Salernitana and Sassuolo will face off on Saturday the 12th of March at 3:00 pm in the 29th week of the Serie A. The match is going to be staged in Salerno at the Stadio Arechi. The appointed referee is Luca Massimi.

Salernitana occupies the 20th position in the table with 15 points. It comes from a 5-0 loss against Inter in its last match in the Serie A. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 6 times, and lost 17 times.​​

Sassuolo is in the 10th place in the table with 39 points. It comes from a 1-4 win against Venezia in its last match in the Serie A. Until now, it has won 10 times, draw 8 times, and lost 9 times.​​

Sassuolo won the last 3 consecutive matches. The last time it lost was on the 6th of February against Sampdoria and the score was 4-0.

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 26.92%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-1-2 (7 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 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), 4-5-1 (once), 4-3-3 (once) and 5-4-1 (once).

Davide Nicola is expected to play against Sassuolo with the following players: V. Belec, L. Ranieri, R. Gagliolo, N. Zortea, E. Vergani, L. Coulibaly, I. Radovanović, G. Kastanos, F. Bonazzoli and M. Đurić.

Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Salernitana would be 27.20.

Davide Nicola will probably not be able to employ M. Coulibaly because of injury.

S. Strandberg, F. Ribéry and A. Schiavone will definitely miss the match.

Sassuolo​

Sassuolo has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (18 times or 66.67%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (18 times), 4-3-3 (8 times) and 4-1-4-1 (once).

Alessio Dionisi is expected to play against Salernitana with the following players: A. Consigli, G. Kiriakopoulos, G. Ferrari, M. Müldür, M. Lopez, D. Frattesi, H. Traorè, G. Raspadori, D. Berardi and G. Scamacca.

Granting that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Sassuolo would be 25.70.

There are doubts about the presence of V. Chiricheș.

R. Oliveira da Silva, F. Romagna, J. Toljan, F. Đuričić, P. Mba Obiang Avomo and N. Schiappacasse Oliva will definitely miss the match.