Udinese vs Verona

Thomas Kristensen (goal vs Hellas Verona today) has already equalled his net record in Serie A (one in his previous 50 games in the top-flight).

Only Weston McKennie (12 – August 1998) is younger than Sandi Lovric among midfielders who provided at least 10 assists since the Slovenian player debut in Serie A (from 2022/23): 13 – March 1998.

Suat Serdar scored in two games in a row (vs Empoli and Hellas Verona in Serie A) for the first time since December 2019-January 2020 with Schalke 04 in Bundesliga – considering the Big-5 European leagues.

Following a 1-1 draw against Bologna on the opening matchday of the last season, Udinese could draw two games in a row on MD1 of a league campaign for the first time since 2001-02 (2-2 against Torino) and 2002-03 (1-1 against Parma).

Hellas Verona have won both of their last two opening games of a league season (1-0 against Empoli in 2023-24 and 3-0 against Napoli last term): as many wins on MD1 of a Serie A campaign as they had in their previous 14 appearances in the competition (D5 L7). The Gialloblù could win three successive such meetings for the first time in their top-flight history.

Hellas Verona will play a Serie A campaign for the seventh season in a row; only once in their history have they played in the top-flight for more successive seasons (8 between 1982-83 and 1989-90).

For the first time in Serie A history (since 1929-30) Udinese and Hellas Verona will face each other on MD1 of a league campaign. In fact, on 27th September 2020, the two teams met on the opening matchday of that season, but that was the first match for the Friulani and the second one for the Veneti (1-0 win for Verona).

Following three wins in a row by an aggregate score of 7-0 (between February 2016 and May 2018), Udinese have only won two of their last 12 Serie A matches against Hellas Verona (D6 L4), netting only nine goals and conceding 13.