Fiorentina vs Spezia prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2023-04-07 12:30.
On a high after a 2-0 Coppa Italia semi-final first-leg victory over Cremonese, Fiorentina return to Serie A (SA) action looking to continue their momentum as they make a late charge towards the European spots. Cups appear Fiorentina’s best road into Europe this season, with La Viola still battling in the UEFA Europa Conference League too, but with five successive SA wins, they’re eyeing up the top-six as well!
In fact, those five SA wins form part of an incredible nine-match winning run in all competitions, with Fiorentina now having the chance to stretch that into double figures and clock up a sixth-straight league win for the first time since April 2018 in the process. You’d have to fancy them against Spezia too, against whom they’re unbeaten in SA action (W4, D1), scoring at least twice in all five games.
Loitering dangerously close to the SA drop-zone, Spezia are in need of a result to stretch their six-point cushion to 18th-place Verona. Their survival bid certainly hasn’t been aided by a dismal run of just one win in ten SA games (D4, L5), but considering they’ve lost just one of the last five in that run since the appointment of Leonardo Semplici (W1, D3), there are signs of life as Spezia battle to secure a fourth-straight top-flight campaign.
However as Spezia’s last two SA visits to Fiorentina ended in 3-0 defeats, confidence can’t be high of keeping their uptick in form going, especially for a side who have scored just eight away league goals all season. Where there’s Semplici there’s hope for Spezia at the moment, but that may not quite be the case here, with their saviour himself failing to beat Fiorentina across six personal H2Hs (D3, L3).
Players to watch: Fiorentina’s Arthur Cabral was on the scoresheet in midweek with his fourth successive goal to arrive inside the opening hour, but he left it late in the reverse fixture, netting a 90th minute winner. Any Spezia hopes of an away goal likely fall on M'Bala Nzola, with the Angolan scoring five of their eight away league goals this term.
Hot stat: Spezia are the only SA side not to score a league goal on their travels after the 75th minute.