Atalanta vs Hellas Verona Preview: Team News & Prediction
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Hellas Verona are destined for the drop as Serie A’s basement club now travel to a humiliated Atalanta side to the New Balance Arena on Sunday afternoon.
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Atalanta preview: Humiliated Bergamasci
Raffaele Palladino and his Atalanta players got a positive reception after their 6-0 defeat to Bayern Munich at home about ten days or so ago – but they were humiliated again, succumbing to a 10-1 aggregate loss in the UEFA Champions League round of 16.
That means that the Bergamasci are now winless in their last six matches across all competitions. Their most recent outing in Serie A saw them share a 1-1 draw with league leaders Internazionale at San Siro last weekend.
Hellas Verona preview: Woeful Verona
Hellas Verona begin this weekend’s round of fixtures sitting rock-bottom in the Serie A table and they are nine points adrift of Lecce with nine games to go, having managed just three victories throughout the campaign.
The visitors come into this one on the back of a 2-0 defeat to Genoa at the Bentegodi in their most recent outing last week due to second-half goals scored by Vitinha and Leo Ostigard.
Atalanta team news: Fully fit
Ahead of the visit of Hellas Verona to Bergamo this weekend, Atalanta have a fully fit and available squad and so they will be able to name an unchanged eleven for this one.
Predicted XI (3-4-2-1): Carnesecchi; Scalvini, Djimsiti, Kolasinac; Zappacosta, De Roon, Pasalic, Bernasconi; Samardzic, Zalewski; Scamacca
Unavailable:
Questionable:
Hellas Verona team news: Several doubts
Verona are dealing with several doubts for this weekend as Armel Bella-Kotchap is potentially sidelined alongside Tobias Slotsager, Domagoj Bradaric, Sandi Lovric and Antoine Bernede.
Predicted XI (3-5-2): Montipo; Edmundsson, Nelsson, Valentini; Oyegoke, Akpa-Akpro, Gagliardini, Harroui, Frese; Orban, Bowie
Unavailable: Serdar (Injured)
Questionable: Bella-Kotchap (Injured), Slotsager (Injured), Bradaric (Injured), Lovric (Injured), Bernede (Injured)
Hellas Verona vs Atalanta prediction
Atalanta are winless in six matches. However, a third of those games have come against a relentless Bayern Munich side and three of the other four have been draws – with one away at Inter and one away at Lazio in the first-leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final. Verona are destined for the drop and have been very poor for a few seasons. Atalanta should ease themselves to a comfortable victory in Bergamo.
Hellas Verona vs Atalanta tip: Atalanta to win -1 handicap
