Hellas Verona vs. Parma, a face-off for safety

It will be a face-off for safety between Hellas Verona and Parma who will meet, four points apart, at 18:30 CET at the Bentegodi. The home side won three key points two weeks ago against Udinese, putting an end to a two-game losing streak, and now they will want to get themselves further away from the relegation zone. Parma have the same objective, and they must win, having drawn their last two against Torino and Monza. They still find themselves in a risky position and they need all three points to get themselves away from the drop.

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Among the teams faced at least 15 times in Serie A, Parma is the one against which Hellas Verona have the highest win percentage: 53%, with 10 wins in 19 matches played so far (D3 L6). Hellas Verona have won their last five home matches against Parma in Serie A and could record six consecutive home wins against a single opponent in the competition for the first time in their history. This will be the fifth time that Hellas Verona face Parma in Serie A after an international break: after three consecutive victories for the Venetians, the Emilia-Romagna side won the most recent of these four encounters, on March 9, 2014.

DID YOU KNOW?

After their 1-0 win against Udinese last time out, Hellas Verona could win consecutive Serie A matches for the first time in over a year – the last time was between March 3 and March 10, 2024 (two 1-0 wins against Sassuolo and Lecce). Since Cristian Chivu’s debut in charge of Parma on February 22 against Bologna, the Ducali have lost only one Serie A match (W1 D2), earning five points (1.25 points per game). This is the same number of points they have collected in their previous 11 matches under Fabio Pecchia (W1 D2 L8 – 0.45 points per game on average). Parma have earned at least 25 points in the first 29 matches of the season for the 25th time in their history considering three points for a win era: in the previous 24 instances, only once did the team fail to avoid relegation by the end of the season (in 2007/08, when they finished 19th).

PLAYERS

In addition to scoring Hellas Verona’s first direct free-kick goal in Serie A in the last four seasons (vs Udinese), Ondrej Duda has created the most chances from set-pieces among his teammates in the current season (11). Overall, he has registered the highest expected assists (2.1 xA), most passes completed in the opponent's box (102), and most passes completed in the final third (215) among Hellas Verona’s players in this Serie A campaign. After scoring against Monza last time out, Ange-Yoan Bonny could find the net in consecutive Serie A games for the second time in his career, after doing so between September 2024 against Napoli and Udinese. The French player (21 years and 157 days at the time of the match) has already scored six goals in the current campaign and could become the fourth youngest foreign player to surpass this tally in a single Serie A season with Parma, after Dejan Kulusevski (20 years and 67 days), Adriano (20 years and 294 days), and Ishak Belfodil (21 years and 8 days).

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: Hernani (Parma) Cautioned: Suslov, Coppola (Hellas Verona); Keita, Haj Mohamed, Balogh, Almqvist (Parma)

REFEREE

SACCHI (BERCIGLI – TRINCHIERI), IV: COLLU, VAR: MAZZOLENI, AVAR: VOLPI

UPCOMING MATCHES IN SERIE A

Torino-Hellas Verona (Sunday 6 April, 15.00 CET) Parma-Inter (Saturday 5 April, 18.00 CET) (Photo Getty Images)