Venezia vs Monza Preview: Team News & Prediction
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We have a clash of the bottom two sides in Serie A this weekend with both Venezia and Monza set for relegation back down to Serie B in the final few weeks of the campaign.
Kick-off date/time: Saturday 12th April, 2025: UK – 2:00pm / US ET – 9:00am / US PT – 6:00am
How to watch on TV: UK – Not televised / US – Select matches will be televised on CBS Sports so it is worth checking their schedule
How to watch online: UK – OneFootball / US – Paramount+
Venezia Preview: Becoming difficult to beat
Venezia, much like Eusebio Di Francesco did with Frosinone last season, have perhaps left it too late to batten down the hatches with the Venetians seeming destined for the drop with just three victories in 31 Serie A matches so far this season.
However, they have managed five fairly impressive draws in their last six matches in the league against the likes of Lazio, Atalanta, in-form Como, Napoli and then a more disappointing one last weekend away at Lecce in a game in which they did have the lead.
Monza Preview: Waiting for the maths for Monza
Monza, on the other hand, have endured a terrible season with a bizarre last few months. They begin this weekend’s round of fixtures sitting 11 points adrift of safety with just 21 points to play for having done some unusual things with the managerial role.
They sacked manager Alessandro Nesta at the turn of the year and replaced him with Salvatore Bocchetti but after just a month away from the role, the former AC Milan centre-back was brought back to oversee Monza’s inevitable demotion back down into the second-tier.
Venezia Team News: A few injuries
Venezia have a couple of fresh injury doubts such as defensive duo Alessandro Marcandalli and Joel Schingtienne. As well as those two potentially being unavailable, the likes of Michael Svoboda and Domen Crnigoj are confirmed absentees.
Predicted XI (3-5-2): Radu; Haps, Idzes, Cande; Zerbin, Kike Perez, Caviglia, Busio, Carboni; Yeboah, Gytkjaer
Unavailable: Stankovic (Injured), Svoboda (Injured), Crnigoj (Injured)
Questionable: Marcandalli (Injured), Schingtienne (Injurd), Duncan (Injured), Maric (Injured)
Monza Team News: Kyriakopoulos suspended
Greek defender Georgios Kyriakopoulos is unavailable for this weekend’s trip to Venice as he is missing through suspension. As well as the absence of Kyriakopoulos, Matteo Pessina remains missing through injury, whilst they also deal with a couple of doubts, too.
Predicted XI (3-5-2): Turati; Pereira, Izzo, D’Ambrosio; Birindelli, Ciurria, Bianco, Akpa Akpro, Lekovic; Balde, Dany Mota
Unavailable: Kyriakopoulos (Suspended), Pessina (Injured)
Questionable: Carboni (Injured), Zeroli (Injured)
Venezia vs Monza Prediction
Venezia, as mentioned, have pulled off some improved performances and results of late but that has mainly been down to their tighter defensive unit with a few goalless draws. However, even with a lack of threat in the final third, they now take on a Monza side that have been one of the weakest top-flight sides in any of Europe’s major leagues so a low-scoring Venezia victory would appear the way to go for this one.
Venezia vs Monza Tip: Venezia to win & under 3.5 goals
