Spezia and Hellas Verona will face on Thursday the 6th of January at 2:30 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match is going to take place in La Spezia at the Stadio Alberto Picco. The encounter will be officiated by Maurizio Mariani.
Spezia occupies the 17th position in the table with 16 points. It comes from a 0-1 win against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 4 times, draw 4 times, and lost 11 times.
Hellas Verona occupies the 12th position in the table with 24 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Fiorentina in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 6 times, and lost 7 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Spezia
Spezia has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 36.84%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-3-3 (3 times), 4-4-2 (once), 5-3-2 (once), 3-5-1-1 (once), 4-1-4-1 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Thiago Motta is expected to play against Hellas Verona with the following players: I. Provedel, D. Nikolaou, K. Amian Adou, M. Erlić, A. Reca, S. Bastoni, G. Maggiore, J. Kiwior, E. Gyasi, K. Agudelo Ardila and J. Antiste.
Assuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the average age of Spezia would be 24.64.
Thiago Motta will probably not be able to employ E. Salcedo Mora because of injury.
P. Hristov, M. Bourabia, E. Colley, L. de Souza Sena, V. Kovalenko, J. Sala, R. Manaj, M. N’Zola, D. Strelec and D. Verde will definitely miss the match.
Hellas Verona
Hellas Verona has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (15 times or 78.95%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (15 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times) and 3-4-3 (2 times).
Igor Tudor is expected to play against Spezia with the following players: L. Montipò, N. Casale, F. Ceccherini, A. Tameze, M. Faraoni, D. Lazović, I. Ilić, M. Pinto Veloso, G. Caprari, K. Lasagna and G. Simeone.
Assuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Hellas Verona would be 28.55.
P. Dawidowicz, G. Frabotta, K. Günter, G. Magnani, M. Hongla, A. Barák and N. Kalinić will definitely miss the match.