National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Crotone or Monopoli 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.
Crotone form and stats
Action has already taken place for Crotone in Coppa Italia Serie C as they have defeated Messina and Monopoli to reach the 2nd Round.Crotone's previous match was a Coppa Italia Serie C game also played at home, ending 3-2 vs Monopoli. The home team hope to to build on that result.
Previous to that game, a Serie C: Girone C home match hosting Picerno in a game that was won 1-0.The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Crotone have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found 4 games) they have won 2 times, drawn 1 and lost 1.
With the first game of the season soon underway, it's time to look at the results from the Crotone friendly games in pre-season: Crotone played one friendly, won 1, drew 0 and lost 0. If you are really into statistics you might appreciate knowing that Crotone scored {4 goals} and conceded 1 in these one game.
Monopoli form and stats
The traveling awayteam has defeated Taranto and Crotone in order to reach 2nd round of Coppa Italia Serie C. Last season their Coppa Italia Serie C adventure ended in the 2nd round.Two away games in a row for Monopoli, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 2-3 against Crotone in the Coppa Italia Serie C.
A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Messina.Monopoli are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 2 wins, 2 draws and 8 defeats. From a total of 12 matches.
Head 2 Head
The teams involved faced each other previously this campaign: Crotone - Monopoli 2-2. Crotone-Monopoli H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Crotone two wins, Monopoli zero wins, zero draws. one of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). Golemic likes to play against Monopoli and have scored 2 goals in these games.
Top Goalscorers
  G. Gomez 6 goals | C. Chiricò 5 goals |  E. Starita 3 goals |
Crotone missing players
Monopoli missing players
| Crotone | Monopoli | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 15 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 13 | 10 | Won | W | 4 | 11 | ||
| 7 | 3 | Drew | D | 3 | 4 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Lost | L | 5 | 10 | ||
| 42 | 26 | Scored | S | 12 | 31 | ||
| 25 | 10 | Conceded | C | 14 | 28 | ||
| 96% | 93% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 92% | ||
| 68% | 67% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 40% | 40% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 27% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 17% | 16% | ||
| 20% | 13% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 8% | ||
| 52% | 40% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 48% | ||
| 36% | 53% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 24% | ||
| 16% | 13% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 36% | ||
| 4.6 | 5.4 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.3 | 4.9 | ||
| 4.8 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.4 | 4 | ||
| 2.8 | 2.6 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.2 | ||
| 3 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 13.3 | 14.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 9.3 | 8.8 | ||
| 4.6 | 5.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.6 | 3.5 | ||
| 34% | 30% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 28% | 35% | ||
| 11 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.8 | 8.5 | ||
| 3.7 | 3.1 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 4.2 | 3.1 | ||
