FC Torino vs. Cremonese: Preview and betting tips

Monday’s football programme will feature a Serie A match between FC Torino and Cremonese. While the home team dreams of European Cup, the visitors are fighting for their bare survival. What to expect from the match and what to bet on?

Torino are still in the European Cup race in the second half of the season. With only one loss in the last four rounds, they are eighth, two points behind seventh-placed Bologna, who are guaranteed European Cups with one game to spare.

For Cremonese, Serie A is even tougher than the newcomer imagined after last year’s promotion from the second league. Eight points and one point from the last five rounds means last place, from which they are 11 points behind for salvation.

Turin’s key figures

The hosts rely on Russian midfielder Aleksey Miranchuk, author of four goals and three assists. Fellow midfielder Nikola Vlasic, the Croatian international and world vice-champion, has scored four times and assisted four times.

Key figures of Salernitana

In the absence of two strikers, the visitors will be hoping for midfielder Charles Pickel, who has scored twice and assisted once so far. Shooting guard Leonardo Sernicola is also scoring, scoring three goals and assisting one.

Torino are benefiting from a well-functioning defensive line this season, which is now missing the injured David Zima. With 23 goals conceded, it has the fifth best defending record in the league, conceding more than once in only two of the past 12 games.

Plus, Cremonese is definitely not an offensive machine. Rather, it’s more of a gravy train that has scored just 15 goals so far, the second-lowest number in the league. Only once more than one shot in the past five rounds.

Considering the absence of Cremonese’s two top scorers due to injury, the team’s related poor productivity and the solid defense of Torino, I think the home team can win.