Genoa and Atalanta are going to face off on Tuesday the 21st of December at 8:45 pm in the 19th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Genova at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris. The referee will be Paolo Valeri.
Genoa sits in the 18th place in the standings with 10 points. It comes from a 3-1 loss against Lazio in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won once, draw 7 times, and lost 10 times.
Atalanta sits in the 4th position in the standings with 37 points. It comes from a 1-4 loss against Roma in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 11 times, draw 4 times, and lost 3 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Genoa
Genoa has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 55.56%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 4-1-4-1 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Andriy Shevchenko is expected to play against Atalanta with the following players: S. Sirigu, D. Criscito, D. Biraschi, J. Vásquez Ibarra, M. Portanova, H. Azevedo Júnior, M. Badelj, P. Ghiglione, C. Ekuban and M. Destro.
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Genoa would be 28.00.
There are doubts about the presence of A. Cambiaso.
Andriy Shevchenko will probably not be able to employ Z. Vanheusden because of injury.
F. Marchetti, M. Fares, N. Maksimović, V. Behrami, F. Cassata, I. Radovanović, N. Rovella and F. Caicedo Corozo will definitely miss the match.
Atalanta
Atalanta has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (9 times or 50.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (9 times), 3-4-3 (5 times) and 3-4-1-2 (4 times).
Gian Piero Gasperini is expected to play against Genoa with the following players: J. Musso, M. Demiral, B. Djimsiti, J. Palomino, D. Zappacosta, H. Hateboer, M. de Roon, R. Freuler, R. Malinovskiy, M. Pessina and D. Zapata Banguera.
Granting that the above line up is confirmed, the resulting average age of Atalanta would be 27.82.
R. Gosens, J. Mæhle and R. Tolói will definitely miss the match.