Roma and Cagliari are going to face on Monday the 5th of February at 8:45 pm in the 23rd week of the Serie A. The match will be staged in Roma at the Stadio Olimpico. The encounter will be officiated by Matteo Marcenaro.
Roma sits in the 5th position in the table with 35 points. It comes from a 1-2 win against Salernitana in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 10 times, draw 5 times, and lost 7 times.
Cagliari is in the 18th position in the league with 18 points. It comes from a 1-2 loss against Torino in its last match in the Serie A. Up to now, it has won 4 times, draw 6 times, and lost 12 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Roma
Roma has mostly adopted the 3-5-2 line-up during the season (16 times or 72.73%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-5-2 (16 times), 3-4-2-1 (4 times) and 4-3-2-1 (2 times).
Daniele De Rossi is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Rui Patrício, Rasmus Kristensen, Gianluca Mancini, Diego Llorente, Rick Karsdorp, Lorenzo Pellegrini, Bryan Cristante, Leandro Paredes, Stephan El Shaarawy, Paulo Dybala and Romelu Lukaku .
Presuming that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Roma would be 30.18.
Daniele De Rossi will probably not be able to employ Chris Smalling and Renato Sanches because of injury.
Evan Ndicka, Leonardo Spinazzola, Houssem Aouar and Tammy Abraham will definitely miss the match.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up during the season (6 times or 27.27%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (6 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 4-3-2-1 (4 times), 4-4-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (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 Roma with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Mateusz Wieteska, Pantelis Hatzidiakos, Alberto Dossena, Paulo Azzi, Antoine Makoumbou, Matteo Prati, Gabriele Zappa, Nicolas Viola, Nahitan Nández and Andrea Petagna.
If the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Cagliari would be 27.55.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Ibrahim Sulemana because of injury.
Velizar-Iliya Iliev, Marco Mancosu, Gaetano Oristanio, Marko Rog and Zito Luvumbo will definitely miss the match.
