Hellas Verona and Cagliari will take on on Saturday the 23rd of December at 6:00 pm in the 17th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Verona at the Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi. The chosen referee is Daniele Orsato.

Hellas Verona occupies the 19th place in the standings with 11 points. It comes from a 1-0 loss against Fiorentina in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won twice, draw 5 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Cagliari is in the 16th place in the standings with 13 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Hellas Verona​

Line - Ups​

Hellas Verona has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (8 times or 50.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (8 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times) and 4-3-3 (once).

Marco Baroni is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Lorenzo Montipò, Filippo Terracciano, Isak Hien, Paweł Dawidowicz, Jackson Tchatchoua, Michael Folorunsho, Ondrej Duda, Darko Lazović, Tomas Suslov, Cyril Ngonge and Milan Đurić.

Assuming that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Hellas Verona would be 25.91.

Marco Baroni will probably not be able to employ Davide Faraoni because of injury.

Koray Günter, Ajdin Hrustić, Jayden Braaf and Yayah Kallon will definitely miss the match.

Cagliari​

Cagliari has mostly adopted 2 line-ups: 4-3-1-2 and 3-5-2 (4 times or 25.00% each of them).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (4 times), 3-5-2 (4 times), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-3-2-1 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once), 4-1-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).

Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Hellas Verona with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Tommaso Augello, Alberto Dossena, Edoardo Goldaniga, Nahitan Nández, Jakub Jankto, Antoine Makoumbou, Matteo Prati, Nicolas Viola, Gianluca Lapadula and Andrea Petagna.

Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Cagliari would be 27.82.

Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Elio Capradossi because of injury.

Velizar-Iliya Iliev and Marko Rog will definitely miss the match.