Betting preview: Benevento faced with a tough challenge when Roma visits

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 21.February
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Ciro Vigorito (12847 seats)

Struggling Benevento will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Roma in the upcoming league round. It’s 15th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Benevento haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Roma has the most scored goals in the first half (29) in Serie A

Roma could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Europa League game only three sleeps ago. That game was also an away game, at Sporting Braga. It will be interesting to see if they are fully ready and rested for this match, and/or if some changes in the lineup is necessary.

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Benevento form and stats

Benevento's results here at Stadio Ciro Vigorito in the Serie A have been very modest with 2 victories, 4 draws and 5 defeats. Benevento have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

Benevento shared the glory with Bologna in their last match, an away game that ended all square 1-1. In the match before that, Benevento hosted Sampdoria and drew the game 1-1.

Benevento has scored 12 league goals at home this season, in 11 matches. Benevento have conceded 21 from these games.

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Roma form and stats

As the visiting team in Serie A matches, Roma have produced an overall stat of 4-1-5 so far. The travelling fans think it's time that their travel expenses are covered with some points now, as Roma have lost on their last two travels.

It's the second away game in a row for Roma, but there's smiles all around after the 2-0 victory versus Sporting Braga in the Europa League last time out. Before that, Roma secured a home win against Udinese with the score 3-0.

A quick return to home after this game, as Roma are hosting Sporting Braga in the Europa League only four days away.

The travelling fans enjoy Roma's attacking play in away games, having scored 16 goals in 10 league matches away. Roma have conceded 22 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Benevento and Roma have met before this season: Roma - Benevento 5-2. Benevento-Roma H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Benevento one win, Roma three wins, zero draws. four of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

RomaH. Mkhitaryan
H. Mkhitaryan
9 goals
RomaJ. Veretout
J. Veretout
9 goals
RomaE. Džeko
E. Džeko
7 goals

Benevento missing players

Roma missing players

Benevento Roma
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
22 11 5 Played P 2 9 21
6 2 0 Won W 2 4 13
6 4 1 Drew D 0 1 4
10 5 4 Lost L 0 4 4
25 12 5 Scored S 4 16 47
42 21 14 Conceded C 1 19 32
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 95%
82% 91% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 89% 86%
50% 45% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 78% 76%
36% 27% 40% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 67% 62%
23% 18% 40% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 33% 29%
59% 64% 80% BTTS BTTS 50% 56% 57%
23% 18% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 11% 29%
23% 18% 20% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 19%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.6 2.5 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 2.4
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11.9 10.6 11.6 Shots (avg) S ( 14.5 12.3 14.6
3.4 3.3 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.5 4.7 5.7
33% 33% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 44% 38% 39%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Benevento haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Roma has the most scored goals in the first half (29) in Serie A
  • Roma have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Roma haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Inter 22 15 5 2 54 24 11 9 1 1 32 14 11 6 4 1 22 10 30 50
2 Milan 22 15 4 3 45 25 11 6 3 2 24 15 11 9 1 1 21 10 20 49
3 Roma 22 13 4 5 47 35 12 9 3 0 31 13 10 4 1 5 16 22 12 43
4 Juventus 21 12 6 3 41 19 10 7 2 1 20 8 11 5 4 2 21 11 22 42
5 Napoli 21 13 1 7 45 21 11 7 1 3 28 10 10 6 0 4 17 11 24 40
6 Atalanta 22 11 7 4 49 29 11 5 3 3 26 16 11 6 4 1 23 13 20 40
7 Lazio 22 12 4 6 37 30 11 6 2 3 17 14 11 6 2 3 20 16 7 40
8 Sassuolo 22 9 7 6 36 33 10 3 4 3 14 14 12 6 3 3 22 19 3 34
9 Hellas Verona 22 9 6 7 28 24 11 6 2 3 17 11 11 3 4 4 11 13 4 33
10 Sampdoria 22 9 3 10 33 33 11 5 1 5 19 17 11 4 2 5 14 16 0 30
11 Genoa 22 6 7 9 24 31 11 4 2 5 16 17 11 2 5 4 8 14 -7 25
12 Bologna 22 6 6 10 29 36 11 4 3 4 19 20 11 2 3 6 10 16 -7 24
13 Spezia 22 6 6 10 30 38 11 2 3 6 12 19 11 4 3 4 18 19 -8 24
14 Udinese 22 6 6 10 23 31 11 3 3 5 9 12 11 3 3 5 14 19 -8 24
15 Benevento 22 6 6 10 25 42 11 2 4 5 12 21 11 4 2 5 13 21 -17 24
16 Fiorentina 22 5 7 10 22 35 11 4 4 3 11 11 11 1 3 7 11 24 -13 22
17 Torino 22 2 11 9 32 41 11 0 7 4 14 19 11 2 4 5 18 22 -9 17
18 Cagliari 22 3 6 13 24 40 11 2 3 6 13 20 11 1 3 7 11 20 -16 15
19 Parma 22 2 7 13 15 43 11 1 4 6 3 18 11 1 3 7 12 25 -28 13
20 Crotone 22 3 3 16 23 52 11 3 1 7 14 22 11 0 2 9 9 30 -29 12

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Serie A is the division at the top of the Italian football league system and regarded as one of the top leagues of the world. 20 teams play each other home and away to create a final league table after 380 fixtures. The winners are titled “Campione d’Italia” (Champion of Italy), often referred to as the scudetto.