Our prediction for this Serie A match:
Saturday’s football game at Stadio Artemio Franchi pits together Fiorentina and Roma, the two teams who shared the spoils with Torino and Salernitana respectively at the weekend. The Viola head into the match following the Coppa Italia final against Inter and seeing that they are with one eye on the Conference League title game against West Ham, home win should not be considered. There are no fresh injury worries in the home team ahead of the visit of Roma.
The Romans, on the other hand, did well to make it to the Europa League final, but they are eyeing a top-six finish in the Serie A as well. Anyhow, away win should be considered as Roma want this win more than Fiorentina. Serbia midfielder Nemanja Matic is pushing for a start after coming as a substitute in the 2-2 draw with Salernitana, while both Leonardo Spinazzola and Marash Kumbulla remain in the recovery room.
Highlighted Player (Andrea Belotti):
Andrea Belotti began his youth career at Grumellese at the age of 10 and after spending three years at the club, he joined Albinolefe in 2006. As expected, he made his senior debut for the club on 10 March, 2012 and it has to be noted that the Italian striker scored 14 goals in 37 league appearances for the Seriani. Belotti, who was born on 20 December, 1993, joined Palermo on loan in 2013 and in July, 2014 the Sicilian outfit turned his loan move to a co-ownership.
The Italian attacker scored 16 goals for Palermo in 62 league appearances for the club and on 18 August, 2015 he signed a deal with Torino for a fee of €7.5 million.
Three months later he scored first goal in the Italian top flight for Torino and he helped the team record a 2-0 win over Bologna. Andrea Belotti has 18 caps for Italy U21 and he scored nine goals for the team.
Highlighted Team (Fiorentina):
AC Fiorentina was founded on 29th of August in 1926 after a fusion between Libertas and CS Firenze. Currently Fiorentina is playing his home games in the Stadio Artemio Franchi in Florence which can accommodate 47282 supporters. The stadium was build in 1931 by Pier Luigi Nervi. De first prize ever won by Fiorentina was the CoppaItalia in the season of 1939/1940. The first Scudetto (name for the Serie A title) was in 1955/1956. One of the most important players in that season was the Brazilian Juninho. In 1996 he was rewarded as the best player in club history.
One year later Fiorentina lost the semi finals in the European Cup 1 against Real Madrid. During that period of time Fiorentina won the Europan Cup 2 against Glasgow Rangers and the Coppa Italia as well. In total Fiorentina won the league title twice.
Important football players that played for Fiorentina are: Batistuta, Baggio, Effenberg, Laudrup, Mijatovic and Rui Costa.