Cagliari vs Fiorentina prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2025-04-20 13:00.
[p]A return of one win from their last eight Serie A matches (D3, L4) means Cagliari remain in the thick of a survival scrap. After a 3-1 defeat at league leaders Inter last week, the Islanders’ gap to the drop zone was reduced to just six points, so they’ll be grateful of a return to home comforts where they thrashed bottom-of-the-table Monza 3-0 most recently.[/p]
[p]Cagliari last won back-to-back home league matches in November 2023, and doing so again looks tricky against a Fiorentina side they’re winless in eight Serie A H2Hs against (D3, L5). That run includes six failures to score, but Davide Nicola’s side have only blanked in one of their six home matches in 2025 (W3, D1, L2), so should be confident of at the very least putting up a fight similar to last season’s corresponding fixture (L 3-2).[/p]
[p]That contest ended in dramatic fashion as Fiorentina scored in the 89th and 103rd minute to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat! La Viola will hope for a more straightforward evening here having avoided defeat in their last seven matches across all competitions (W4, D3), most recently drawing 2-2 with Celje to progress to the semi-finals of the UEFA Conference League (Agg: 4-3).[/p]
[p]Raffaele Palladino’s men will have to divert their attention from continental action as they continue to chase a top-six finish in Serie A. Undermining those efforts is recent travel sickness in Serie A, with Fiorentina winning just one of their last eight league games on the road (D2, L5), with a mere 19 of their 53 points this term earned away from home (W5, D4, L6).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: All four of Nicolas Viola’s direct goal contributions this season have come on home soil (G3, A1), with two of those goals coming in Cagliari’s last two matches on their own turf. Moise Kean has scored five goals in his last five starts for club and country – four of his five Serie A strikes to arrive on the road this term came before half-time.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: There have been 3+ total match goals in eight of Fiorentina’s last nine away games across all competitions.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tom Penn[/i][/p]