Genoa vs AS Roma prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-09-14 10:30.
[p]Genoa made a solid start to the new Serie A season when holding defending champions Inter Milan to a 2-2 draw, but managing just one shot on goal in a 2-0 defeat against Verona before the international break highlighted their shortcomings. A 1-0 win over Monza on matchday two ensures they remain in the top ten after three games, but manager Alberto Gilardino will be working with a depleted squad here amidst a growing injury list. [/p]
[p]The defeat to Verona ended a four game unbeaten run in home league action (W3, D1), and having scored 2+ goals in each, they’ll hope that was just a bump in the road. The hosts do at least have good memories of playing Roma at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium, beating them 4-1 last season, though it’s worth noting that was their only success across the last 18 top-flight H2Hs (D4, L13).[/p]
[p]That defeat last campaign means Roma are now in danger of losing successful league H2Hs at this venue for the first time since October 2011. Recent form does add to pre-match concerns as the visitors have won just once across their last ten competitive games (D5, L4), including going winless in the first three league matches of this campaign for the second season in a row (D2, L1).[/p]
[p]The shining light at the end of that gloomy tunnel for Daniele De Rossi’s side is that the lone win in that sequence came against none other than Genoa! Repeating the trick would need Roma to do better than their first two league trips of this campaign where they failed to score, and they are now at risk of making it three away top-flight scoring blanks in a row for the first time since February 2021.[/p]
[p]Players to watch: Against no other side has Genoa’s Ruslan Malinovskyi picked up more yellow cards than he has against Roma (three), with all those coming in his last six personal H2Hs. One player from the visiting camp who’s also likely to test the referee’s patience is Roma’s Gianluca Mancini, having been carded in his last league game as well as in two of his last three league matches against Genoa.[/p]
[p]Hot stat: At least one team scored 2+ goals in nine of Genoa’s last 11 home top-flight games.[/p]
[p][i]Written by Sridhar B[/i][/p]