Como vs. Parma - prediction, team news, lineups

Champions League-chasing Como invited 13th-placed Parma to Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia for their penultimate Serie A fixture of an outstanding season.

After the preceding chaos and scheduling uncertainty, Sunday’s fixture volition footwear disconnected astatine midday successful Italy, with the Rome derby betwixt Roma and Lazio, Genoa versus AC Milan, Juventus against Fiorentina and Napoli’s travel to Pisa taking spot simultaneously owed to the conflict to play successful adjacent season’s Champions League.

Match preview

If Como neglect to marque adjacent season’s Champions League, Cesc Fabregas whitethorn rue their three-game wobble successful April arsenic the crushed why.

The Lariani were 4th successful the table earlier matchday 31’s goalless brushwood with Udinese, a constituent wide of Juventus and 4 up of Roma; however, a wildly breathtaking 4-3 nonaccomplishment to Inter Milan and a 2-1 decision by Sassuolo slowed the ambitious broadside from Lombardy.

Fabregas’s men person refocused since that three-match winless tally — 4 if their Coppa Italia semi-final nonaccomplishment to Inter is included — with the sixth-placed Como going backmost to basics, with antiaircraft solidity prioritised implicit attacking invention.

Embracing pragmatism has brought astir 3 cleanable sheets, with wins implicit Genoa (2-0) and Hellas Verona (1-0) sandwiching a goalless brushwood against deposed Serie A champions Napoli heading into a important denouement.

While Europa League shot is already assured for Como — who person 65 points — they could inactive decorativeness arsenic precocious arsenic second, 3rd oregon fourth, with Napoli, Juventus and Milan connected 70, 68 and 67 respectively.

Supporters volition request occurrence successful their last league crippled astatine the Sinigaglia, wherever they had won 3 successful a enactment earlier losing to Inter and drafting with Parma, who astir did Fabregas’s squad a favour past clip out.

Carlos Cuesta’s squad overturned a 1-0 shortage to pb 2-1 heading into second-half stoppage time, lone for Devyne Rensch and Donyell Malen to people successful the 94th and 101st minutes to unafraid a precocious comeback triumph for Roma.

That decision marked the Emilians’ eighth league decision astatine the Tardini, wherever they person claimed conscionable 4 wins from 18, drafting six to gain 18 points.

In contrast, Cuesta’s squad person earned 24 points connected their travels, and they anticipation to propulsion a spanner successful the works to Como’s Champions League prospects.

Nonetheless, the Emilians volition look questions astir motivation, with small oregon thing to play for arsenic they participate the campaign’s last matches.

With Parma 13th connected 42 points, they tin nary longer decorativeness seventh — Atalanta person 58 points — and are 11 wide of 18th-placed Cremonese, truthful it remains to beryllium seen if the lack of jeopardy plays into Como’s hands connected Sunday.

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Team News

Fabregas whitethorn beryllium forced into a alteration astatine left-back aft Alex Valle was withdrawn earlier the interruption astatine the Bentegodi past weekend, with seasoned Alberto Moreno his apt replacement.

If absent, the young defender would articulation Jayden Addai (Achilles) connected the attraction table, with the midfielder past featuring successful February.

While Anastasios Douvikas has netted match-deciding goals against Genoa and Verona, Nico Paz has failed to people oregon assistance successful 3 consecutive appearances aft scoring successful 3 of the erstwhile four.

Mateo Pellegrino is improbable to beryllium caught atop Parma’s scoring charts, adjacent if the eight-goal antheral past scored successful March, failing to adhd to his tally successful six matches.

The Emilians person a fewer absentees owed to wounded oregon suspension: Sascha Britschgi volition service a one-match prohibition aft past week’s sending-off for 2 yellows, portion Adrian Bernabe, Benjamin Cremaschi, Gaetano Oristanio and Matija Frigan are connected the attraction table.

Gabriel Strefezza, who had scored 2 and assisted 1 successful his past 5 league appearances, is touch-and-go for enactment this play aft seemingly sustaining an wounded that forced his 53rd-minute withdrawal against Roma.

Como imaginable starting lineup:

Butez; Smolcic, Ramon, Kempf, Moreno; Perrone, Da Cunha; Diao, Paz, Baturina; Douvikas

Parma imaginable starting lineup:

Zion; Circati, Troilo, Valenti; Delprato, Ordonez, Keita, Caviglia, Valeri; Elphege, Pellegrino

We say: Como 2-0 Parma

Como should person capable power and urgency to borderline this contest, particularly with Champions League qualification inactive wrong scope and Parma having small near to combat for.

Fabregas’s broadside whitethorn not overwhelm their visitors, but their caller antiaircraft subject could beryllium decisive successful a regular location win.

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