National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Cremonese or Cittadella that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Cremonese form and stats
This is not the first game this season in the Coppa Italia for Cremonese, as the manager Stroppa led his troops to eliminate Crotone, and reach the 2nd Round. Cremonese participated in Coppa Italia the last season, where they reached the semi-finals and lost against Fiorentina.Cremonese's results here at Stadio Giovanni Zini in the Serie B have been very modest with 0 victories, 3 draws and 3 defeats.
A strong away win for Cremonese against Cittadella the last match, as Ravanelli and Vázquez were on target. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of Stroppa when Vázquez scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 59th minute. Midfielder Zanimacchia was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.65 (out of ten) in that game. Zanimacchia hit one key pass, dribled past the opponent 7 of 12 times and had 34 successful passes (of 37 total).
Preceding that match was a Serie B defeat to Sudtirol (0-1).The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cremonese handle that role? We have found 13 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 5 draws and 4 defeats.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Cremonese here at Stadio Giovanni Zini in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (4 from 6 games). Cremonese's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 7 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cittadella form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Empoli in order to reach 2nd round of Coppa Italia.Playing away, Cittadella have won 1 game, drawn 2 and suffered 2 defeats in the Serie B this season.
Cittadella might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Cremonese proved too strong as Cittadella slumped to a 1-2 defeat in front of their own fans at Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato. Cittadella were so close to getting something from the game against Cremonese, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal three minutes into overtime. Midfield player Vita was the top player of the team with a match rating of 7.83/10. Vita scored one goal, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
A 1-2 defeat away at Pisa before that.Cittadella are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 6 draws and 9 defeats. From a total of 16 matches.
A new game in only four days for Cittadella, the Serie B home match versus Brescia. Busy days.
As opposed to that, Cittadella have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
Cremonese have avoided a loss in the last 4 fixtures (3-1-0) versus Cittadella.Top Goalscorers
  M. Coda 7 goals |  M. Collocolo 2 goals |   A. Magrassi 2 goals |
Cremonese missing players
Cittadella missing players
| Cremonese | Cittadella | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 11 | 25 | ||
| 9 | 5 | Won | W | 3 | 7 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Drew | D | 6 | 9 | ||
| 8 | 5 | Lost | L | 2 | 9 | ||
| 31 | 18 | Scored | S | 14 | 26 | ||
| 32 | 18 | Conceded | C | 12 | 31 | ||
| 92% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 91% | 88% | ||
| 76% | 73% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 91% | 76% | ||
| 48% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 36% | 44% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 9% | 16% | ||
| 8% | 7% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 9% | 4% | ||
| 60% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 82% | 56% | ||
| 24% | 27% | Clean Sheets | C S | 9% | 20% | ||
| 24% | 20% | Failed to Score | F T | 18% | 36% | ||
| 5.6 | 5.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.6 | 5.4 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 3.5 | 4 | ||
| 1.6 | 1.4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.7 | 2.8 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | ||
| 15.4 | 16.6 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 13.8 | 13.5 | ||
| 4.8 | 5.5 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 4.4 | ||
| 26% | 22% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 32% | 23% | ||
| 11.8 | 10.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10 | 11.4 | ||
| 4.6 | 4.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.4 | 4 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Parma | 11 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 23 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 6 | 14 | 26 |
| 2 | Venezia | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 21 |
| 3 | Catanzaro | 11 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 21 |
| 4 | Palermo | 10 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 17 | 8 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 9 | 20 |
| 5 | Modena | 11 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 19 |
| 6 | Como | 10 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 12 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 17 |
| 7 | Sudtirol | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 16 |
| 8 | Cremonese | 11 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 16 |
| 9 | Cosenza | 11 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 |
| 10 | Bari 1908 | 11 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 14 |
| 11 | Reggiana | 11 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 | 13 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 7 | -1 | 14 |
| 12 | Brescia | 9 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 13 |
| 13 | Cittadella | 11 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 13 |
| 14 | Ascoli | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | -2 | 12 |
| 15 | Pisa | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 10 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | -2 | 12 |
| 16 | Spezia | 10 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 10 | -5 | 8 |
| 17 | Sampdoria | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 | 16 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 8 | -5 | 7 |
| 18 | Lecco | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -8 | 7 |
| 19 | Ternana | 11 | 1 | 3 | 7 | 10 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | -5 | 6 |
| 20 | FeralpiSalo | 11 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 5 | 22 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 13 | -17 | 5 |
