Udinese vs Salernitana prediction: ITALY: Serie A betting tips on match 2024-03-01 14:00.
After eleven successive Serie A draws against current bottom-half clubs this season, Udinese finally experienced a different result at the weekend, losing 2-0 at Genoa in a game that head coach Gabriele Cioffi called “the worst match of his management”. Entering this round only three points above the relegation zone, the Little Zebras will hope to register their first victory of the campaign against a team sitting 11th or below as rock-bottom Salernitana come to town.
Despite a ten-point gap between these sides, this encounter might not be as straightforward as it seems, as Udinese have won just one league match at Stadio Friuli this term (D8, L4), having also failed to score a single goal in two previous home H2Hs (D1, L1) since Salernitana’s long-awaited return to the top flight.
Following the sacking of Filippo Inzaghi earlier in February, new manager Fabio Liverani hasn’t given Salernitana a much-hoped-for boost as they’ve suffered back-to-back defeats ’to nil’ during his embryonic tenure. That stretched the team’s winless streak to nine competitive games (D1, L8) and incredibly led to some dissenting voices calling for the swift return of Inzaghi to the hot seat due to the lack of any positive change in the style of play.
Liverani was eventually backed up by the board after those murmurings but the challenge now is to try and bring life to a squad that has already lost 17 of 26 league matches this season, leaving them seven points adrift of safety. The visitors are therefore unsurprisingly one of the division’s worst travellers in 2023/24, scoring only seven goals across their 12 games (W1, D3, L8) – the lowest total in Serie A this campaign.
Players to watch: Lazar Samardžić has scored seven of his ten goals for Udinese after half-time, including the opener in the reverse fixture, while Boulaye Dia netted the equaliser for Salernitana that day and has also scored six of his last seven goals in the second half.
Hot stat: Four of Udinese’s last six matches have seen exactly two goals scored before the break.