Udinese-Verona is a Serie A Week 20 match to be played on Monday at 20:45: odds, predictions, TV and streaming.
Udinese’s seemingly interminable winless streak has been broken after ten games, and thanks to a goal from defender Ehizibue, Andrea Sottil’s Bianconeri defeated Sampdoria a week ago and consolidated seventh place in the table.
The penalisation of Juventus, yesterday defeated at home by Monza, has opened new scenarios and among the main ‘beneficiaries’ could also be the Friulians. The Friulian side could be among the main ‘beneficiaries’. In the home post-match against Verona, they have the chance to go +4 over eighth-placed Torino and keep dreaming of qualifying for the Conference League. Beto and his team-mates’ last success at the Dacia Arena dates back to last September, when the Bianconeri inflicted a resounding thrashing on Inter, extending the extraordinary string of victories from the start of the season. For the first time in over four months, Sottil and his men have the chance to return to record two wins in a row. In any case, it remains an extremely positive year for Udinese: in the previous ten seasons they had never done better, collecting the same number of points (28) at the halfway mark only in 2017-18.
Verona on the up but disastrous on the road
Verona also returned to winning ways last day, winning their second consecutive home clash.
Depaoli
After Cremonese, Lecce also fell at the “Bentegodi” and always with the same result (2-0) with which Marco Zaffaroni’s gialloblù had got the better of the grigiorossi. The Scaligeri in this way relaunched their salvation ambitions, reducing the enormous gap that existed between third-last and fourth-last place. Spezia, at the moment the team closest to Verona, were defeated by Bologna in Friday’s early match and in the event of success at the Dacia Arena the Venetians would move to -3. To do so, Verona will have to break the away taboo: together with Cremonese, they are the only team not yet to have won away from their stadium.
Udinese-Verona: latest line-up news
In the week Udinese found they will have to do without their most talented striker, Deulofeu, who was forced to undergo knee surgery. The Spaniard will be out for some time and that is why the Friulian club decided to take precautions, signing up the unemployed Florian Thauvin, former Marseille and world champion with France in 2018. For now, however, Beto and Success will take the field. Against Verona it will be Samardzic’s turn, while on the right flank there will be Ehizibue, as Pereyra is still unavailable.
On the other side there could be more than one change from the match against Lecce. Serbian midfielder Ilic has just been sold to Torino and Zaffaroni must make provision for the disqualification of defender Dawidowicz. Magnani will play in his place, while in the middle the coach will rely on Sulemana, while waiting for new signing Duda to be deployed.
The Prediction
Three points that could benefit both sides, who are fighting for different goals. The victory in Genoa may have unblocked Udinese, who, despite Deulofeu’s absence, should be able to avoid defeat against a Verona on the rise, back to believing in salvation. Both should be able to score and one of them could do so in the first half. Verona, in fact, are the team that has scored more goals in percentage in the first half, Udinese the one that has conceded more.
The probable line-up for Udinese v Verona
- UDINESE (3-5-2): Silvestri; Becao, Bijol, Perez; Ehizibue, Samardzic, Walace, Makengo, Udogie; Success, Beto.
- VERONA (3-4-2-1): Montipò; Magnani, Hien, Ceccherini; Depaoli, Tameze, Sulemana, Doig; Lasagna, Lazovic; Djuric.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-1
