Our prediction for this Serie A match:
Stadio Comunale Luigi Ferraris will host Saturday’s Serie A game between Genoa and Torino, the two mid-table sides. Genoa are undefeated in the previous four league matches and they are surely capable of making life difficult for Il Toro in front of home fans. Morten Thorsby remains on the sidelines with injury, but he should be the only absentee in the home team.
The visitors, on the other hand, quickly bounced back from a 1-0 loss to Torino, with the team rolling over Napoli 3-0 in front of home fans. Genoa, though, are tough to beat at home, which is probably the main reason why we are going to place our bets on draw. Perr Schuurs continues to miss out with injury as well as Beanou-Junior Soppy and Nemanja Radonjic. You should know that under 2.5 goals have been netted in three of the last four meetings between the two sides in the Italian top flight.
Highlighted Player (Duvan Zapata):
Duvan Zapata was born in Cali, Colombia on 1 April, 1991. The 186-cm-tall attacker started his youth career at America de Cali, playing for the club between 2004 and 2008. In 2008 he made his debut for the first team and three years later he scored his first hat-trick for the Colombian outfit, in a 3-2 win over Deportivo Pereira.
In 2011 he signed a loan deal with Estudiantes and he found the net for the Argentine team on his debut against Belgrano. After scoring 11 goals in 37 appearances for Estudiantes, the Colombian striker joined Napoli in 2013, but he failed to establish himself as a first-choice attacker.
On 22 July, 2015 Zapata joined fellow Serie A team Udinese on loan and it has to be noted that he scored eight goals in 24 league appearances for the Zebrette. Duvan Zapata has 5 caps for Colombia U20 team, but he has yet to make his debut for the senior side.
Highlighted Team (Genoa):
Genoa Football Club is an Italian football club founded in 1893 and is the oldest Italian football club in the nation. The club plays its home games in the Stadio Luigi Ferraris which holds a capacity of 41 000 seats. Genoa FC shares the stadium with their rival UC Sampdoria. The club colors of Genoa are Red and Blue. Genoa FC is also known as Grifoni.
Genoa FC has a very rich football history. The club won the Serie A in 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902, 1903, 1904, 1915, 1923 and 1924.Since 1924 the club didn’t won any major prizes. Like almost every football club in Italy the Genoa FC history has it’s black pages as well. Important players in the history of Genoa FC are: Gilardino, Toni and Hernan Crespo.