Venezia vs Udinese - prediction, team news, lineups

The Serie A play volition footwear disconnected with a conflict astatine the bottommost nether Friday nighttime lights, arsenic Udinese sojourn Venezia astatine Stadio Penzo.

After Kosta Runjaic was sacked earlier this week, some clubs person already changed manager owed to a genuinely dismal acceptable of results.

Match preview

Promoted backmost to Italy’s apical formation past spring, Venezia person lone picked up 3 points since returning to Serie A, and they are rooted to the ft of the table.

After a dilatory start, the Lagunari swapped Giovanni Stroppa for endurance specializer Davide Nicola, whose caller broadside impressively upset Napoli successful his archetypal match.

However, they person since mislaid their adjacent 3 games without scoring; past weekend, they were beaten 1-0 by Como, contempt the champion efforts of engaged goalkeeper Filip Stankovic.

As a result, Venezia are lone the 3rd squad ever to suffer astatine slightest 9 of their archetypal 10 Serie A fixtures, leaving Nicola with issues to hole astatine some ends.

Not lone person the Arancioneroverdi scored conscionable six league goals, they are presently conceding astatine a complaint of 2 per crippled - undoubtedly relegation form.

Now, they volition big opponents successful likewise dire shape; arsenic Udinese are conscionable 2 points supra them, triumph would assistance Venezia disconnected the bottommost rung.

Most day backmost respective years, but Udinese person won 5 of the sides' past 7 league meetings, and they came retired connected apical successful a Coppa Italia necktie earlier this term.

However, they person lone ever posted 1 top-flight triumph astatine Stadio Penzo, and the Fruilani are presently successful freefall.

After a 5-2 crushing by Roma past week, Udinese person mislaid 7 of their past 8 matches, and that dense location decision proved the last basal for Runjaic.

The German manager had fared good successful his archetypal 2 years astatine the club, but a tally of 5 points from 10 Serie A games represents their worst commencement this century.

Without missing a beat, ex-Venezia brag Paolo Zanetti was appointed until the extremity of the season, and helium indispensable archetypal sojourn his erstwhile club.

Since getting the Lagunari promoted for the archetypal clip successful 19 years, Zanetti's idiosyncratic grounds has been mixed elsewhere, truthful helium volition surely person a constituent to beryllium connected Friday.

Venezia Serie A form:

Udinese Serie A form:

Team News

Marin Sverko, Bartol Franjic and Andrea Adorante are inactive ruled retired for Venezia, portion wing-back Thierry Correia is struggling to retrieve from a thigh strain. 

After Lion Lauerbach started the Lagunari's past 2 matches, it remains to beryllium seen if John Yeboah reforms his concern with club-record signing Akor Adams.

Only Roma prima Donyell Malen (15) has had much shots connected people than Adams (13) successful Serie A this term, but the Nigerian striker has lone scored doubly - some times connected location turf.

Meanwhile, Udinese's main antheral is enduring a overmuch leaner run: since the extremity of March, Keinan Davis has gone 13 league games without uncovering the net.

Attacking midfielder Jurgen Ekkelenkamp is the Friulani's apical Serie A scorer with 3 goals, and helium should surely diagnostic successful Zanetti's archetypal XI.

Although Oumar Solet has flooded a calf problem, the visitors volition beryllium without Alessandro Zanoli, David Alaba and Idrissa Gueye; the matchwinner erstwhile these teams precocious clashed successful the cup, Vakoun Bayo remains a doubt.

Venezia imaginable starting lineup:

Stankovic; Halhal, Moreno, Jesus; Hainaut, Perez, Busio, Sohm, Mazzocchi; Yeboah, Adams

Udinese imaginable starting lineup:

Okoye; Abankwah, Solet, Palma; Vojvoda, Karlstrom, Piotrowski, Kamara; Zaniolo, Ekkelenkamp; Davis

We say: Venezia 1-2 Udinese

With the worst extremity quality and fewest points successful Serie A, this brace person been successful hopeless signifier for astir of the season.

Perhaps a 'new manager bounce' tin assistance Udinese yet disturbance from their malaise, arsenic Zanetti makes a triumphant instrumentality to the Penzo.

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