VER vs BOG Dream11: Bologna travels to Verona for the penultimate Serie A fixture in the 2020/21 season. Both sides are firmly in mid-table and mathematically can neither aim for Europe nor worry about relegation. All that is left to play for is a top-half finish to boost morale. Verona hasn’t won a game of football since the first week of April and has tasted defeat 5 times since then. Bologna hasn’t been much better themselves with just 1 win in April and May. They do, however, have 3 draws and 1 win from their last 6 games.
Date: 18th May, Tuesday
Kick-Off: 12:15 am (IST)
Venue: Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi, Verona
Serie A Table: Hellas Verona is in 10th place with Bologna in 11th.
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Recent Form
Hellas Verona: LLDDL
Bologna: DLDDL
Head-to-Head (last 5 meetings):
Hellas Verona – 0
Draw – 2
Bologna – 3
VER vs BOG Today Match Prediction Details
Hellas Verona News
Injury Report and Unavailability:
• Ivan Juric’s side has no fresh injuries as loanee, Ronaldo Vieira, continues to remain side-lined.
Expected Changes and Strategy:
• Federico Dimarco should be back in defence to replace Pawel Dawidowicz.
• Kevin Reugg should be dropped for this fixture as Darko Lazovic takes his place in midfield.
• The front three of Antonin Barak, Mattia Zaccagni and Nikola Kalinic should remain intact.
Hellas Verona Starting XI (likely)
Ivor Pandur (GK)
Federico Ceccherini
Koray Gunter
Federico Dimarco
Marco Davide Faraoni
Adrien Tameze
Ivan Ilic
Darko Lazovic
Antonin Barak
Mattia Zaccagni
Nikola Kalinic
Bologna News
Injury Report and Unavailability:
• Bologna doesn’t have any fresh injuries either as Aaron Hickey misses out in defence.
• Midfielders, Gary Medel and Nicolas Dominguez are out with muscular injuries and a knee injury respectively.
• Federico Santander will be unavailable through a knee injury as well.
Expected Changes and Strategy:
• Valentin Antov is likely to replace Danilo in the centre-back position.
• Roberto Soriano will drop deeper and partner Jerdy Schouten in the midfield pivot.
• Emanuel Vignato re-enters the attacking midfield alongside Musa Barrow and Riccardo Orsolini.
Bologna Starting XI (likely)
Federico Ravaglia (GK)
Takehiro Tomiyasu
Valentin Antov
Adama Soumaoro
Mitchell Dijks
Jerdy Schouten
Roberto Soriano
Riccardo Orsolini
Emanuel Vignato
Musa Barrow
Rodrigo Palacio
Captain Options
Roberto Soriano – The Italian international has been great for Bologna this season. He has 9 goals and 6 assists in Serie A. Soriano has also completed 58 chances, attempted 19 shots on target and succeeded in 36 dribbles (65% completion rate). The versatile midfielder will be the biggest threat for Verona.
Antonin Barak – Barak has been involved in 10 goal contributions (7 goals and 3 assists for Hellas Verona in Serie A. He has created 28 chances, attempted 17 shots on target and succeeded in 26 dribbles (63% completion rate). He also managed to assist the equalizing goal in their recent fixture against Torino.
