Preview: Monza vs. Fiorentina - prediction, team news, lineups

Having started to gaffe down the Serie A standings, Fiorentina volition effort to get backmost connected way by beating rock-bottom Monza erstwhile the 2 teams conscionable connected Monday.

The Viola were good beaten connected location turf successful their archetypal fixture of 2025, portion their ailing hosts started the caller twelvemonth arsenic they finished the last.

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After a streak of 8 consecutive wins successful the Italian apical flight, Fiorentina person mislaid 3 of their past 4 Serie A matches - drafting the different - portion conceding 8 goals.

Most recently, they were beaten 3-0 by rubric contenders Napoli successful Florence, which saw them endure consecutive league defeats astatine Stadio Franchi for the archetypal clip since precocious 2023.

Though the Viola are inactive in the premix for a top-four finish, their scintillating streak has rather intelligibly tailed off, truthful Raffaele Palladino volition beryllium keen to instrumentality vantage of 2 reasonably benignant fixtures successful the abstraction of a week.

Before playing big to a faltering Torino broadside adjacent weekend, Fiorentina indispensable sojourn Monza, wherever Palladino started his elder coaching career.

He managed the Brianzoli successful 70 Serie A matches, doubly keeping them afloat successful the apical tier earlier specified awesome enactment caught the oculus of clubs higher up the Calcio nutrient chain.

Now, helium returns to the country of galore blessed memories, hoping to assertion maximum points and deepen his aged club's woes.

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After a melodramatic 2-2 gully successful September's reverse fixture, Monza person faced Fiorentina 7 times betwixt Serie A and Serie B, winning lone once.

Only a stoppage-time leveller from Robin Gosens denied them triumph erstwhile the sides met successful Tuscany earlier this season, and since past points person been hard to travel by for the Biancorossi.

Although the pugnacious determination was taken to sack Palladino's successor Alessandro Nesta and bring successful Salvatore Bocchetti past month, the squad person failed to respond to a caller look successful the dugout, remaining rooted to the ft of the table.

After ending 2024 with achy 2-1 decision to Parma, erstwhile conceding a precocious extremity again outgo them dearly, the Brianza-based nine were beaten by different relegation rival past clip out.

Despite starring done an aboriginal Gianluca Caprari penalty, Bocchetti's broadside fto that pb slip, and erstwhile Danilo D'Ambrosio was past sent disconnected they could not retrieve and yet slumped to a 2-1 defeat.

Including a tame Coppa Italia exit astatine the commencement of December, Monza person present mislaid each of their past six games, leaving them with a immense upland to ascent during the 2nd fractional of the season.

History suggests they whitethorn already beryllium doomed: implicit the past 20 years, lone 2 of 13 teams that earned 10 points oregon less astatine the halfway signifier person survived - Crotone successful 2017 and Cagliari successful 2008.

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Team News

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Fiorentina should person a afloat squad disposable connected Monday evening, including caller signing Michael Folorunsho, who has conscionable joined connected indebtedness from Napoli. Fellow caller lad Nicolas Valentini should commencement connected the bench.

Raffaele Palladino could displacement backmost to his palmy 4-2-3-1 enactment aft selecting a three-man defence to look Napoli, with Albert Gudmundsson - present recovered from an ankle occupation - and erstwhile Monza prima Andrea Colpani some being recalled.

Sure to commencement up front, Moise Kean is the Viola's apical scorer crossed each competitions with 15 goals this term.

Meanwhile, Monza's squad person managed conscionable 17 Serie A strikes betwixt them truthful far, and it remains to beryllium seen whether Milan Djuric volition beryllium brought backmost successful to pb the hosts' onslaught connected Monday.

Otherwise, Dany Mota and Gianluca Caprari - the second of whom has scored 5 top-flight goals against Fiorentina - would spearhead a misfiring beforehand line, perchance supported by Daniel Maldini.

Georgios Kyriakopoulos could instrumentality aft missing 2 games done injury, and Pablo Mari is backmost from a ban; however, Danilo D'Ambrosio indispensable service a suspension and midfield duo Matteo Pessina and Roberto Gagliardini are inactive sidelined.

Monza imaginable starting lineup:
Turati; Izzo, Mari, Carboni; Pereira, Sensi, Bondo, Birindelli; Caprari, Maldini; Djuric

We say: Monza 1-2 Fiorentina

Fiorentina tin kickstart their run with a triumph against Serie A's last-placed club, who indispensable beryllium debased connected confidence.

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