Genoa and Torino will clash on Saturday the 13th of January at 3:00 pm in the 20th week of the Serie A. The match will take place in Genova at the Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris. The referee will be Antonio Giua.
Genoa occupies the 12th position in the league with 21 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Bologna in its last match in the Serie A. As of now, it has won 5 times, draw 6 times, and lost 8 times.
Torino is in the 10th place in the standings with 27 points. It comes from a 3-0 win against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. Thus far, it has won 7 times, draw 6 times, and lost 6 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 during the season (11 times or 57.89%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (11 times), 3-4-1-2 (2 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 4-3-2-1 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 4-4-1-1 (once).
Alberto Gilardino is expected to play against Torino with the following players: Josep Martínez, Koni De Winter, Johan Vásquez, Junior Messias, Morten Frendrup, Milan Badelj, Stefano Sabelli, Mateo Retegui and Albert Guðmundsson.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Genoa would be 27.56.
There are doubts about the presence of Mattia Bani and Ruslan Malinovskyi.
Alberto Gilardino will probably not be able to employ Kevin Strootman because of injury.
Morten Thorsby, Caleb Ekuban and George Pușcaș will definitely miss the match.
Torino
Torino has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (8 times or 42.11%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (8 times), 3-5-2 (6 times) and 3-4-1-2 (5 times).
Ivan Juric is expected to play against Genoa with the following players: Vanja Milinković-Savić, Ricardo Rodríguez, Alessandro Buongiorno, Koffi Djidji , Valentino Lazaro, Samuele Ricci, Ivan Ilić, Raoul Bellanova, Nikola Vlašić, Antonio Sanabria and Duván Zapata.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Torino would be 27.45.
Ivan Juric will probably not be able to employ Mihai Popa, Karol Linetty and Nemanja Radonjić because of injury.
Perr Schuurs and Yann Karamoh will definitely miss the match.