday, the game between Fiorentina and Genoa was on the brink. Viola coach Cesare Prandelli tested positive on Wednesday and his team was then placed in quarantine. Only three negative tests on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday showed that the 63-year-old was only false positive. The isolation was canceled immediately and the match can go up as planned.
In the run-up to the match between Fiorentina and Genoa, the odds of the bookmakers are clearly pointing towards the home side, as the odds comparison of the betting base shows.
A quite daring assessment, as we think. After all, things have been anything but good for both teams in this basement duel. The Rossoblu only won one of their nine league games. The Fiorentina only got a three more. In addition, ten of the last 18 league games between the two teams ended in a draw.
Fiorentina:
The ACF Fiorentina landed in tenth place in the final table in the summer and once again missed the desired qualification for a European competition. Too little for the Gigliati (in German: the lilies), who, in addition to two Scudettos, once won the European Cup Winners’ Cup in 1961.
Nevertheless, Giuseppe Iachini, who only took over the violets in December 2019, was allowed to remain in the coaching office. After a catastrophic false start in Serie A, his days on November 8, 2020 were numbered. Cesare Prandelli took over, under which both league games were lost without their own goal.
In Serie A, there are currently four winless games in a row in which Fiorentina did not score a single goal. Only at the 0-0 in Parma there was at least one counter, with which a break in the table was of course not achieved.
The Gigliati in December are accordingly groundbreaking weeks when the game against Genoa is followed by home games against Sassuolo and Hellas Verona in addition to the blasts against Atalanta and Juve. It is clear that the team from Tuscany needs points to shake off the crisis. After all, there have never been just eight points from the first nine games since the introduction of the three-point rule.
At least in the run-up to the game between Fiorentina and Genoa, the odds of the bookmakers clearly pointed towards the Prandelli team.
After all, Rossoblu is now an opponent in Florence who could not win any of his last 22 away games in Serie A. In the already mentioned point sharing – Fiorentina has won only one of the last nine duels with Genoa in six draws – there can be no question of a favorite opponent.
Genoa:
The Genoa Cricket and Football Club, Genua CFC for short, is definitely one of the Italian flagships of the 20th century. The oldest still existing football club in Italy won the Scudetto nine times, but has been waiting for championship number ten since the 1923/24 season.
The Grifone (in German: the Griffins) only had something to celebrate on the last day of the season, namely the mostly tight relegation. Also this summer the Rossoblu remained as table-17. with only four points ahead of the relegation places.
It is all the more sobering for those involved that only the relegation battle is on the agenda again. The Grifone collected only five out of a possible 27 points, occupying the penultimate place in the table with only one league win and already three points behind the saving bank, where Fiorentina is currently ranked.
Accordingly, the traditional club, which spent almost 40 million euros on expensive new signings this summer, could get back in one fell swoop with an away win in Tuscany. However, the Ligurians come to Florence with a desperate record of four defeats in a row.
Altogether there are even eight league games in a row without a win, which is also due to the weak offensive performance of the Grifone. Rolando Maran’s men only scored eight league goals in nine games. Genoa is the only team that has so far scored all goals from the game and has never stabbed at dormant balls.
Judging by the fact that the home side are not too keen on scoring, it is not surprising that some experts at Fiorentina against Genoa favor the tip on the goalless draw. In fact, there is a lot of value in the tip on the tie in this game. Ten of the last 18 league games between the two teams have ended in a draw. In the measuring room since 2011/12, no other Serie A match has a higher draw rate than this.
Fiorentina vs Genoa head to head matches
25.01.20 SA Fiorentina Genoa 0 : 0
01.09.19 SA Genoa Fiorentina 2 : 1
26.05.19 SA Fiorentina Genoa 0 : 0
29.12.18 SA Genoa Fiorentina 0 : 0
06.05.18 SA Genoa Fiorentina 2 : 3