Chievo - Bologna Italy - Serie A Prediction

Chievo - Bologna
24.05 15:00
This is one of the most important matches in Serie A this weekend as the outcome of the match could decide the third team to go down, besides Reggina and Lecce. Veronesi brought one point from Genoa and they are now four points clear of Bologna, which means that they will mathematically ensure survival with one point from this match. To be honest, they deserved a mid table finish considering how well they played in the second part of the season. Bologna are one point adrift of Torino, the team they shared spoils with two weeks ago. Emiliani will host indifferent Catania in the last round and they will win that game. The only problem is that Torino expect to beat Genoa this weekend and they play Roma, who will probably have nothing to play for by then, away next weekend.
Chievo are better on the travels
Bentegodi are always half empty, rarely do we see more than 15,000 people. Chievo have got much smaller fan base than Verona and not even the uptrend in club’s fortunes could change that. The Flying Donkeys won more points away from home, having won no less than five away games. However, they will be happy with the fact that they don’t have to attack Bologna as one point would be more than enough. That will probably change their approach in this match. Di Carlo managed to improve the attack as Chievo scored just nine goals in the first part of the season, while they are scoring much more now. Bologna never won an away game against Chievo and that is why the hosts are confident that they will not lose. Di Carlo are still without several long-term casualties but the key players are all ready. He will again field 4-3-1-2 formation, which worked as a charm in most of the games this season.
Bologna sent Lecce to Serie B
Emiliani scored the winner in the dying moments of the match and thus kept their survival hopes alive. Papdopulo, who replaced Mihajlovic, believes that his team will be able to stay in Serie A but Torino will have to slip up in order for that to happen. The Bulls will play Roma away next weekend and everything is possible in the final round. Besides, the odd results in the final round are Serie A specialty. Felsinei made their life difficult by losing to Reggina, which was probably the key game of the season. If they had won that match, they would have been much closer to survival but the things are very tricky now. To be honest, considering the way they played this season, Bologna deserved to go down. Volpi is suspended and several other players are injured but everyone at Bologna are dispensable, apart from Di Vaio.
Betting verdict
The bookies are suggesting that the teams will share spoils in Verona, just look at the odds on draw. We are not sure that will happen as even though Chievo would be satisfied with one point, Bologna certainly would not. We should also point out that Chievo never took part in the aforementioned odd results and that is why they were relegated to Serie B two seasons ago. We will take very good odds on hosts, who are by far the better team here. The odds are worth a smaller stake.
Tip: Chievo, Odds 3.25;