Udinese vs Lazio - prediction, team news, lineups

Set to circular disconnected Serie A's 3rd matchday connected Monday evening, Udinese and Lazio volition some purpose to widen their fantabulous commencement to the season.

While the hosts person travel done 2 cupful ties and are unbeaten successful the league, their visitors from the superior person claimed maximum points without conceding.

Match preview

Once again, Udinese person made a accelerated commencement to the caller season, continuing a inclination nether the canny absorption of Kosta Runjaic.

The Fruilani are successful good form, having held big-spending Como to a gully successful their opening league fixture, earlier beating Monza 3-2 with immoderate almighty finishing.

Furthermore, they person already progressed done 2 Coppa Italia ties to acceptable up a last-16 clash with Atalanta.

Having eliminated Padova successful circular one, Udinese maintained their unbeaten streak connected Wednesday, erstwhile they dumped retired determination rivals Venezia acknowledgment to a brace by Ivorian striker Vakoun Bayo.

Runjaic - who led them to 10th spot past play - indispensable present power absorption backmost to Serie A, aiming to unafraid 7 points from the archetypal 3 games for a 3rd consecutive year.

Precedent suggests helium should person a bully chance: Udinese person mislaid conscionable 2 of their past 10 league meetings with Lazio, including a brace of melodramatic draws past term.

There were precise precocious levellers successful some of those games, and Davide Frattesi has built a estimation for striking successful stoppage clip - including erstwhile against Udinese portion with Inter Milan.

Having traded Inter for Lazio this summer, helium is already established arsenic the fans' caller hero, acknowledgment to scoring the victor successful his archetypal 2 appearances.

First, Frattesi struck the decider against Bologna, earlier repeating that feat astatine location to Genoa past clip out; remarkably, the Rome nine person present won their past 7 games against the second by an aggregate people of 14-2.

Though Lazio person lone taken maximum points from their archetypal 3 Serie A fixtures doubly earlier - successful 1974 and 2012 - that indispensable beryllium the people for caller manager Gennaro Gattuso, who was instrumental successful signing Frattesi.

History volition beryllium connected the Biancocelesti's side, arsenic they person mislaid conscionable erstwhile crossed their past 13 league visits to Udine, besides winning connected 8 occasions.

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Team News

Once again, Udinese volition beryllium missing Nicolo Zaniolo and Matteo Palma, who precocious joined Giorgi Chakvetadze and semipermanent absentee Alessandro Zanoli connected the sidelines.

In amended quality for the Bianconeri, experienced defender Christian Kabasele returned from a prohibition connected Wednesday, and adjacent without Zaniolo they person plentifulness of contention up front. 

Idrissa Gueye started against Como, portion past term's apical scorer Keinan Davis got the motion against Padova and Monza; Bayo has conscionable bagged a brace successful the cup.

Even wing-back Hassane Kamara has 2 goals successful arsenic galore league games, portion Frattesi is the lone Lazio subordinate to people truthful far.

The Italy midfielder peculiarly likes facing Udinese, having recovered the nett 5 times against them successful Serie A, and helium should commencement down a lone striker connected Monday.

Andrea Pinamonti and Tijjani Noslin are some contenders, though Boulaye Dia has led the enactment since Gattuso took charge.

Albert Gudmundsson has conscionable arrived arsenic different attacking option, but Lazio volition question without respective injured men: antiaircraft duo Patric and Adam Marusic, positive midfield trio Nicolo Rovella, Fisayo Dele-Bashiru and Danilo Cataldi. 

Udinese imaginable starting lineup:

Okoye; Abankwah, Kabasele, Solet; Vojvoda, Karlstrom, Piotrowski, Kamara; Ekkelenkamp, Gomez; Davis

Lazio imaginable starting lineup:

Mandas; Lazzari, Doekhi, Provstgaard, Tavares; Frattesi, Belahyane, Taylor; Cancellieri, Pinamonti, Zaccagni

We say: Udinese 2-2 Lazio 

Both sides person built immoderate aboriginal momentum and present person aggregate men to take from up front, truthful it should beryllium an entertaining contest.

Since slumping retired of the Coppa Italia connected his dugout debut, Gattuso has overseen 2 choky wins for Lazio, but this 1 could extremity successful a draw.

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