Comments and predictions for Venezia vs AS Roma: Kill the home team
The match between Venezia vs AS Roma in Serie A takes place at 6:30 p.m. on February 9. Nghe An Newspaper analyzes performance, makes football comments and predicts the score.
Latest information on Venezia vs AS Roma squad
Having to rotate his squad between midweek cup ties and next week's Europa League play-off against Porto, manager Claudio Ranieri is likely to make a few changes on Sunday.
Artem Dovbyk could return to the starting line-up, while Bryan Cristante and captain Lorenzo Pellegrini could also be relied upon, especially with central midfielder Manu Kone serving a suspension.
Defender Gianluca Mancini returns after being suspended for the Giallorossi's Coppa Italia quarter-final defeat, while new signings Devyne Rensch, Lucas Gourna-Douath and Anass Salah-Eddine are also included.
Venezia have had a busy winter transfer window, having lost top scorer Joel Pohjanpalo to ambitious Serie B side Palermo. New signing Daniel Fila will compete with John Yeboah and Christian Gytkjaer to replace the Finnish striker.
Lagunari's absentee list still includes the names Michael Svoboda, Marin Sverko, Richie Sagrado, Alfred Duncan and Domen Crnigoj. Now this list has an important addition.
Number one goalkeeper Filip Stankovic (on loan from Inter and has impressed since taking over as number one) will be sidelined until next month, so Ionut Radu will replace him in goal.
Latest expected lineup Venezia vs AS Roma
Venice:
Radu; Haps, Idzes, Cande; Zerbin, Perez, Nicolussi Caviglia, Busio, Ellertsson; Oristanio, Fila
Roma:
Svilar; Mancini, Hummels, Ndicka; Saelemaekers, Cristante, Paredes, Angelino; Dybala, Pellegrini; Dovbyk
Latest football commentary Venezia vs AS Roma
With the Europa League their last chance of silverware this season, Roma's Coppa Italia campaign ended on Wednesday after a 3-1 defeat to AC Milan at the San Siro.
Trailing by two goals at half-time - both scored by Roma's Tammy Abraham - the capital club later pulled one back through Artem Dovbyk, but were still knocked out in the quarter-finals.
Interim coach Claudio Ranieri, who will lead his boyhood club until the end of the season, has made a successful return to the coaching bench, taking the crisis-hit team to ninth place in Serie A and qualifying for the Europa League.
Last week, Ranieri’s men held leaders Napoli to a 1-1 draw in the Derby del Sole. Leonardo Spinazzola (a former Roma player) opened the scoring, before Angelino (who replaced him at left-back) equalised.
The Giallorossi are unbeaten in seven Serie A games, having lost seven of their previous nine. Since Ranieri's return, only Inter Milan have scored more goals than Roma.
Despite enjoying their best unbeaten run since 2022 (under Jose Mourinho), they have only won one away game all season.
That rare victory came against Udinese at the end of January. Before that, Roma had gone 13 consecutive away games without a win.
After losing 1-2 in the first leg in September (conceding two goals in the second half after taking the lead at the Stadio Olimpico), Venezia are in dire need of a surprise win this weekend.
Unbeaten in 2025, Lagunari are five points adrift of safety more than halfway through their campaign to return to Italy's top flight.
Things could have been different if Venezia hadn't dropped more points from a leading position than any club in Europe's top five leagues (27).
This figure was recorded after the match in which the Arancioneroverdi successfully came back from 2 goals down at Udinese (inspired by a classy free-kick from free-kick specialist Hans Nicolussi Caviglia - who has scored 3 goals from outside the box this season).
However, they still suffered a 2-3 defeat against Udinese, extending their poor away record. Venezia have yet to win any away games.
However, coach Eusebio Di Francesco (a former player and coach of Roma) has seen his side lose just one of their last five games at the Stadio Penzo. Their next two visitors are capital side Roma and Lazio.
Latest Venezia vs AS Roma score prediction
Based on the above football comments, we and the world's leading football sites have given the results of the match.Venezia vs AS Romaas follows:
- Sportsmole:Venezia 1-2 AS Roma
- WhoScore:Venezia 0-2 AS Roma
- Our newspaper predicts:Venezia 1-2 AS Roma
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