Fiorentina-Catanzaro is a friendly match and will be played on Sunday at 18:45: stats, TV, streaming, likely formations, predictions
Third friendly for Fiorentina, who after the two tests with the Primavera team and Parma, will face Catanzaro, newly promoted to Serie B. The context is obviously still the Viola Park in Bagno a Ripoli, the brand new sports centre that the club inaugurated a few weeks ago, choosing to hold their pre-season training camp there.
The match against the Calabrians would have been the occasion to renew the more than ten-year-long twinning between the two fans, the purple and the yellow and red ones, but the match will be played again behind closed doors. In fact, there is still no positive opinion from the Prefecture regarding public access: a delay that has infuriated the Fiorentina fans, who before this year had always been able to attend their team’s first matches. Vincenzo Italiano’s men did not go beyond a draw with Parma (1-1), with Cabral replying to Estevez at the end of the first half.
There were numerous changes made by the Sicilian-born coach, who sent in several youngsters (Amatucci and Kayode) as well as new signing Parisi, who had just arrived from Empoli.
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In these hours, the second reinforcement has also been made official: it is the Brazilian director Arthur, who arrives in Florence on loan with right of redemption. As for Catanzaro, Vincenzo Vivarini’s Giallorossi are in training camp in Cascia, Umbria. After a season destined to go down in history – 96 points in 38 matches – the Calabrian club has no intention of playing a second fiddle in the cadetteria, regained after 17 years.
The prediction
An experimental Fiorentina should be able to get the better of a Catanzaro, who will in any case make a good impression against the Viola. Most likely they will both score
The probable line-ups of Fiorentina-Catanzaro
- FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1): Terracciano; Dodò, Martinez Quarta, Ranieri, Biraghi; Castrovilli, Mandragora; Ikoné, Bonaventura, Brekalo; Jovic.
- CATANZARO (3-5-2): Fulignati; Scognamillo, Brighenti, Krastev; Brignola, Pontisso, Sounas, Verna, Vandeputte; Biasci, Iemmello.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 2-1
