Fiorentina v Parma is a friendly and will be played on Thursday at 19:00: stats, TV, streaming, likely line-ups, predictions
Fiorentina’s 2023-24 season will start from Bagno a Ripoli, a small town on the outskirts of Florence and home to the new Viola Park sports centre, strongly desired by owner Rocco Commisso, who has owned the club for four years now.
The Viola have decided to hold their pre-season training camp here, in what is already one of the largest, most modern and avant-garde centres in Europe. Vincenzo Italiano’s team will make their debut in the friendly against Parma, the noble decadence of Italian football, who for the second year in a row have failed to regain the top division. Fiorentina, on the other hand, are coming off a bittersweet year: they reached two finals, the Coppa Italia and the Conference League, but lost them both, against Inter and West Ham respectively. The details made the difference and it is precisely on those that the Sicilian-born coach, confirmed on the purple bench, will have to work. Biraghi and his teammates, for the moment, will not play in any European competition, having finished eighth in the last championship, but everything could change if Juventus are disqualified by Uefa. Should the top football body oust the Bianconeri from the Conference League, it would be the Gigliati who would take their place. The Viola’s first market blow concerned the back packet: the promising Parisi arrived from Empoli, who will compete for captain Biraghi’s place. For the midfield, the Juventus player Arthur seems to be on the home straight.
Parma relies again on Fabio Pecchia, despite the defeat in the Serie B playoff against Cagliari. The Emiliani’s squad has not yet been properly reinforced, but this time too they will certainly be among the main candidates for promotion.
Pecchia
The Prediction
Test more than ever for Fiorentina, who face a team aiming for direct promotion in the upcoming Serie B. The Viola are slight favourites, but there should be no shortage of goals: Pecchia’s Ducali are also likely to score one.
Fibrentina v Parma
likely line-ups
- FIORENTINA (4-2-3-1): Terracciano; Pierozzi, Martinez Quarta, Ranieri, Biraghi; Duncan, Mandragora; Ikoné, Munteanu, Brekalo; Cabral.
- PARMA (4-2-3-1): Chichizola; Delprato, Osorio, Cobbaut, Ansaldi; Estevez, Bernabé; Partipilo, Sohm, Benedyczak; Man.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 3-2
