Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Perugia welcomes Arezzo

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Sun 31.January
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Renato Curi (28000 seats)

Only a win will satisfy the Perugia supporters in this Stadio Renato Curi clash with Arezzo, having a healthy lead on the opposition in the Serie C: Girone B table.

Insights:
  • Perugia has the most scored goals (20) at home in Serie C: Girone B
  • Arezzo is in the worst form (0-3-3)

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Perugia form and stats

Perugia, who have the most scored goals (20) at home in Serie C: Girone B, have performed here at Stadio Renato Curi this season with 6 wins from 10 Serie C: Girone B matches. Some points have been lost, as they have drawn 3 games and lost 1. Hopes of three in a row are alive for Perugia after consecutive victories at their own ground.

The home team returns to Stadio Renato Curi after being equal after 90 minutes with Fano (placed 17th) on their last time out; the Serie C: Girone B game ended 0-0. Before that, Perugia had a home game versus FeralpiSalò which ended with a victory 3-2.

The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Perugia home games with this odds we find four games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in two wins, two draws and zero defeats. Looking at the victories, one match were won by at least two goals.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Perugia as they are travelling to their away game against Cesena in the Serie C: Girone B. That match is three days after this one.

Perugia can score goals in their home matches. After 10 league matches they have found the net 20 times. Perugia's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Arezzo form and stats

There's been little loot from Arezzo's travels as they have only collected 7 points from 9 away games in the Serie C: Girone B. Arezzo, who have the the worst goal difference (-23) in Serie C: Girone B, only have 1 win to counter their 4 defeats and 4 draws. Arezzo are desperate to end a ten-game winless run, as they haven't won a game since the Imolese fixture.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Serie C: Girone B home defeat versus FeralpiSalò with 2-3 on the scoreboard. The game before that, was lost at home, a 0-2 defeat against Cesena.

We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Arezzo played away with similar odds. This revealed one game. The visitors overcame the odds to win zero times, zero were draws and the home team won as expected one time.

A new game in only three days for Arezzo, the Serie C: Girone B home match versus Gubbio. Busy days.

Arezzo are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 10 away goals from 9 games (in the league). Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Arezzo have conceded 15 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Arezzo - Perugia 0-1 entered in the official records. As for the last two games between these two teams, there's one Perugia victory, one draw and zero Arezzo wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

ArezzoA. Cutolo
A. Cutolo
11 goals
PerugiaF. Melchiorri
F. Melchiorri
4 goals

Perugia missing players

Arezzo missing players

Perugia Arezzo
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
20 10 5 Played P 0 9 20
10 6 4 Won W 0 1 1
7 3 1 Drew D 0 4 7
3 1 0 Lost L 0 4 12
31 20 11 Scored S 0 10 18
20 10 4 Conceded C 0 15 41
85% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 89% 95%
75% 90% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 89% 85%
50% 70% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 50%
30% 40% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 40%
10% 10% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 25%
55% 60% 60% BTTS BTTS 0% 67% 55%
45% 40% 40% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 10%
15% 10% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 22% 40%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.9 1.9 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.1 2
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 4
 
8.8 9.9 8.8 Shots (avg) S ( 0 10.7 11.1
3.9 4.5 3.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 3.5
40% 44% 58% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 28% 26%
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Arezzo has the most conceded goals in the first half (24) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Arezzo has the the worst goal difference (-23) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Arezzo have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Arezzo is in the worst form (0-3-3)
  • Perugia has the most scored goals (20) at home in Serie C: Girone B
  • Perugia has the the best goal difference (+10) at home in Serie C: Girone B
  • Perugia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Sudtirol 20 11 7 2 32 13 10 6 3 1 15 6 10 5 4 1 17 7 19 40
2 Modena 20 12 3 5 23 9 10 6 1 3 14 6 10 6 2 2 9 3 14 39
3 Calcio Padova 19 11 4 4 34 16 9 5 2 2 16 7 10 6 2 2 18 9 18 37
4 Perugia 20 10 7 3 31 20 10 6 3 1 20 10 10 4 4 2 11 10 11 37
5 Cesena 20 10 5 5 31 21 10 3 3 4 13 13 10 7 2 1 18 8 10 35
6 Sambenedettese 20 9 6 5 28 20 11 5 3 3 17 11 9 4 3 2 11 9 8 33
7 Mantova 20 9 5 6 30 23 11 5 3 3 17 12 9 4 2 3 13 11 7 32
8 FeralpiSalò 20 9 5 6 31 28 10 6 1 3 16 11 10 3 4 3 15 17 3 32
9 Matelica Calcio 20 9 4 7 31 35 10 5 3 2 19 17 10 4 1 5 12 18 -4 31
10 Virtus Verona 20 6 11 3 23 17 9 2 7 0 9 5 11 4 4 3 14 12 6 29
11 Triestina 20 8 5 7 22 21 9 5 1 3 10 7 11 3 4 4 12 14 1 29
12 Carpi 19 6 6 7 25 26 10 4 5 1 17 9 9 2 1 6 8 17 -1 24
13 Gubbio 20 5 8 7 20 25 9 2 4 3 7 11 11 3 4 4 13 14 -5 23
14 Fermana 20 5 7 8 15 21 10 4 3 3 9 7 10 1 4 5 6 14 -6 22
15 Legnago Salus 20 4 9 7 16 18 10 4 2 4 10 9 10 0 7 3 6 9 -2 21
16 Vis Pesaro 20 5 3 12 21 35 9 4 2 3 12 14 11 1 1 9 9 21 -14 18
17 Fano 20 2 10 8 13 23 11 1 5 5 9 14 9 1 5 3 4 9 -10 16
18 Imolese 20 4 4 12 17 28 11 2 3 6 9 15 9 2 1 6 8 13 -11 16
19 Ravenna 20 4 2 14 21 42 9 4 2 3 12 13 11 0 0 11 9 29 -21 14
20 Arezzo 20 1 7 12 18 41 11 0 3 8 8 26 9 1 4 4 10 15 -23 10

Read more about Serie C: Girone B

Serie C is the third highest level in the Italian football league. It is divided into three geographical divisions; North East, North West and South. These are often referred to as Girone (or group) A, B, C. Each group holds 20 teams who play 38 fixtures each to create a final league table.