Verona vs Brescia Predictions

Sunday pits together two newcomers to Serie A, as Hellas Verona host Brescia. These two aren’t having the greatest campaigns as they look to avoid the drop, but can either of them win this clash and move away from the bottom three? It seems like a perfect chance for Verona, but they could be caught out by a desperate Brescia.

The hosts are fresh from a narrow 1-0 victory in midweek, they saw off Parma to move five points clear of Brescia. However, there are relegation worries for over half the league, even AC Milan are just six points ahead of the drop zone. However, that only adds more pressure onto what is a must not lose clash.

Brescia have produced their share of good results on the road this term, with all of their victories so far coming on their travels. The visitors are struggling coming into this one, although their fixture list mostly caused that. Since Brescia last won, they have met Juventus, Napoli, Fiorentina and Inter Milan in the league.

A trip to Verona is a great chance for the visitors to get a result on the board. Not only does it offer them a chance to turn things around, but also the opening to land a blow on one of their main rivals for the drop. However, Brescia will need to keep it tight if they’re to grab a win, which they’ve done in their two 1-0 away wins this term.

The away side haven’t conceded too many goals on the road, with 60% of their trips seeing fewer than three goals scored in total. Meanwhile, goal-shy Verona have seen all of their home matches fail to go past two goals. Verona have only scored seven goals in 10 games, with the majority of them coming away from home.

Given that 90% of Verona’s league games have seen fewer than three goals scored, we are backing under 2.5 goals as our tip for this one. Verona have played four sides below them this season and all of those have seen fewer than three scored, while both sides look too limited going forward to change that.

We’re also backing Brescia to land another one of those 1-0 away wins here. Verona are struggling to win games at their own ground, while they’ve failed to score in three of their five outings here. Given the low scoring form of the two sides and the two 1-0 losses which Verona have had at home, we are going with Brescia to win 1-0.