Monza and Cagliari are going to face off on Saturday the 16th of March at 3:00 pm in the 29th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Monza at the U-Power Stadium. The chosen referee is Matteo Marcenaro.
Monza occupies the 10th place in the league with 39 points. It comes from a 2-3 win against Genoa in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 10 times, draw 9 times, and lost 9 times.
Cagliari sits in the 15th place in the league with 26 points. It comes from a 4-2 win against Salernitana in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 6 times, draw 8 times, and lost 14 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Monza
Monza has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up during the season (20 times or 71.43%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (20 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 3-4-3 (2 times) and 3-4-1-2 (once).
Raffaele Palladino is expected to play against Cagliari with the following players: Michele Di Gregorio, Andrea Carboni, Pablo Marí, Armando Izzo, Samuele Birindelli, Warren Bondo, Matteo Pessina, Dany Mota, Andrea Colpani, Daniel Maldini and Milan Đurić.
Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Monza would be 26.73.
Raffaele Palladino will probably not be able to employ Roberto Gagliardini because of injury.
Danilo D’Ambrosio, Gianluca Caprari and Samuele Vignato will definitely miss the match.
Raffaele Palladino will not be able to have the presence of Papu Gómez who is suspended.
Cagliari
Cagliari has mostly adopted the 4-3-1-2 line-up during the season (6 times or 21.43%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (6 times), 4-3-2-1 (5 times), 3-5-2 (5 times), 4-4-1-1 (3 times), 4-4-2 (2 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once), 4-1-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Claudio Ranieri is expected to play against Monza with the following players: Simone Scuffet, Tommaso Augello, Mateusz Wieteska, Alberto Dossena, Gabriele Zappa, Antoine Makoumbou, Alessandro Deiola, Jakub Jankto, Gaetano Oristanio, Nahitan Nández and Gianluca Lapadula.
Presuming that this will be the line-up, the resulting average age of Cagliari would be 27.64.
Claudio Ranieri will probably not be able to employ Ibrahim Sulemana because of injury.
Yerry Mina, Gianluca Gaetano, Zito Luvumbo, Marco Mancosu, Leonardo Pavoletti and Andrea Petagna will definitely miss the match.
