Salernitana and Spezia will play on Monday the 7th of February at 8:45 pm in the 24th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Salerno at the Stadio Arechi. The appointed referee is Paolo Valeri.
Salernitana is in the 20th place in the standings with 10 points. It comes from a 4-1 loss against Napoli in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 3 times, drawn twice, and lost 17 times.
Spezia is in the 15th position in the league with 25 points. It comes from a 1-0 win against Sampdoria in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 7 times, draw 4 times, and lost 12 times.
Spezia won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of January against Hellas Verona and the score was 1-2.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Salernitana
Salernitana has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 31.82%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (7 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 5-3-2 (3 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times), 4-5-1 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Stefano Colantuono is expected to play against Spezia with the following players: R. Gagliolo, G. Kastanos, L. Ranieri, J. Chukwuma Obi, L. Coulibaly, E. Vergani, F. Bonazzoli, F. Ribéry and M. Đurić.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Salernitana would be 28.11.
Stefano Colantuono will probably not be able to employ M. Ruggeri, M. Coulibaly and F. Di Tacchio because of injury.
S. Strandberg and A. Schiavone will definitely miss the match.
Stefano Colantuono will not be able to have the presence of F. Veseli who is suspended.
Spezia
Spezia has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 30.43%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-3-3 (5 times), 4-1-4-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (3 times), 4-4-2 (once), 5-3-2 (once), 3-5-1-1 (once), 3-4-2-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Thiago Motta is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: I. Provedel, A. Reca, D. Nikolaou, M. Erlić, K. Amian Adou, G. Maggiore, J. Sala, J. Kiwior, D. Verde, E. Gyasi and R. Manaj.
Suppose that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Spezia would be 25.73.
Thiago Motta will probably not be able to employ M. Bourabia because of injury.
S. Bastoni, E. Colley, L. de Souza Sena and V. Kovalenko will definitely miss the match.
