Modena duels with Genoa in Serie B face-off

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sun 19.February
Match begins: 15:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Alberto Braglia (21151 seats)

Top-ranking Genoa come to Modena after their 2-0-result against Palermo. Check out our broad preview!

Insights:
  • Modena haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Genoa have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Serie B

Modena and Genoa should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Modena form and stats

4-3-3 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie B numbers at home for Modena so far this season. Two home wins in a row for Modena bring valid hopes of a third.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Riccardo Gagno not having conceded a league goal in 254 minutes.

A good away victory last time out for Modena, who won 1-0 against Brescia (placed 17th). Gagno, who guards the goal, was given a match rating of 7.42 out of 10 in that game. Gagno topped it up with a clean sheet.

Before that game, the 2-0 home victory against Cagliari.

A decent goal production from Modena in their home games so far, with 17 goals from 10 league matches. Modena's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 12 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Genoa form and stats

7-1-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Genoa in their Serie B matches away.

Impressive finishing from Guðmundsson and Jagiełło secured the home win 2-0 against Palermo in their previous game. The attacker Guðmundsson got a match rating of 8.2 in that game. Guðmundsson scored one goal, hit the woodwork once, hit four key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 4 times and had 27 successful passes (of 31 total).

A 0-2 defeat away at Parma before that.

Low on goals? 10 of this side's last 12 league fixtures have contained two goals or less.

The visiting Genoa have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 14 goals from 12 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (11 so far).

Head 2 Head

Genoa - Modena 1-0 was the story when this pair of squads previously met, earlier this season. Previous four meetings featuring these contenders: Modena won one, Genoa triumphed in three and we saw zero draws. one game with more than 2,5 goals, three matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

GenoaM. Coda
M. Coda
8 goals
ModenaD. Diaw
D. Diaw
7 goals
ModenaN. Bonfanti
N. Bonfanti
6 goals

Modena missing players

Genoa missing players

Modena Genoa
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 11 3 Played P 6 12 24
10 5 2 Won W 3 7 12
4 3 0 Drew D 1 1 7
10 3 1 Lost L 2 4 5
35 19 3 Scored S 5 14 26
32 12 1 Conceded C 5 11 17
96% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 83% 92% 83%
75% 82% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 54%
50% 36% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 29%
29% 36% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 4%
21% 18% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 4%
58% 55% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 38%
25% 27% 67% Clean Sheets C S 33% 25% 46%
21% 18% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 33%
 
4.7 5.6 3.7 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 5.1 5.6
4.7 4 5.7 Corners against (avg) C A 2.7 3.5 2.8
2.4 2.3 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.6 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 3
 
12.9 13.9 12.3 Shots (avg) S ( 11.3 12.4 13
4.2 4.6 4.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 4.8 4.9
35% 37% 23% Goal Efficiency G E 16% 25% 22%
 
13.2 11.3 12.7 Shots against (avg) S A 11.2 10.2 9.5
5.1 4.2 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.8 4 3.2
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Genoa have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Genoa have the fewest conceded goals in the first half (7) in Serie B
  • Modena haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Frosinone 24 17 3 4 39 13 12 10 2 0 21 3 12 7 1 4 18 10 26 54
2 Genoa 24 12 7 5 26 17 12 5 6 1 12 6 12 7 1 4 14 11 9 43
3 Bari 1908 24 10 9 5 40 26 12 4 5 3 22 15 12 6 4 2 18 11 14 39
4 Reggina 24 12 3 9 34 24 12 6 2 4 21 13 12 6 1 5 13 11 10 39
5 Südtirol 24 10 9 5 27 26 13 4 7 2 15 14 11 6 2 3 12 12 1 39
6 Cagliari 23 9 8 6 28 24 13 8 3 2 19 13 10 1 5 4 9 11 4 35
7 Pisa 24 8 10 6 35 25 11 5 2 4 18 11 13 3 8 2 17 14 10 34
8 Parma 24 9 7 8 30 26 12 7 1 4 18 11 12 2 6 4 12 15 4 34
9 Palermo 24 9 7 8 27 29 12 6 3 3 14 10 12 3 4 5 13 19 -2 34
10 Ternana 24 9 7 8 25 28 12 6 4 2 12 8 12 3 3 6 13 20 -3 34
11 Modena 23 9 4 10 33 32 10 4 3 3 17 12 13 5 1 7 16 20 1 31
12 Ascoli 24 7 8 9 27 30 12 3 4 5 12 15 12 4 4 4 15 15 -3 29
13 Venezia 24 7 6 11 28 33 13 3 3 7 14 20 11 4 3 4 14 13 -5 27
14 Como 24 6 9 9 26 34 12 4 4 4 13 14 12 2 5 5 13 20 -8 27
15 Cittadella 24 6 9 9 19 29 11 3 5 3 10 12 13 3 4 6 9 17 -10 27
16 Perugia 24 7 5 12 25 30 11 4 3 4 14 14 13 3 2 8 11 16 -5 26
17 Brescia 24 6 7 11 21 36 13 4 4 5 12 14 11 2 3 6 9 22 -15 25
18 SPAL 24 5 9 10 28 32 12 3 3 6 18 18 12 2 6 4 10 14 -4 24
19 Benevento 24 5 8 11 20 27 12 2 3 7 9 16 12 3 5 4 11 11 -7 23
20 Cosenza 24 5 7 12 20 37 12 4 4 4 14 14 12 1 3 8 6 23 -17 22

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Read more about Serie B

Serie B is the second highest division in Italian football. It usually has 22 teams playing two fixtures against each other. The two top teams of the league table are automatically promoted, with a third following depending on standings and/or a playoff. Matches are usually played on Saturdays.