Fiorentina take on the visitors Juventus in the round 11 match of Italian Serie A. The match will be played on Sunday, November 5th at Stadio Artemio Franchi (Florence).
Fiorentina are having a fairly successful season. The Violas made a successful bet on Italiano. There were doubts when Vincenzo was hired since he had little coaching experience and had not worked with top clubs before. However, there have been no reasons to regret this decision so far. The Purple Ones quickly rose to 7th place, which means they returned to European competitions. More precisely, they entered the Conference League, starting from the summer qualifiers and finishing almost a year later in the final, where they lost to West Ham. That's when there was another failure in another decisive match - the Italian Cup final against Inter. They also fell one step short in the final league table. But it's right there that La Viola got lucky: due to Juventus' disqualification, they managed to return to the Conference League. They made it through the Vienna-based Rapid in the qualifiers and defeated both Ferencvaros and Cukaricki in the group stage, although there were a couple of 2-2 draws against Genk. They managed to avoid losing in Serie A for a long time - after a 0-4 loss to Inter in the 3rd round, they had four wins with a draw against Frosinone. But then they unexpectedly lost to Empoli at home. After that, the 0-1 loss to Lazio didn't come as a surprise, although it didn't improve the mood, of course.
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Juventus experienced a decline in the previous years, and even the return of the once highly successful Allegri as the head coach didn't help. In the season before last, it was a struggle to break into the top four. Then, however, there was a worthy title race, and they could have become runners-up. But non-sporting issues intervened: the project's management was once again caught up in scandals. There was no real threat of relegation to Serie B, but they ended up minus 10 points. Later, Bianconeri received a ban from UEFA, which cleared the path for Fiorentina. Despite this blow and the departure of several players (including the scandalous split with Bonucci), they are doing quite well now. The 2-4 loss to Sassuolo was a clear exception - apart from that, there were only draws against Bologna and Atalanta, with wins in all other matches, including one against Milan.
In 2022, The Violas managed to win at home against The Old Lady and then secured a draw against them. However, The Zebras managed to get their revenge, thanks to a Rabiot goal, sealing a 1-0 win in February. The Zebras will be the favorites, even when playing away. However, this is a confrontation between two pragmatic, truly Italian teams. So, expect total under 2.5 goals in this match.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
