Ileana Sanchez
Dailysports's expert
Sassuolo
Torino
On April 3, Mapei Stadium – Città del Tricolore (Reggio Emilia) will host the match of the 28th round of the Serie A, in which Sassuolo will compete with Torino. The battle will start at 20:45 CET.
Sassuolo
The team, perhaps more than any other one, at least in Italy, regrets having to pause this season. After all, it gained good momentum just at the junction of winter and spring. There was only one defeat after mid-January made by the undisputed leader of the Calcio, Napoli. And all four previous battles were won. Despite the fact that the opponents were not only comfortable – among weak teams like Lecce, Cremonese and Spezia one can find Roma, which was beaten in the scandalous away struggle with a 4-3 score! On the other hand, Alessio Dionisi’s wards have nothing to fight for. They have come off the relegation zone a long time ago, and they stopped thinking about the European competitions a couple of years ago, even when being under the rule of De Zerbi. Will the mentor be able to set up the wards to continue to fight and win at the very finish of the season? Or, may be, he does not see any sense in it?
Torino
The club seems to be more ambitious and motivated than “the Neroverdi”. But in fact, “the Granata” is only one point ahead of Sassuolo – 37 against 36 points! Generally speaking, Ivan Jurić demonstrates good football and decent results with his wards. The previous season, which was the first for him in Turin, the Croatian specialist raised his new wards to the number of strong middle peasants. Nowadays, having updated line-up, where Vlašić and Miranchuk play the first roles, they manage, at least, to hold their positions. “The Bulls” even won the matches against Bologna (1-0 at home arena) and Lecce (2-0 in the away battle) in a row in March. But in the end, just before the pause, the team was hit by an “unstoppable machine” from Naples – there was no response to four goals scored by Osimhen and company.
The statistics of head-to-head matches
Generally speaking, Torino is stable in its successes against Sassuolo. Still, “the Neroverdi” managed to win the away struggle in September due to a late goal scored by Alvarez.
Predictions
Bookmakers consider the hosts of the arena to be the favourite of the following battle. Thus, we recommend betting on “both teams to score: yes” (odd: 1.82).
