Wednesday, at 18:00, Lazio will receive Udinese’s visit in a still match for the 25th Serie A. The match will take place at the “Stadio Olimpico” in Rome.
This confrontation seems to be the ideal opportunity for Lazio to rejoin the teams that attack Europe. Although “biancocelestii” were seriously in books even to dethrone AC Milan from the 4th position, the last one in the UCL group, the last results of Simone Inzaghi’s band were disappointing. With just one point from the last nine, Lazio fell again on the 8th place, still having this “in the sleeve”, the remaining match with Udinese. Even so, there are not many reasons for joy for the capitolites. Without winning four matches, they will receive a team visit in at least as hungry points as they do. The “friuli Bianconeri” is more than familiar to them “Stadio Olimpico” because they suffered a failure Saturday night against Rome after a tortured game in which the weather did not favor the expected show.
In the last ten direct confrontations between the two bands, Lazio imposed himself eight times, Udinese only once, while a single duel ended in a tie;
The previous success of the “friuli bianconers” in front of Lazio dates back to September 2014, from a 1-0 record on “Olimpico”;
The last direct match took place on the “Dacia Arena” tour, when Lazio reached the limit, score 2-1;
Probable teams:
Lazio (3-5-2): Strakosha; Luiz Felipe, Acerbi, Bastos; Romulo, Luis Alberto, Lucas Leiva, Milinkovic-Savic, Lulic; Caicedo, Immobile
Udinese (3-5-2): Musso; De Maio, Troost-Ekong, Samir; Stryger Larsen, Fofana, Mandragora, De Paul, D’Alessandro; Okaka, Lasagna
Given the circumstances of this game, we expect a balanced deployment of hostilities. Seeing Lazio as one of the most inconsistent teams in Serie A at the moment, we think this is not a good opportunity to focus on a success of the hosts, nor on a spectacular scenario. Instead, we think Udinese will resist the resistance and we will see a more balanced outcome than the odds show.
PREDICTION: Lazio to win @ 1,35
