Sassuolo and Genoa are going to play on Thursday the 6th of January at 15:30 in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match will be played in Reggio nell’Emilia at the MAPEI Stadium – Città del Tricolore. The appointed referee is Gianluca Manganiello.
Sassuolo sits in the 13th position in the standings with 24 points. It comes from a 0-3 loss against Bologna in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 6 times, draw 5 times, and lost 7 times.
Genoa sits in the 18th position in the standings with 11 points. It comes from a 0-0 draw against Atalanta in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won once, draw 8 times, and lost 10 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Sassuolo
Sassuolo has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 61.11%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (11 times), 4-3-3 (6 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).
Alessio Dionisi is expected to play against Genoa with the following players: A. Consigli, R. Oliveira da Silva, G. Ferrari, V. Chiricheș, J. Toljan, K. Ayhan, M. Lopez, A. Harroui, D. Berardi, G. Raspadori and G. Defrel.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the estimate average age of Sassuolo would be 28.00.
E. Goldaniga, F. Peluso, F. Romagna, J. Boga, M. de Souza, F. Đuričić, D. Frattesi, F. Magnanelli, P. Mba Obiang Avomo, H. Traorè, G. Scamacca and N. Schiappacasse Oliva will definitely miss the match.
Genoa
Genoa has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up most used during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (11 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 Sassuolo with the following players: S. Sirigu, J. Vásquez Ibarra, D. Biraschi, M. Bani, P. Ghiglione, A. Cambiaso, M. Portanova, H. Azevedo Júnior, M. Badelj, G. Pandev and M. Destro.
If the line up is confirmed, the average age of Genoa would be 28.73.
Andriy Shevchenko will probably not be able to employ F. Marchetti, M. Fares, Z. Vanheusden, V. Behrami, F. Caicedo Corozo and Y. Kallon because of injury.
N. Maksimović, L. Serpe, F. Cassata, D. Criscito, I. Radovanović and N. Rovella will definitely miss the match.
Andriy Shevchenko will not be able to have the presence of S. Sturaro who is suspended.
