Serie A match preview: Cremonese believed to be the weaker party when Milan pays a visit

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Tue 08.November
Match begins: 19:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Giovanni Zini (20034 seats)

Home advantage is relaxed and friendly for Cremonese, but Milan are fully intent and qualified to get all three points. How will it end?

Insights:
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals in the first half (14) in Serie A
  • Milan have the most scored goals in the second half (17) in Serie A

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.

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Cremonese form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Serie A this season. Cremonese have only managed 0 wins, 2 draws and 4 losses from their games here at Stadio Giovanni Zini. All in all it has been a very rough period for Cremonese who hasn’t won a league-game in their last 13 attempts. days ago.

Cremonese travelled for their previous game, a trip to Salernitana that ended 2-2. Ciofani was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Salernitana after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? The versatile forward Tsadjout outdid all the other players in that match and managed a match rating of 7.42 out of 10. Tsadjout served one assist, hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Udinese.

Cremonese are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Empoli awaits in three days.

The lack of attacking qualities in Cremonese means that they have only scored {2 goals} in 6 league home games, less than half a goal per match. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 11 goals have been conceded. When Cremonese hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Hellas Verona, Sampdoria, Fiorentina, Lecce, Spezia and Monza), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Milan form and stats

3-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Milan in their Serie A matches away.

Milan are travelling after their nice 2-1 home win in the game against Spezia (placed 17th). Giroud came off the bench to score the winning goal in the match against Spezia last time out, making the manager Pioli feel like a tactical genius. Hernández, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.83. Hernández scored one goal and won 5 of 9 duels.

Before that one, the win at home hosting Salzburg in the Champions League (4-0).

Take note that 8 of this team's 10 most recent league matches have ended with at least three goals.

The travelling fans enjoy Milan's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

MilanO. Giroud
O. Giroud
5 goals
MilanR. Conceição Leão
R. Conceição Leão
5 goals
MilanB. Diaz
B. Diaz
4 goals

Cremonese missing players

Milan missing players

Cremonese Milan
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 2 6 13
0 0 0 Won W 2 3 9
6 2 0 Drew D 0 2 2
7 4 2 Lost L 0 1 2
11 2 1 Scored S 4 9 27
24 11 8 Conceded C 2 6 14
85% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 83% 92%
69% 50% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 92%
54% 50% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 67% 69%
46% 33% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 17% 31%
15% 17% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 23%
62% 33% 50% BTTS BTTS 100% 83% 77%
15% 33% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 23%
38% 67% 50% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 8%
 
5.2 5 6.5 Corners for (avg) C F 3.5 4.8 4.9
4 3 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 4.5 3.8
1.9 1.3 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 2.6
1 0 0 Red cards R C 1 1 2
 
15.1 15.5 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 16.5 15.5 17.4
3.8 2.8 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 4.3 5.3
22% 12% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 40% 35% 39%
 
16 14.7 17 Shots against (avg) S A 14 11.5 11.5
6 5.7 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.2 3.4
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Cremonese have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals in the first half (14) in Serie A
  • Cremonese have the the worst goal difference (-9) at home in Serie A
  • Cremonese have yet to win a game.
  • Milan have scored more than double the goals of Cremonese.
  • Milan have the most scored goals in the second half (17) in Serie A

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Napoli 13 11 2 0 32 10 6 5 1 0 16 4 7 6 1 0 16 6 22 35
2 Milan 13 9 2 2 27 14 7 6 0 1 18 8 6 3 2 1 9 6 13 29
3 Atalanta 13 8 3 2 19 10 7 3 2 2 9 8 6 5 1 0 10 2 9 27
4 Roma 12 8 1 3 16 11 5 3 0 2 6 3 7 5 1 1 10 8 5 25
5 Lazio 12 7 3 2 24 8 7 4 1 2 13 7 5 3 2 0 11 1 16 24
6 Inter 12 8 0 4 25 17 6 5 0 1 13 3 6 3 0 3 12 14 8 24
7 Udinese 13 6 5 2 21 13 7 3 3 1 12 6 6 3 2 1 9 7 8 23
8 Juventus 12 6 4 2 18 7 6 4 2 0 15 3 6 2 2 2 3 4 11 22
9 Salernitana 13 4 5 4 18 19 7 3 2 2 12 8 6 1 3 2 6 11 -1 17
10 Torino 12 5 2 5 12 14 6 2 2 2 4 4 6 3 0 3 8 10 -2 17
11 Sassuolo 13 4 3 6 14 18 6 3 1 2 10 6 7 1 2 4 4 12 -4 15
12 Empoli 13 3 5 5 10 17 7 2 2 3 5 8 6 1 3 2 5 9 -7 14
13 Bologna 12 3 4 5 14 18 6 2 3 1 7 5 6 1 1 4 7 13 -4 13
14 Fiorentina 12 3 4 5 13 17 6 2 2 2 9 11 6 1 2 3 4 6 -4 13
15 Monza 12 3 1 8 11 21 6 2 0 4 6 8 6 1 1 4 5 13 -10 10
16 Lecce 13 1 6 6 10 16 6 0 4 2 5 7 7 1 2 4 5 9 -6 9
17 Spezia 13 2 3 8 11 24 6 2 3 1 10 9 7 0 0 7 1 15 -13 9
18 Cremonese 13 0 6 7 11 24 6 0 2 4 2 11 7 0 4 3 9 13 -13 6
19 Sampdoria 12 1 3 8 6 21 6 0 2 4 2 9 6 1 1 4 4 12 -15 6
20 Hellas Verona 12 1 2 9 11 24 6 1 0 5 7 14 6 0 2 4 4 10 -13 5

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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.