Our prediction for this Europa Conference League match:
Fiorentina
Match Time & Date:
28/11/2024
21:00
Prediction: 2-1
Paphos
Fiorentina play host to Paphos at their Stadio Artemio Franchi in the Conference League round 4. The Viola are brimming with confidence following a 2-0 win over Como and they are seen as hot favourites to pick up all three points from Thursday’s encounter. The likes of Lucas Beltran, Robin Gosens, Luca Ranieri, and Edoardo Bove are pushing for a start as Raffaele Palladino is expected to make changes to the starting line-up.
The Cypriotes, on the other hand, did well to beat Astana at home in their last Conference League game, but seeing that Fiorentina have turned their “Artemio Franchi” into a real fortress, anything but a routine home win would be a big surprise. Defender Jonathan Silva limped off with injury in a 2-1 win over APOEL at the weekend, with Kostas Pileas likely to sneak into Paphos’ starting eleven.
Highlighted Player (Christian Kouame):
Christian Kouame is an Ivory Coast international who has been playing for Serie A side Genoa since 2018. Kouame started his youth career at Prato and after ending his loan spells with the likes of Sassuolo and Inter, he returned to Stadio Lungobisenzio.
The 185-cm-tall forward made his professional debut with Prato on September 6, 2015 in a 2-1 loss to Pisa. Christian Kouame started the match, but he was replaced by Alberto Aladje after 66 minutes. The Genoa attacker, though, has yet to earn a call-up for the Ivory Coast national team. He has two caps for the Ivory Coast U23 team, but he is still eyeing his senior team debut.
His main position is centre-forward, but he is used as both left and right winger as well. The Genoa footballer was born in Abijan on December 6, 1997 and he has a contract with the Rossoblu until June 30, 2023.
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.
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