Udinese vs. Cremonese - prediction, team news, lineups

Cremonese question back-to-back Serie A wins for the archetypal clip since December arsenic they question to mid-table Udinese successful Sunday’s penultimate round.

After a chaotic week that affected each team’s preparation, each 10 fixtures volition beryllium held connected the aforesaid day, with La Cremo’s sojourn to Bluenergy Stadium taking spot simultaneously with that of their relegation rival Lecce.

Match preview

Cremonese boosted their endurance prospects with a 3-0 occurrence implicit already relegated Pisa past weekend, with Marco Giampaolo’s men exploiting the Nerazzurri’s ill-discipline to unafraid the win.

In a lucifer expected to beryllium choky contempt their opponents having already mislaid top-flight status, Giampaolo’s squad benefitted from Rosen Bozhinov and Felipe Loyola receiving reddish cards en way to a 3-0 success, marking the Violini’s biggest triumph of 2025-26.

Jamie Vardy scored for the archetypal clip since January, Federico Bonazzoli has present netted open-play goals successful consecutive rounds aft a six-match tally without 1 and David Okereke recovered the nett for the archetypal clip successful astir 2 months to adhd immoderate gloss to the last score.

With Lecce losing 1-0 to Juventus, Cremonese participate gameweek 37 conscionable 1 constituent from safety, though they whitethorn request different triumph successful the campaign’s last rounds to leapfrog the Lupi.

However, the Lombardy outfit person fallen to 8 defeats successful their 9 distant matches successful 2026, defeating lone Parma 2-0 during that period, and person since failed to people successful consequent losses to Cagliari (1-0) and Napoli (4-0), highlighting the uphill situation facing the visitors up of Sunday’s travel to Udine.

Kosta Runjaic has done good to support this weekend’s hosts motivated, adjacent though they are efficaciously playing for thing speech from a steadfast league finish.

The 10th-placed Friulani are 4th successful the signifier table, having accrued 10 points from the erstwhile 5 rounds, claiming wins implicit out-of-form AC Milan (3-0), Torino (2-0) and Cagliari (2-0).

Last weekend’s triumph implicit Cagliari means that Runjaic’s squad person present kept cleanable sheets successful consecutive rounds for lone the 2nd clip this season, the archetypal of which came during a three-game tally against Genoa (2-0), Como (0-0) and Milan.

Now aiming to lucifer that caller run, the hosts volition anticipation to leverage the information they person not mislaid to their Lombardy-based visitors since an August 1996 Coppa Italia defeat, adjacent if lone 3 fixtures person been played betwixt the sides since.

Udinese’s unbeaten league tally successful this fixture goes further backmost to 1985, a 41-year grounds they look to sphere against Sunday’s struggling distant side.

Udinese Serie A form:

Cremonese Serie A form:

Team News

Kingsley Ehizibue is suspended for 1 crippled owed to an accumulation of cards, portion Jurgen Ekkelenkamp (leg) and Alessandro Zanoli (knee) are surely sidelined.

Branimir Mlacic volition beryllium assessed aft playing conscionable 54 minutes earlier going disconnected injured against Cagliari past weekend, perchance meaning a alteration astatine close centre-back for the Udine-based hosts.

Top-scoring Keinan Davis returned to the broadside with an assistance aft missing 3 games, taking him to 14 nonstop extremity involvements this term, and the guardant could adhd to his 10 league strikes connected Sunday.

Vardy was backmost among the goals for Cremonese successful past week’s triumph implicit Pisa, taking his tally for the play to six, much than each teammate but Bonazzoli, who needs 1 much to deed treble digits.

The relegation-threatened visitors are without Federico Baschirotto owed to a hamstring issue, portion Martin Payero, Faris Moumbagna, Romano Floriani Mussolini and Giuseppe Pezzella volition acquisition appraisal up of Sunday’s travel to Udine.

Udinese imaginable starting lineup:

Okoye; Bertola, Kristensen, Solet; Zemura, Karlstrom, Piotrowski, Atta, Kamara; Zaniolo, Buksa

Cremonese imaginable starting lineup:

Audero; Terracciano, Bianchetti, Luperto, Golino; Barbieri, Maleh, Grassi, Vandaputte; Bonazzoli, Vardy

We say: Udinese 2-0 Cremonese

Udinese’s location signifier successful Serie A is acold from encouraging — they person won conscionable 2 of their past 5 and six from 18 wide — but Cremonese’s signifier connected their travels is awful.

Having mislaid each but 1 of their 9 distant matches successful 2026, different decision could beryllium successful the offing successful Udine contempt their desperation for points.

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