Udinese vs Catania Betting Pick | Italian Serie A

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2012-01-22 - Udinese vs Catania

A Sports Betting Pick by Cruiser

Match Preview :

Udinese will be aiming to bounce back from defeat as they welcome a Catania side who have managed just one win in their last five games.

Udinese are currently 3rd with 35 points and have an outside chance of landing the Scudetto. They will be hoping that AC Milan and Juventus fail to win to help Udinese's chances of landing the title for the first time.

Last weekend's 3-2 defeat to Genoa was only Udinese's third defeat of the campaign in what has been a good season. Udinese have one of the best home records this season with eight wins achieved at home at the Stadio Friuli and had the Division’s best defensive record before conceding three goals in 22 minutes last weekend.

Meanwhile Catania has the second worst away record in Serie A last season, but have lost just three of their nine away matches this season.

Catania coach Vincenzo Montella will be glad that his only visit to this stadium was as coach of Roma last seaosn where he won 2-1 there last April. Their match against Roma last weekend which was abandoned while the score was tied at 1-1 must now wait until February for it to be replayed the remaining 25 minutes of that match.

Montella's Catania side seems to play better if their opponents are better so Montella should not have much fears going into the match.

Last season Udinese won this fixture by 2-0.

Team News :

Udinese Team News :
Mehdi Benatia, Kwadwo Asamoah and Agyemang Badu will be out of the side due to the African Cup of Nations.

Meanwhile, Andrea Coda and Paulo Vitor Barreto are injured but Guidolin is hoping defender Maurizio Domizzi will recover in time, otherwise he will stick to the same backline that played against Genoa - Damiano Ferronetti, Joel Ekstrand and Danilo.

Catania Team News :
The likes of Davide Lanzafame and Ciro Capuano are their only absentees.

Possible lineups

Udinese : Handanovic; Ferronetti, Danilo, Ekstrand; Basta, Isla, Pinzi, Fernandes, Armero; Floro Flores; Di Natale

Catania : Campagnolo; Potenza, Spolli, Legrottaglie, Marchese; Izco, Almiron, Lodi, Barrientos, Bergessio, Gomez

Predictions :

Take Udinese to get the win here as Catania's last win here came back in April 2007.

The Statistics :

UDINESE LAST SIX HOME FORM
	DATE	RESULT		OPPOSITION
	2012-01-08	W	4-1	H v Cesena
	2011-12-21	D	0-0	H v Juventus
	2011-12-11	W	2-1	H v Chievo
	2011-11-25	W	2-0	H v Roma_AS
	2011-11-06	W	2-1	H v Siena
	2011-10-30	W	1-0	H v Palermo

CATANIA LAST SIX AWAY FORM
	DATE	RESULT		OPPOSITION
	2012-01-08	L	2-0	A v Bologna
	2011-12-21	D	3-3	A v Parma
	2011-12-11	D	1-1	A v Atalanta
	2011-11-26	W	0-1	A v Lecce
	2011-11-06	L	4-0	A v Milan_AC
	2011-10-26	D	1-1	A v Lazio

HEAD TO HEAD UDINESE v CATANIA
DATE	HOME	SCORE	AWAY
2011-03-20	Udinese	2-0	Catania
2009-09-13	Udinese	4-2	Catania
2009-03-15	Udinese	1-1	Catania
2008-04-27	Udinese	2-1	Catania
2007-04-29	Udinese	0-1	Catania

The Pick :

Udinese 1-0 Catania

BEST BETTING TIP :

Udinese to get the win here.
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