Lazio vs Verona prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2025-08-30 18:45.
[p]Lazio’s tough summer continued with an opening day defeat in Serie A, so they’ll be looking to open their account against Hellas Verona.[/p]
[p]Match News and Current Form[/p]
[p]With the club under a transfer embargo, it perhaps wasn’t a great surprise to see Lazio outplayed and beaten 2-0 by Como on the opening weekend. Having missed out on European qualification on the final day last term, boss Maurizio Sarri will be desperate to end the negative cycle that the club seems to be in. A return of just one win from their last 12 home league games hardly inspires confidence (D8, L3), with that streak made all the more surprising given that they’d won ten of their 12 such outings prior (D2).[/p]
[p]The expectations are far lower for Hellas Verona, who’ve finished in the bottom half in each of the previous three seasons. The Mastiffs enjoyed a typically low-key start to the campaign when drawing 1-1 with Udinese, though that result stretched their unbeaten league run to four matches (W1, D3). Verona will be keen to get their first league win of the season soon, as only twice in their six top-flight campaigns since promotion have they failed to emerge victorious from either of their first two Serie A fixtures.[/p]
[p]Head-to-Head History[/p]
[p]Lazio have won three successive H2Hs, while they’ve avoided defeat in 16 of their last 17 matches against Verona on home turf (W12, D4). The capital club have a great scoring record in this fixture too, netting in 22 of the last 23 Serie A H2Hs (G51).[/p]
[p]Hot Stats and Streaks[/p]
[p]Ahead of the round, only Venezia (ten) have drawn more Serie A games in 2025 than Lazio (nine).[/p]
[p]Pre-round, Lazio have received a league-high 99 cards since the start of last season (YC92, RC7).[/p]
[p]Verona sit second on that list, receiving 98 cards (YC88, RC10).[/p]
[p]Just one of Verona’s last 11 away league matches have produced over 2.5 goals.[/p]
[p]Key Players to Watch and Missing Players[/p]
[p]Taty Castellanos scored the decisive goal in last season’s corresponding fixture – his nine scoring appearances for Lazio in Serie A last season came in games that produced an average of 3.89 total goals. Verona’s Giovane assisted his side’s equaliser last week and drama normally follows when he’s on the scoresheet as his three senior goals have come in either first or last ten minutes of the game.[/p]
[p]Alessio Romagnoli remains suspended for Lazio, while Verona will be sweating on the fitness of last week’s scorer Suat Serdar who was withdrawn with an injury late on.[/p]
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[p]Betting Analysis[/p]
[p]With neither side in full flow yet, backing Lazio to win with under 2.5 total goals could be smart.[/p]
[p][i]Author: Ryan Fisher[/i][/p]