Stadio Giuseppe Meazza is the venue as Inter Milan and Lazio lock horns in a high-stakes Serie A top-four six-pointer. Despite cruising to a 3-0 victory at Empoli last weekend, Inter’s top-four hopes are still up in the air as they come into this matchday trailing fourth-placed AC Milan by two points. Simone Inzaghi’s men are responsible for suffering three consecutive top-flight home games ‘to nil’ for the first time in the club’s history, so they’ll be keen to make amends this weekend. Another defeat, though, would see them lose four times in a row at Meazza for the first time this century. However, ‘I Nerazzurri’ have overcome Lazio in their last three Serie A home clashes, which forms part of their supreme overall H2H record as hosts (W46, D29, L11). Confidence has been restored following a 2-1 aggregate win over Juventus in their blockbuster Coppa Italia semi-final, meaning Inter will be out to make things right. However, Lazio emerged 3-1 winners in the reverse fixture and will be gunning for their first Serie A double over last season’s runners-up since 2012/13. Despite being knocked down from an eight-match unbeaten league streak by a 1-0 home defeat to mid-table Torino in the previous round (W7, D1), ‘I Biancocelesti’ are still relatively safe in a top-four race, boasting a five-point lead on fifth-placed Roma. Desperate to secure Champions League football for only the second time since 2007/08, Maurizio Sarri’s men can draw inspiration from going five consecutive Serie A away matches without conceding (W3, D2), a feat only achieved by two more clubs in the competition’s long history. Indeed, Lazio’s defensive solidity has been off the charts this season, with only Barcelona matching their stunning haul of 21 conceded goals in Europe’s top-five leagues. The post Inter Milan vs Lazio appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Inter Milan vs Lazio
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A closely-contested race for European placings is heating up in the Bundesliga as Wolfsburg and Mainz go head-to-head at the Volkswagen Arena. Wolfsburg boss Niko Kovac heaped praise on his side following a 5-1 demolition of Bochum last weekend after his team netted at least five times in three separate Bundesliga fixtures for the first time since their 2008/09 title-winning season. Having lost just once in their last eight league outings (W3, D4), ‘Die Wolfe’ may miss out on another title celebration, yet European qualification remains on the cards. But the hosts must rediscover their winning touch at home to bolster their top-six hopes after going winless in their last six top-flight home matches (D4, L2) since humbling Freiburg 6-0 in January. Given that Wolfsburg emerged victorious 5-0 in their previous encounter here, and considering that none of the last four head-to-head matches held at this venue have witnessed less than 2.5 goals, it is likely that this fixture will provide some entertainment. In the meantime, visiting Mainz came frm behind to beat perennial champions Bayern Munich 3-1 at home last time out, maintaining a two-point distance from seventh-placed Bayer Leverkusen. Inspired by a mind-blowing ten-match unbeaten run in the top-flight (W6, D4), Bo Svensson’s men come into proceedings, seeking only their second league win at Wolfsburg in their last nine visits (W1, D3, L5). Consistency hasn’t been Mainz’s strong suit on the road in 2023 by any stretch of the imagination, as their six away league matches this calendar year have fluctuated between different outcomes (W2, D3, L1). With just one clean sheet across those six travels, the visitors may have to rely on their scoring prowess to get the job done. The post Wolfsburg vs Mainz appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Wolfsburg vs Mainz Manchester City’s bid to defend the Premier League title for the second season in a row takes them to Craven Cottage to meet mid-table Fulham this weekend. Not long ago, it looked like Fulham could win European promotion against the odds. However, the wheels fell off, with Marco Silva’s side suffering five defeats in their last seven league outings (W2), including a 1-0 loss at Aston Villa in midweek Premier League action. Back to Elland Road, where they ousted Leeds United 2-1 in their most recent match-up to snap a three-match winless league streak on home turf (D1, L2), the ‘Cottagers’ face a traditionally formidable opponent. Indeed, they’ve gone winless in their last 15 top-flight encounters against Man City (D3, L12), going down 3-0 in this corresponding fixture in 2021/22. Another disappointment is on the cards after Fulham failed to keep a clean sheet in their last eight league games, conceding an average of 1.62 goals per match. In the meantime, Manchester City wrestled back control of the Premier League title race with an overwhelming 4-1 home victory over Arsenal in midweek, making it 17 straight competitive fixtures without losing (W14, D3). In the Premier League alone, Pep Guardiola’s high-flyers have won their last seven matches by an aggregate score of 22-4, reducing the gap on Arsenal to only two points with two games in hand. Having qualified for the Champions League semi-finals and the FA Cup grand final, the ‘Citizens’ are in contention to equal Manchester United’s historic treble from 1998/99 and become only the second English side to achieve that feat. Confidence is oozing out of every pore as Guardiola’s men take this trip having recorded a pair of 4-1 victories on their last three league travels. The post Fulham vs Manchester City appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Fulham vs Manchester City Estadio Santiago Bernabeu plays host to a lopsided La Liga encounter between second-placed Real Madrid and relegation-battling Almeria. Real Madrid’s faint hopes of defending the league crown suffered a knockout blow in midweek La Liga action as newly-promoted Girona humbled Carlo Ancelotti’s side 4-2, leaving them 11 points adrift of Barcelona with only seven games left. The impending home return should help ‘Los Blancos’ recover ahead of their Champions League semi-final tie against Manchester City, considering they’ve only lost one of their 15 top-flight outings at the Bernabeu this season (W10, D4). Irrespective of their recent form woes, Ancelotti’s men have been too hot to handle in the front third, netting 2+ goals in their last four home league matches. That should solidify Madrid’s bid to maintain a 100% win ratio in top-flight home meetings with Almeria (6/6), with this marking their first H2H in the capital since 2015. In the meantime, visiting Almeria scored on either side of halftime to topple Getafe 2-1 on the road last time out and arrest a two-game losing league run, steering two points away from the relegation zone. Yet that exact scoreline condemned them to defeat in the reverse H2H, extending their losing league run against Madrid to six games. Interestingly, that triumph at Getafe marked their first La Liga triumph on hostile turf this season, following a woeful run of 14 winless travels (D4, L10). Moreover, that was their first top-flight away victory over sides Comunidad de Madrid after going winless in their first 22 such match-ups (D5, L17). High scoring has been a common theme on Almeria’s recent domestic trips, as their last five away league matches saw over 2.5 goals and both teams scoring. The post Real Madrid vs Almeria appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Real Madrid vs Almeria Stadio Olimpico forms the backdrop for a top-four Serie A six-pointer between arch-rivals Roma and AC Milan. After three straight league wins by an aggregate score of 7-0, Roma slumped to a 3-1 defeat at Atalanta earlier this week, surrendering a coveted fourth place to non-other than Milan. But with nothing but goal difference separating the sides ahead of the kick-off, extending a two-game winning home league streak would see ‘I Giallorossi’ regain control of the final Champions League qualification spot. Jose Mourinho’s men have been nothing short of impressive at the Olimpico in 2023, winning seven of their eight top-flight home outings ‘to nil’ (L1), with no side from Europe’s top-five leagues coming close to matching their unparalleled defensive solidity. They must showcase that resilience to arrest an underwhelming six-match winless H2H run against Milan in Serie A (D2, L4). In the meantime, Milan took advantage of Roma’s slip-up in Bergamo to return to the top four with a routine 2-0 home triumph over bottom-half Lecce, making it six competitive games without losing (W3, D3). Stefano Pioli’s men cannot rest on their laurels and should rather address their growing form woes on the road after managing just one win in their last six away games across all competitions (D3, L2). What’s even more concerning for ‘I Rossoneri’ is that they have netted under 1.5 goals on eight of their last nine competitive travels. But having won back-to-back Serie A visits to the Olimpico, Milan could register a third consecutive top-flight win away to Roma for the first time since 1990. The post Roma vs AC Milan appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Roma vs AC Milan Selhurst Park forms the backdrop for an all-London Premier League match-up between Crystal Palace and West Ham United. Complacency seems to be catching up with Crystal Palace as they’ve gone from winning three straight league matches at the start of Roy Hodgson’s second managerial stint to drawing a blank in their last two outings (D1, L1). However, Hodgson may have already done enough to put Palace’s relegation fears to rest, moving the ‘Eagles’ eight points clear of the red zone. The hosts won’t let that distract them from pursuing only a third Premier League double over West Ham following a 2-1 win in the reverse fixture at the London Stadium. That could be easier said than done, though, with Palace managing just one win in their last seven league meetings with the ‘Hammers’ on home turf (D2, L5), including a pair of 3-2 defeats in their two most recent H2Hs at Selhurst Park. On the other hand, West Ham’s promising run of three unbeaten Premier League games (W2, D1) ended abruptly at the hands of Liverpool in midweek league action (1-2), leaving the visitors only five points clear of 18th-placed Leicester City at the start of this round. But David Moyes’ men seem to have discovered a winning formula on the road, winning their last two top-flight away matches – as many victories as on their previous 21 Premier League travels (D4, L15). With both those triumphs coming ‘to nil,’ the ‘Irons’ are now looking to win three consecutive away league fixtures without conceding for the first time since 2007. But since they’ve capitulated at least twice in four of their last five league visits to Palace, that feat could prove hard to achieve. The post Crystal Palace vs West Ham United appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Crystal Palace vs West Ham United Vonovia Ruhrstadion plays host to a lopsided Bundesliga encounter between Bochum and Borussia Dortmund. Out-of-sorts Bochum are in a tough spot, having gone four Bundesliga matches without a win (D2, L2). They sit just two points above the relegation zone at the start of this round and are reeling from a devastating 5-1 loss at home to Wolfsburg, which marked the fourth time this season that they have lost by at least a four-goal margin. Bochum had been in good form at the Vonovia Ruhrstadion, securing three consecutive home wins at the end of the first half of the season and two more to kick off the second half. However, they have since lost four of their last five Bundesliga home outings (W1), including three multi-goal margin defeats. On that basis, ‘Die Unabsteigbaren’ may have to wait a while longer to post their first H2H home win since 2007 (D2, L3 since). Meanwhile, Borussia Dortmund capitalized on Bayern Munich’s 3-1 defeat at Mainz last weekend to move top of the Bundesliga table after a 4-0 demolition of Eintracht Frankfurt at home. But while that triumph extended Dortmund’s impressive home form to eight league wins, the visitors have been up the creek without a paddle on the road, going winless in their last five competitive away games (D2, L3), all of which saw them concede 2+ goals, including a gut-wrenching 3-3 draw at Stuttgart on their most recent league travel. Edin Terzic’s defense appears to be a weak link, yet his attack knows no limits, with Dortmund netting at least two goals in six of their seven Bundesliga away games in 2023. The post Bochum vs Borussia Dortmund appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Bochum vs Borussia Dortmund Fiorentina and Cremonese are set to trade tackles in the return leg of their Coppa Italia semi-final tie at the Stadio Artemio Franchi. Out-of-form Fiorentina hold a 2-0 aggregate lead as they approach the second leg of the Coppa Italia semi-final. However, some knowledgeable fans may recall that the team that won the first leg has failed to advance in two of their club’s last four semi-final appearances in this competition. Unless Fiorentina suffer a catastrophic collapse against Cremonese, who are facing relegation in Serie A, they should face either Inter Milan or Juventus in the title decider. However, since Spezia knocked them down from a formidable nine-match winning streak earlier in April (1-1), Vincenzo Italiano’s men have managed just one win in their last four competitive outings (D1, L2), including a pair of 3-2 defeats to Monza and Lech Poznan in Serie A and Europa League, respectively. In the meantime, a woeful 3-0 defeat at Udinese last weekend snapped Cremonese’s two-game winning league run and likely condemned them to relegation from Serie A. Adding to the skepticism about the possibility of a major upset, it’s worth noting that the visitors haven’t won by a three-goal margin since their 4-1 victory against Ascoli during their promotion campaign last season. And while four of Cremonese’s seven wins across the entirety of 2022/23 came in the Coppa Italia after they opened the scoring, Davide Ballardini’s lads have let Fiorentina draw first blood in all three meetings this season (L3). Having won just one of their last six competitive away games (D2, L3), they’re unlikely to progress into their first-ever Coppa Italia grand final from only their second semi-final appearance. The post Fiorentina vs Cremonese appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Fiorentina vs Cremonese A high-stakes midweek La Liga encounter pits European hopefuls Villarreal and relegation-threatened Espanyol against each other at the Estadio de la Ceramica. Back-to-back 2-1 defeats to Sevilla and Valladolid, in which they trailed ‘to nil’ at halftime, have probably landed a knockout blow on Villarreal’s outside chances of qualifying for next season’s Champions League, leaving them eight points below fourth-placed Real Sociedad. There’s a more pressing issue as with only one point separating them from seventh-placed Athletic Bilbao, Quique Setien’s men risk falling out of the European placings. Despite starting this round 13 places above visiting Espanyol, ‘El Submarino Amarillo’ have emerged victorious in just one of their last four top-flight H2Hs at La Ceramica (D2, L1). However, a 1-0 win in the reverse fixture in November made it two H2Hs triumphs in a row for Villarreal, as many successes as they had in their previous ten meetings with Espanyol in La Liga (W2, D2, L6). On the other hand, a goalless home draw against perennial relegation candidates Cadiz last time out curtailed Espanyol’s dreadful six-game losing run in La Liga, yet their survival hopes are still in the balance. But even though they head into proceedings second from the bottom, it’s not all lost for ‘Los Periquitos’ as they sit only two points adrift of safety. New boss Luis Garcia has gone winless in his first three games in charge (D1, L2, but if it’s any consolation, he masterminded Espanyol’s first clean sheet since mid-February. But his primary assignment is to get his side back to winning ways for the first time since a 2-1 home triumph over Mallorca two months ago. Since a 1-0 victory at dead-last Elche in February, the visitors have lost four away league games ‘to one’ on the trot. The post Villarreal vs Espanyol appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger Villarreal vs Espanyol London Stadium is the venue as West Ham United and Liverpool go head-to-head in an exciting Premier League midweek contest. Inspired by an overwhelming 4-1 home win over Gent that propelled them into the Europa Conference League semi-finals, West Ham United thumped fellow Premier League relegation rivals Bournemouth 4-0 at the weekend to move six points clear of the drop zone. Back to home soil, where they’ve lost only one of their last nine competitive matches (W5, D3), David Moyes’ men are looking to beat Liverpool in consecutive home league meetings for the first time since 2016 following a 3-2 victory in this corresponding fixture in 2021/22. Worryingly, though, the ‘Hammers’ have recorded just two wins in their last 20 Premier League encounters against sides starting the round in the top half of the table (D5, L13), beating Fulham on both occasions. On the other hand, Liverpool followed a 6-1 rout of Leeds United with a dramatic 3-2 home triumph over Nottingham Forest last weekend and could win three successive Premier League games for the first time in 2023. Despite the team’s recent upturn in form, Champions League qualification remains a pipe dream as the ‘Reds’ start this round nine points below fourth-placed Manchester United. Liverpool’s underwhelming away form that’s seen them win just once in their last five league outings on the road (D2, L2) carries much blame. Interestingly, Jurgen Klopp’s side scored more goals in their 6-1 thrashing of Leeds than on their previous eight Premier League travels combined (4). That could inspire the visitors’ bid to post only their second top-flight triumph on their seventh visit to London this season (D3, L2). The post West Ham United vs Liverpool appeared first on Bet888win. via Blogger West Ham United vs Liverpool |
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