Salernitana and Bologna will face off on Saturday the 26th of February at 3:05 pm in the 27th week of the Serie A. The match is going to take place in Salerno at the Stadio Arechi. The encounter will be officiated by Giovanni Ayroldi.
Salernitana occupies the 20th place in the standings with 14 points. It comes from a 2-2 draw against Milan in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 5 times, and lost 16 times.
Bologna is in the 12th place in the standings with 31 points. It comes from a 2-1 win against Spezia in its last match in the Serie A. So far, it has won 9 times, draw 4 times, and lost 12 times.
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 29.17%).
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), 4-3-2-1 (2 times), 4-4-1-1 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (once), 4-5-1 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).
Davide Nicola is expected to play against Bologna with the following players: L. Ranieri, R. Gagliolo, G. Kastanos, F. Bonazzoli, L. Coulibaly and M. Đurić.
If the line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Salernitana would be 27.00.
There are doubts about the presence of E. Vergani.
Davide Nicola will probably not be able to employ D. Perotti and F. Ribéry because of injury.
M. Ruggeri, S. Strandberg, M. Coulibaly, I. Radovanović and A. Schiavone will definitely miss the match.
Bologna
Bologna has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (10 times or 40.00%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (10 times), 4-2-3-1 (5 times), 3-1-4-2 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 3-4-3 (once), 3-4-1-2 (once) and 4-3-3 (once).
Siniša Mihajlović is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: Ł. Skorupski, B. Soumaoro, A. Theate, G. Medel Soto, A. Hickey, J. Schouten, R. Soriano, L. De Silvestri, M. Barrow, R. Orsolini and M. Arnautović.
If the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Bologna would be 28.18.
M. Dijks, N. Domínguez and F. Santander Mereles will definitely miss the match.