Hellas Verona vs Como - prediction, team news, lineups

Now trailing down successful Serie A's choky top-four contest, Como simply indispensable triumph Sunday's lunchtime kickoff against lowly Hellas Verona.

While the Lariani inactive harbour dreams of the Champions League, Verona's relegation was confirmed astatine the extremity of past month.

Match preview

Three consecutive defeats successful the mediate of April derailed what promised to beryllium an historical run for big-spending Como, but they are inactive successful the combat for a top-four finish.

The Lombardy nine mislaid to Inter Milan successful the Coppa Italia semi-finals, soon aft suffering a 4-3 league decision against the aforesaid opponents, with a 2-1 reverse to Sassuolo sandwiched between.

Though they bounced backmost by beating Genoa, the Lariani were past held to a gully by Napoli, arsenic Cesc Fabregas shook hands with his erstwhile brag Antonio Conte connected a goalless stalemate for the 2nd clip this season.

That served different stroke to Como's pursuit of Champions League qualification: they way fourth-placed Juventus by 3 points with 3 rounds remaining, portion Roma person moved supra them into fifth. 

Just erstwhile a spot astatine Europe's apical array came wrong touching distance, Cesc's men person lone won 1 of their past 5 league fixtures - previously, they had won 5 connected the spin.

Still, determination are plentifulness of positives to bespeak connected up of this week's duty successful Verona, wherever triumph would warrant continental shot for adjacent season.

Paying testament to their front-foot attack to defending, Como person conceded a league-low 28 goals successful Serie A; for context, lone Champions League finalists Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain person shipped less crossed Europe's apical 5 leagues.

Furthermore, the Biancoblu person won astir fractional of their league matches, including a 3-1 occurrence successful October's reverse fixture.

That was 1 of 21 defeats Verona person suffered truthful far, and they are already bound for Serie B.

After surviving by the tegument of their teeth for astir of the past 7 seasons, Hellas person yet tally retired of luck, and interim manager Paolo Sammarco volition steer the vessel arsenic it yet sinks.

His squad person picked up conscionable 2 points from their past 7 matches - lone scoring doubly successful the process - though some person travel during the past fortnight.

With the unit disconnected and relegation inevitable, Verona followed a 0-0 location gully against Lecce with an unexpected effect successful Turin past weekend.

Riding their luck astatine respective stages, the Gialloblu adjacent seized a daze pb done Kieran Bowie, but they were incapable to bent connected for a first-ever Serie A distant triumph implicit Juventus.

A 1-1 gully did instrumentality them 2 points wide of rock-bottom Pisa, and each that remains is to debar collecting the woody spoon aboriginal this month.

Hellas Verona Serie A form:

L L L L D D

Como Serie A form:

W D L L W D

Como signifier (all competitions):

D L L L W D

Team News

While Jayden Addai remains the sole sanction connected Como's wounded list, Spanish centre-back Jacobo Ramon indispensable besides miss Sunday's crippled owed to suspension.

Marc-Oliver Kempf is his astir apt replacement, but fewer - if immoderate - different changes are expected.

Set to commencement successful attack, Tasos Douvikas and Nico Paz are the Lariani's joint-top league scorers. With 12 goals apiece, they lone way Inter brace Marcus Thuram and Lautaro Martinez successful Serie A's Capocannoniere rankings.

Before heading to Stadio Bentegodi, Paz has scored 4 goals successful 7 distant games this calendar year; the Argentinian prima has besides struck 5 times from extracurricular the container this season.

Like Douvikas, Verona's Suat Serdar recovered the nett successful October's reverse fixture, but the German midfielder present features connected a agelong lack list.

Daniel Mosquera has undergone genu country and apical scorer Gift Orban was dropped aft a nationalist altercation with a supporter; Hellas are besides missing Armel Bella-Kotchap, Cheikh Niasse and Daniel Oyegoke. 

In amended quality for the location side, Nicolas Valentini tin instrumentality aft serving a one-match prohibition against Juventus.

Hellas Verona imaginable starting lineup:

Montipo; Edmundsson, Nelsson, Frese; Belghali, Akpa Akpro, Gagliardini, Bernede, Bradaric; Suslov; Bowie

Como imaginable starting lineup:

Butez; Smolcic, Carlos, Kempf, Valle; Perrone, Da Cunha; Diao, Paz, Baturina; Douvikas

We say: Hellas Verona 0-2 Como 

Though they defied expectations to contradict Juve past weekend, Verona are inactive successful a atrocious state, having lone won erstwhile astatine the Bentegodi this season.

That tally volition not summation connected Sunday, arsenic Como boast a potent onslaught and are hopeless to support their Champions League hopes alive. 

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