Genoa vs Hellas Verona preview - Genoa look to maintain momentum

Genoa defender Facundo Roncaglia is confident his team will build on Monday's victory and climb up the Serie A table with a home win against Hellas Verona this weekend.

The 1-0 triumph at Lazio was Genoa's first win in 2015 and lifted the Liguria outfit to seventh place.

Diego Perotti's goal was sufficient to end Genoa's seven-match winless run and hand the Grifoni their eighth victory of the season.

Roncaglia hopes their latest result marks a new beginning for his team.

"I am delighted with this win," he said to Gazzetta dello Sport. "We really needed an important result to get our confidence back.

"We showed that fighting spirit that you need to win games.

"Now we take on Hellas Verona looking to take a victory in order to give continuity to this result.

"It's going to be a difficult game.

"We came close to beating Hellas earlier this season and we hope we can bring home three points."

Hellas held Genoa to a 2-2 draw back in September and will need to show the same determination on Sunday if they are to end the Grifoni's unbeaten home run this year.

The Verona outfit goes into the contest at the Luigi Ferraris stadium on the back of last weekend's 3-1 defeat to Torino.

The outcome followed their 2-1 loss at Palermo and was Hellas' third defeat in their last four league games.

"We are giving away too many goals," Hellas coach Andrea Mandorlini said. "I believe that a win is the only medicine that can help us turn things around."

Hellas are 14th in the standings, five points clear of the drop zone and Italian striker Luca Toni will partner Javier Saviola in their attack.

Genoa coach Gian Piero Gasperini will be without defender Luca Antonini and midfielder Tino Costa who are both out injured.