Balanced ball game between Hellas Verona and Fiorentina expected

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Wed 22.December
Match begins: 17:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi (42160 seats)

Fiorentina should not count on any easy points from hosts Hellas Verona in this Serie A fixture. Here's our broad match preview!

Insights:
  • Hellas Verona have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Serie A
  • Fiorentina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Hellas Verona form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie A, Hellas Verona have managed 5 wins, 1 draw and suffered 3 defeats from 9 games.

No payout for Hellas in their previous match, an away game at Torino that ended in defeat 0-1. Defender Ceccherini got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.3/10. Ceccherini won 9 of 11 duels.

Ahead of that match, Hellas Verona lost 3-4 at home to Empoli.

The Hellas manager Tudor has got the team scoring with 19 from 9 home games in the league. 13 goals have been conceded.

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Fiorentina form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie A travels is 4 wins, 0 draws and 5 defeats.

There were no winners in Fiorentina's previous match, a Serie A home game that ended 2-2 vs Sassuolo (placed 11th). An inspired comeback made the scores level in Fiorentina's duel with Sassuolo. It looked bad at 0-2 but the team were not done and fought back to 2-2 after Torreira found the equalizer. Torreira got a match rating of 8.81 in that game, top player of the team. Torreira scored one goal, served one assist, hit one key pass and had 33 successful passes (of 40 total).

A home win before that, celebrating 2-1 vs Benevento.

The visiting Fiorentina have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 10 goals from 9 games. 12 goals have been conceded by Fiorentina in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-to-head numbers (for the former ten meetings): Hellas won three games, three matches ended in a draw and Fiorentina have four wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: four / six

Top Goalscorers

FiorentinaD. Vlahović
D. Vlahović
16 goals
Hellas VeronaG. Simeone
G. Simeone
12 goals
Hellas VeronaA. Barák
A. Barák
5 goals

Hellas Verona missing players

Fiorentina missing players

Hellas Verona Fiorentina
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 9 3 Played P 4 9 18
6 5 1 Won W 1 4 10
5 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
7 3 2 Lost L 3 5 7
33 19 5 Scored S 4 10 33
31 13 7 Conceded C 6 12 24
94% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
83% 89% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 56% 78%
72% 89% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 56% 78%
56% 56% 67% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 22% 39%
33% 33% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 25% 11% 11%
78% 78% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 61%
11% 22% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 11% 22%
17% 11% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 17%
 
4.2 4.7 5 Corners for (avg) C F 4.5 4.7 4.8
4.1 4 6 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.1 4.1
2.7 2.4 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.8 3.2 2.6
4 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 5
 
12.2 13.9 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 10 13.1
4.1 4.8 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.2 3.6 5.1
45% 44% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 31% 36%
 
13.6 13.8 15.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.8 10.9 10.3
4.5 4.9 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.8 4.2 4.1
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Fiorentina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Hellas Verona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Hellas Verona have the most dropped points from leading position (18) in Serie A

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Inter 18 13 4 1 48 15 8 6 2 0 24 6 10 7 2 1 24 9 33 43
2 Napoli 18 12 3 3 35 13 9 6 1 2 17 6 9 6 2 1 18 7 22 39
3 Milan 18 12 3 3 36 20 9 6 1 2 16 8 9 6 2 1 20 12 16 39
4 Atalanta 18 11 4 3 38 24 9 3 3 3 18 15 9 8 1 0 20 9 14 37
5 Roma 18 10 1 7 30 20 9 6 1 2 12 7 9 4 0 5 18 13 10 31
6 Fiorentina 18 10 1 7 33 24 9 6 1 2 23 12 9 4 0 5 10 12 9 31
7 Juventus 18 9 4 5 25 17 8 4 1 3 9 7 10 5 3 2 16 10 8 31
8 Lazio 18 8 4 6 36 33 9 6 2 1 25 13 9 2 2 5 11 20 3 28
9 Empoli 18 8 3 7 28 30 9 3 1 5 14 20 9 5 2 2 14 10 -2 27
10 Torino 18 7 4 7 23 18 10 6 2 2 19 10 8 1 2 5 4 8 5 25
11 Sassuolo 18 6 6 6 30 28 9 3 3 3 12 11 9 3 3 3 18 17 2 24
12 Bologna 18 7 3 8 24 31 10 5 1 4 16 14 8 2 2 4 8 17 -7 24
13 Hellas Verona 18 6 5 7 33 31 9 5 1 3 19 13 9 1 4 4 14 18 2 23
14 Udinese 18 4 8 6 26 28 9 2 5 2 11 12 9 2 3 4 15 16 -2 20
15 Sampdoria 18 5 4 9 26 34 10 2 3 5 14 21 8 3 1 4 12 13 -8 19
16 Venezia 18 4 5 9 17 31 8 2 2 4 11 14 10 2 3 5 6 17 -14 17
17 Spezia 18 3 4 11 18 39 9 2 3 4 10 12 9 1 1 7 8 27 -21 13
18 Genoa 18 1 7 10 19 37 8 0 3 5 8 17 10 1 4 5 11 20 -18 10
19 Cagliari 18 1 7 10 17 38 10 1 4 5 12 19 8 0 3 5 5 19 -21 10
20 Salernitana 18 2 2 14 11 42 9 1 1 7 5 21 9 1 1 7 6 21 -31 8

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Read more about Serie A

Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.