Monza vs Cagliari prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2025-01-04 11:30.
[p]Monza’s prospects of extending their Serie A stay into a fourth successive season are looking increasingly bleak, with their woeful form so far this term seeing them rooted to the bottom of the table. The Biancorossi have managed just one league win all season (D7, L10), with each of their four most recent fixtures ending in 2-1 defeats.[/p]
[p]The home side now face the prospect of losing a fifth successive Serie A outing – a fate they’ve succumbed to just once before (August – September 2022). Perhaps more significant would be the damage any potential loss would do to their fleeting survival hopes, with upcoming opponents Cagliari just four points clear of Salvatore Bocchetti’s men in 18th ahead of the round. [/p]
[p]But Cagliari won’t travel to Stadio Brianteo in a confident mood after enduring their own losing run of four league matches. They scored just a single goal across those fixtures, and the gloom of both those aspects is only amplified by a rotten H2H run against Monza, with just one win secured across the previous six meetings in Italy’s top two divisions (D3, L2). [/p]
[p]Although it looks set to be another slog to the finish line for the Islanders this season, they can take some comfort from matching their points tally at this stage last season with an identical record, even down to goals scored and conceded (W3, D5, L10 – GF16, GA 31)! Cagliari avoided the drop by a point that season and started the new calendar year back then unbeaten in their opening two league matches (W1, D1) so they likely need to start with a positive result here to repeat their survival target. [/p]
[p]Players to watch: Monza’s Daniel Maldini returned from suspension last time out, and while he has just one league goal all season, he did net the winner in the last H2H here (1-0). Forward Leonardo Pavoletti netted in Cagliari’s last away outing, finally breaking his scoring duck in Serie A which stretched back to December 2023![/p]
[p]Hot stat: Monza scored more than a single goal in just one of their last ten home league matches (D3, L7).[/p]
[p][i]Written by David H[/i][/p]