🔴🔵 Genoa vs Hellas Verona 🟡🔵
Genoa have won their last two Serie A matches against Hellas Verona (both matches last season); the Grifone could string together three consecutive victories against the Gialloblu team for only the second time in the tournament, after the first three ever encounters in the competition played between 1957 and 1974.
In the 32 total matches between the two teams (13 wins to nine for Genoa and 10 draws), only two of the nine victories snatched by Hellas Verona against the Rossoblu in Serie A have come at the Luigi Ferraris: the last on 3 December 1989, thanks to the decisive goal by Alfonso Bertozzi; since then, two draws and seven away defeats for the Venetians, including the most recent one last November (1-0).
Genoa have remained unbeaten in the first two matches of this championship (a draw against Inter and a win against Monza); Grifone could go undefeated in their first three Serie A games of the season for the first time since 2011/12: one draw and two wins in that case, with Alberto Malesani on the bench.
Genoa have not lost any of their last four home league games (3W, 1D); in that period, among the teams that have played at least four home games in Serie A, no team has collected more points (10 for the rossoblù, equal with Lazio) and only Milan has scored more goals (13) than the Ligurians (nine, like Fiorentina and Atalanta).
Hellas Verona lost their last league match against Juventus; the last time they recorded two defeats in a row in Serie A dates back to the period between December 2023 and January 2024 (against Salernitana and Inter in that case).
Hellas Verona won their last away game of last season, played against Salernitana (2-1); the Gialloblù have not collected two consecutive away wins in Serie A since April 2022 (against Atalanta and Cagliari), under Igor Tudor.
Excluding own goals, all of Genoa's last 11 goals in Serie A have been scored by different players (Thorsby, Frendrup, Gudmundsson, Retegui, Ekuban, Badelj, Malinovskyi, Vitinha, Vogliacco, Messias and Pinamonti): of these 11 goals, eight have come at the Luigi Ferraris.
Genoa is, along with Atalanta, one of the two teams to have scored the most goals from set pieces in Serie A this season: two, both scored on matchday one against Inter.
Curious detail: All of Junior Messias' last four goals in Serie A have come in home games and in the final 10 minutes of play (from the 80th minute onwards), including the one scored in this championship, in the first round, against Inter (94:42, less late in the current tournament only than Okafor's against Torino at 94:46).
