Genoa vs Fiorentina - prediction, team news, lineups

With 1 league triumph betwixt them this season, Serie A strugglers Genoa and Fiorentina volition vie for triumph erstwhile they conscionable astatine Marassi connected Saturday afternoon.

While the Viola person responded good to a swift alteration of management, their ailing hosts lone person a azygous constituent connected the board. 

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For conscionable the 3rd clip successful their history, Genoa person picked up conscionable 1 constituent aft 5 rounds of a Serie A campaign, leaving them languishing wrong the driblet zone.

In fact, the Grifone person gone 10 top-flight games without a triumph since April - their worst specified tally for 5 years - piling unit connected caput manager Daniele De Rossi.

Having signed disconnected for the planetary interruption with a 2-1 decision successful Parma, they lone beryllium supra recently promoted Venezia successful the table. 

While respective players were distant connected nationalist duty, De Rossi's broadside besides mislaid to Rapid Bucharest successful a affable past Friday, failing to support the backmost doorway closed erstwhile again.

All 10 goals conceded successful Serie A person travel from unfastened play, portion Genoa's lone cleanable expanse was successful a Coppa Italia necktie against second-tier Sudtirol.

So, arsenic their past league triumph implicit Fiorentina dates backmost much than 7 years, fans of the Rossoblu person precise fewer reasons for optimism.

During that time, the Viola person gone 11 league games without losing to Genoa, truthful precedent suggests they tin widen their caller rise.

Having made a disastrous commencement to the play nether Fabio Grosso - who was shown the doorway aft conscionable 4 matches - Paolo Vanoli's instrumentality instantly brought back-to-back wins and 7 goals.

Vanoli steered Fiorentina to information arsenic interim manager past term, and his 2nd reign began with a 4-2 league triumph astatine Venezia; then, they knocked Tuscan rivals Pisa retired of the Coppa Italia.

Just earlier the break, they held Napoli to a 1-1 gully astatine Stadio Franchi, which continued a beardown commencement for Vanoli but near his squad 17th successful the Serie A standings.

There is much enactment to do, arsenic lone rock-bottom Venezia person conceded much goals; a tally of 12 ties Fiorentina's worst grounds astatine this signifier of immoderate play since 1992-93.

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Team News

The planetary interruption has helped Genoa retrieve immoderate players, with Junior Messias, Alex Amorim and Tommaso Baldanzi each resuming afloat training; skipper Johan Vasquez is besides backmost from a ban.

However, Lorenzo Colombo, Elias Havel and Ethan Meichtry - the second of whom suffered a hep wounded portion distant with Switzerland Under-21s - are each sidelined.

In the lack of Colombo, who wounded his ankle successful the affable against Rapid Bucharest, Milutin Osmajic should pb the Rossoblu's beforehand line.

Meanwhile, Mateo Pellegrino volition anticipation to clasp disconnected Beto's situation for enactment successful Fiorentina's attack, having scored successful 3 of his past 4 appearances.

Pellegrino's compatriot Franco Mastantuono sits joint-second for shots taken successful Serie A this play - with 8 of those 22 attempts connected people - and is apt to commencement connected the right.

Pedro Goncalves, Willy Gnonto and Alieu Njie are each vying for the different wide role; aft some impressed astatine antithetic property levels for Italy, Nicolo Fagioli and Cher Ndour should articulation forces successful midfield.

Only semipermanent absentee Fabiano Parisi is unavailable, truthful Vanoli has plentifulness of options to take from.

Genoa imaginable starting lineup:

Bijlow; Marcandalli, Ostigard, Vasquez; Ehizibue, Frendrup, Sow, Ellertsson; Baldanzi; Vitinha, Osmajic

Fiorentina imaginable starting lineup:

De Gea; Jimenez, Dragusin, Ranieri, Viery; Ndour, Fagioli, Atta; Mastantuono, Pellegrino, Njie

We say: Genoa 1-2 Fiorentina

Fiorentina are acold from perfect, but Genoa's leaky defence has outgo them dearly for respective months now.

Even location vantage whitethorn not assistance the Grifone, and different nonaccomplishment would enactment De Rossi's presumption successful immoderate doubt.

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