Venezia will host Fiorentina at Stadio Pierluigi Penzo in Serie A today, with kickoff set for 2:45 PM. It is a meeting that arrives with little margin for either side, and it comes with Fiorentina under Paolo Vanoli, who has returned to the Viola Park to take charge for the second time after Fabio Grosso was dismissed.
That is why Venezia Vs Fiorentina is drawing attention now. Venezia sit 18th and are trying to move off the bottom end of the table, while Fiorentina are still waiting for their first Serie A win of the season. The timing matters because the next fixture is not just another date on the schedule; it is a chance to interrupt two bad starts before they harden into something harder to shake.
The numbers behind the game are as blunt as the table. Venezia have lost four of their last five competitive matches, with their only victory in that spell coming in a 2-1 win over Fiorentina in the teams' most recent Serie A meeting. Since then, Venezia have fallen 3-2 to Frosinone in their latest match, a result that kept the pressure on a side that has won one of its last five, drawn none and lost four.
Fiorentina's form is not much cleaner. They come in having won one of their last five matches, drawn one and lost three, and their latest defeat was a 1-2 loss to Torino. Earlier in the 2026/27 season, they had already been beaten 0-3 by Frosinone and 4-0 by Roma, a run that helps explain why Grosso was removed after three league defeats and why the club moved quickly to bring Vanoli back.
There is a sharper edge to that return because Vanoli is not walking into a blank slate. The move back to the Viola Park came within hours of Grosso's dismissal, a sign that Fiorentina wanted stability immediately rather than a long search. The problem is that urgency does not erase the larger picture: Fiorentina have not won a Serie A match this season, and Venezia are trying to avoid being dragged deeper by their own poor run.
That is what makes the 2:45 PM kickoff at Stadio Pierluigi Penzo matter beyond the fixture list. Venezia have shown they can beat Fiorentina, but they have not shown they can sustain much beyond isolated results. Fiorentina have changed managers, but the results still need to follow. When the whistle goes, both teams will be playing not just for points, but for evidence that the season can still be turned.
