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Fiorentina vs Genoa

Competition – Serie A

Stadium – Artemio Franchi

Date: 17th January 2022

Kick-off time – 19:45 GMT

Fiorentina will welcome Genoa to the Stadio Artemio Franchi this Monday evening for their 22nd round game of the 2021/22 Serie A season.

The hosts who are unbeaten in their last seven home games (W6, D1) come into this tie without a win in their last three Serie A games (D2, L1).

However, they were back to winning ways during the week in the Coppa Italia beating title-chasing Napoli 5-2 on Thursday to book their place in the next round of the cup competition. Goals from Lorenzo Venuti, Krzysztof Piatek and Youssef Maleh in extra time gave the ‘Purples’ the win after the two teams played out a 2-2 draw in normal time.

Vincenzo Italiano’s side have not won a league game since winning three consecutive league games late last year. They were beaten 4-0 by Torino in their last league outing – a game that saw them fail to score in a football game for the first time since a 1-0 loss to Juventus in November last year.

The hosts come into this round of games sitting in seventh place, three points behind sixth-placed Lazio. They remain in the hunt for a top-six finish and will be desperate to pick up maximum points on this occasion to boost their chances of achieving their season’s aim.

Meanwhile, Genoa who are winless in their last 13 Serie A games (D9, L4) come into this tie fresh from a disappointing 3-1 loss to AC Milan in the Coppa Italia.

The visitors nearly produced a historical shock result in their last outing as they held Milan to a 1-1 draw in normal time in the Coppa Italia. Andriy Shevchenko’s side took the lead early in the first half through Leo Ostergard. But Stefano Pioli’s side equalised late in the game through Olivier Giroud, before Rafael Leao and Alexis Saelemaekers sealed the win for the hosts in extra time.

Genoa will now look to build on that Milan performance when they travel to Florence this Monday however having won just one of their opening 21 games this season, they come into this tie as outsiders.

Only a big performance will give them a win in this game while a draw would also be a fair result as they are sitting in 19th place, five points behind Venezia in 17th.

This game gets underway at 19:45 BST.

Other fixtures taking place this week in Serie A:

October 26, 2024
Bologna 16:00 AC Milan
November 23, 2024
Verona 15:00 Inter Milan
AC Milan 18:00 Juventus
Parma 20:45 Atalanta
November 24, 2024
Genoa 12:30 Cagliari
Como 15:00 Fiorentina
Torino 15:00 Monza
SSC Napoli 18:00 Roma
Lazio 20:45 Bologna
November 25, 2024
Empoli 18:30 Udinese
Venezia 20:45 Lecce
November 29, 2024
Cagliari 20:45 Verona
November 30, 2024
Como 15:00 Monza
AC Milan 18:00 Empoli
Bologna 20:45 Venezia
December 1, 2024
Udinese 12:30 Genoa
Parma 15:00 Lazio
Torino 15:00 SSC Napoli
Fiorentina 18:00 Inter Milan
Lecce 20:45 Juventus

Serie A Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 SSC Napoli 12 8 2 2 19 9 +10 26
2 Atalanta 12 8 1 3 31 15 +16 25
3 Fiorentina 12 7 4 1 25 10 +15 25
4 Inter Milan 12 7 4 1 26 14 +12 25
5 Lazio 12 8 1 3 25 14 +11 25
6 Juventus 12 6 6 0 21 7 +14 24
7 AC Milan 11 5 3 3 20 14 +6 18
8 Bologna 11 4 6 1 15 13 +2 18
9 Udinese 12 5 1 6 15 18 -3 16
10 Empoli 12 3 6 3 9 10 -1 15
11 Torino 12 4 2 6 15 18 -3 14
12 Roma 12 3 4 5 14 17 -3 13
13 Parma 12 2 6 4 16 18 -2 12
14 Verona 12 4 0 8 17 27 -10 12
15 Como 12 2 4 6 13 23 -10 10
16 Cagliari 12 2 4 6 12 22 -10 10
17 Genoa 12 2 4 6 9 22 -13 10
18 Lecce 12 2 3 7 5 21 -16 9
19 Monza 12 1 5 6 10 15 -5 8
20 Venezia 12 2 2 8 11 21 -10 8

Serie A Results

November 10, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 1 SSC Napoli
Monza 0 - 1 Lazio
Roma 2 - 3 Bologna
Fiorentina 3 - 1 Verona
Atalanta 2 - 1 Udinese
November 9, 2024
Juventus 2 - 0 Torino
Cagliari 3 - 3 AC Milan
Venezia 1 - 2 Parma
November 8, 2024
Lecce 1 - 1 Empoli
November 7, 2024
Genoa 1 - 1 Como
November 4, 2024
Lazio 2 - 1 Cagliari
Empoli 1 - 0 Como
Parma 0 - 1 Genoa
November 3, 2024
Inter Milan 1 - 0 Venezia
Verona 3 - 2 Roma
Torino 0 - 1 Fiorentina
SSC Napoli 0 - 3 Atalanta
November 2, 2024
Monza 0 - 1 AC Milan
Udinese 0 - 2 Juventus
Bologna 1 - 0 Lecce

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