Juventus vs Hellas Verona - prediction, team news, lineups

Hoping to support their chemoreceptor successful beforehand arsenic Serie A's top-four combat nears its finale, Juventus volition big lowly Hellas Verona connected Sunday evening.

Following last week's bore gully with AC Milan, Juve person a three-point pb successful the contention for Champions League qualification; meanwhile, Verona are staring relegation consecutive successful the face.

Match preview

Juventus tin astir scope retired and interaction their spot astatine Europe's apical table, having taken vantage of caller slips from chap contenders Como and Roma to found a pb successful the contention for 4th place.

Yet, with 4 rounds remaining, conscionable 8 points abstracted 5 teams down champions-elect Inter Milan, truthful it could spell close down to the wire.

As a result, Juve indispensable instrumentality vantage of a comparatively casual run-in, arsenic they volition look Lecce, Fiorentina and metropolis rivals Torino - who they person dominated for respective decades - aft tackling Verona.

Luciano Spalletti's broadside person surely deed signifier astatine the close time, winning 5 of their past 7 league fixtures portion conceding conscionable 1 goal; past week's 0-0 gully astatine San Siro besides made it 9 games unbeaten crossed each competitions.

After shutting retired Milan, the Bianconeri person kept 4 consecutive cleanable sheets, and since Spalletti's transformative accomplishment successful November, they person faced the fewest shots connected people successful Serie A.

Now acceptable to big 1 of the league's slightest effectual attacks, Juventus person besides mislaid conscionable 1 their past 21 top-flight matches connected location turf.

Furthermore, the Turin nine person won six of the past 8 league meetings with Verona, portion racking up a 13-3 aggregate scoreline.

Though they fought each the mode to the last whistle, last week's goalless gully with Lecce virtually condemned Verona to dropping retired of Italy's apical flight. 

Leaving themselves with conscionable 4 games to overturn a 10-point deficit, Hellas would beryllium mathematically relegated by decision connected Sunday evening - if it adjacent gets that far. 

Whatever happens astatine the Allianz Stadium, a triumph for Lecce connected Friday oregon Cremonese connected Monday would corroborate the Scaligeri's 10th demotion to Serie B.

A fixture successful the apical tier for the past 8 years, they person been surviving by the tegument of their teeth for respective seasons, and interim manager Paolo Sammarco volition steer the vessel arsenic it yet sinks.

His squad person picked up a azygous constituent from their past six games - scoring conscionable 1 extremity successful the process - and lone 2 clubs person suffered much defeats crossed Europe's apical 5 leagues this term. 

As Verona person yet to triumph distant to Juventus successful Serie A, losing 29 of 34 erstwhile meetings, past suggests they volition beryllium enactment retired of their misery this weekend.

Juventus Serie A form:

W D W W W D

Hellas Verona Serie A form:

L L L L L D

Team News

Only Juan Cabal and Arkadiusz Milik are ruled retired for Juventus, arsenic attacking stars Dusan Vlahovic and Kenan Yildiz are acceptable to beryllium passed acceptable for work connected Sunday evening.

The second - who has posted 16 extremity involvements this play - has been hampered by an ongoing genu problem, restricting the Turkey planetary to cameo roles successful his past 2 outings.

Over the past 2 campaigns, Juve's win-rate drops by 36% and they mean 0.6 less goals per crippled erstwhile Yildiz does not start, but specified fittingness struggles could spot Jeremie Boga capable successful again.

Meanwhile, Verona's apical scorer Gift Orban has failed to find the nett since January, and helium was dropped aft an ugly altercation with a protagonist past month.

Therefore, Sammarco volition astir apt brace Kieron Bowie with either Tomas Suslov oregon Amin Sarr; chap guardant Daniel Mosquera has undergone season-ending genu surgery.

Hellas are besides missing semipermanent absentee Suat Serdar, positive Armel Bella-Kotchap, Daniel Oyegoke and Cheikh Niasse, portion Nicolas Valentini indispensable service a suspension.

Juventus imaginable starting lineup:

Di Gregorio; Kalulu, Bremer, Kelly, Cambiaso; Thuram, Locatelli; Conceicao, McKennie, Boga; David

Hellas Verona imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Juventus 3-0 Hellas Verona 

A operation of Juve's rock-solid defence and Verona's goal-shy onslaught should marque for an uneven contention - it could beryllium a stroll for the Bianconeri.

Having ne'er won a top-flight distant crippled against Juventus, yet different decision volition yet consign Hellas to Serie B. 

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