Cittadella-Bari is a Serie B Week 16 match to be played on Thursday at 15:00: odds, predictions, live TV and streaming.
Bari continue to postpone their appointment with the three points. The ambitious and swaggering neo-promoted side that almost exclusively collected victories between August and October is just a faded memory. The Galletti coached by Michele Mignani, the coach responsible for the promotion from C to B, are travelling with the handbrake pulled and compared to the bombastic start of the season are perhaps forced to downsize their objectives. Against Pisa, on the last day of the championship, came yet another draw, the fifth in a row. This time without a goal (0-0) after three games in a row with both teams scoring. Frosinone and Reggina move away, while the Apulians remain in third position, with the same haul as Genoa, Parma and Brescia but -6 from Pippo Inzaghi’s amaranthos.
Still without their goal scorer Walid Cheddira, who is at the World Cup with the surprising Morocco, Bari will face another test of a certain level this midweek: the away match at Cittadella, where the last biancorossa victory dates back to 2014. Edoardo Gorini’s Granata are in good health, fresh from a historic 0-1 victory at the Marassi against Genoa by Antonucci, and have lost only once in their last eight matches. They score very little – the second worst attack in the tournament after bottom-of-the-table Perugia – but are very solid at the back, as shown by the fact that they have conceded just four goals in seven games (excluding the Coppa Italia debacle against Torino, of course).
Cittadella-Bari: the latest line-up news
Antonucci’s goal in Genoa
Gorini should reproduce en bloc the eleven that did the trick in Genoa. Antonucci supported in attack by Magrassi, with Loris Varela in the three-quarter. Beretta, who is still not at his best, has to be evaluated: the coach will decide at the last minute whether to call him up or not. No major defections – Cheddira and the injured Ceter aside – for Mignani, who will confirm Scheidler up front alongside experienced centre-forward Antenucci.
The Prediction
A tough away match for Bari, who, after their sparkling start, are unable to win. Both, however, are going through a particular moment from an offensive point of view. And it wouldn’t be a surprise if we didn’t see too many goals. In Cittadella’s last matches, in fact, only on one occasion (against Parma) have we seen more than two goals in total.
The probable formations of Cittadella-Bari
- CITTADELLA (4-3-1-2): Kastrati; Vita, Perticone, Visentin, Cassandro; Carriero, Pavan, Branca; Lores Varela; Antenucci, Magrassi.
- BARI (4-3-1-2): Caprile; Pucino, Di Cesare, Vicari, Dorval; Maita, Maiello, Folorunsho; Botta; Scheidler, Antonucci.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1
