Fiorentina vs AC Milan prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-10-05 18:45.
[p]Fiorentina endured a miserable start to the 2024/25 campaign, failing to win any of their first six matches inside 90 minutes (D5, L1), but things are starting to improve under new boss Raffaele Palladino. A three-game unbeaten run (W2, D1), including a 2-0 win over Welsh champions The New Saints in their UEFA Conference League opener on Thursday – which was their 100th victory in European competition – should have the Viola faithful confident of climbing the Serie A table.[/p]
[p]Back-to-back clean sheets for the first time since April should bolster that faith, but their latest 0-0 draw in Serie A against local rivals Empoli was already their fourth top-flight stalemate this term – they were only held to nine in the entirety of last season’s league campaign! Encouragingly though, the hosts remain unbeaten in their last 12 home matches across all competitions (W7, D5).[/p]
[p]Visitors AC Milan will be happy to remind the hosts that they were the last team to beat Fiorentina at Stadio Artemio Franchi back in March (W2-1). And three consecutive Serie A victories – scoring nine goals in the process, eight of which arrived before half-time – will give them reason to believe they could repeat such a feat. [/p]
[p]However, Paulo Fonseca’s men were unable to repeat their domestic heroics in the UEFA Champions League in midweek, as they were beaten 1-0 by Bayer Leverkusen to make it back-to-back defeats in that competition. That continued an alarming run that’s seen the Rossoneri fail to win away from the San Siro in their last seven such matches (D3, L4).[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Andrea Colpani will be desperate to open his scoring account for Fiorentina. He has netted each of his eight Serie A goals last term at home, with four of the last six arriving inside the opening 35 minutes. Tammy Abraham netted his one and only goal for Milan in that time period too, yet seven of his last ten strikes in Serie A came beyond the hour mark.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: Fiorentina have conceded a joint-league high seven goals before the break ahead of this round.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Tomáš Vlasák[/i][/p]