Possible nail-biting contest in Cremonese - Spezia game

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sat 06.May
Match begins: 18:45 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Giovanni Zini (20034 seats)

Cremonese are welcoming Spezia for yet another vital match following their 1-1 result versus 6th-placed Milan.

Insights:
  • Cremonese have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Serie A
  • Spezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.

Spezia play their home games on artifical turf, while this fixture is played on grass. Up to date stats for Spezia when featuring on grass are 7 wins, 7 draws and 22 defeats from 36 matches. They have created {35 goals} and conceded 75 times in these games.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Cremonese and Spezia.

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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 2 wins, 4 draws and 10 losses from their games here at Stadio Giovanni Zini.

Cremonese drew their last game, 1-1 away at Milan (placed 6th). The hometeam coach Ballardini made a successful contribution in the game against Milan, bringing on Okereke who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw. Chiricheş, defender, was given a rating of 7.63/10 in that game, top of the team. Chiricheş won 7 of 9 duels.

Before that, Cremonese drew at home versus Hellas Verona.

This is expected to be a close game, with Cremonese perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Cremonese as a small favourite), we find 5 games. Cremonese has won 4 of these, drawn 1 and lost 0.

Cremonese aren't scoring a lot here at Stadio Giovanni Zini in the league, with only {10 goals} from 16 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 26 goals have been conceded. Cremonese has at home met teams with this table position (low), four times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 4 of 4 times.

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Spezia form and stats

Spezia have only collected 10 points from their away games in the Serie A, after 2-4-10 (16 played).

Spezia are travelling again after losing away to Atalanta in their previous match (2-3). Shomurodov, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.25. Shomurodov served one assist, hit two key passes and dribled past the opponent 2 of 3 times.

A loss against Monza was the result prior to that, in a home game.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 5 similar matches played by Spezia in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Spezia, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Spezia as they have only managed to score 12 times from 16 away games in the league. As for defending, Spezia rarely keep clean sheets as they have conceded 28 goals from these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Spezia have put together a sequence of 4 consecutive games without defeat (2-2-0) when playing Cremonese.

Spezia - Cremonese 2-2 was the result in these participants' latest head-to-head match, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

SpeziaM. N'Zola
M. N'Zola
13 goals
CremoneseD. Okereke
D. Okereke
7 goals
CremoneseD. Ciofani
D. Ciofani
6 goals

Cremonese missing players

Spezia missing players

Total First Half Second Half
Cremonese Spezia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
33 16 4 Played P 4 16 33
3 2 1 Won W 1 2 5
12 4 1 Drew D 2 4 12
18 10 2 Lost L 1 10 16
29 10 2 Scored S 5 12 28
59 26 4 Conceded C 5 28 54
91% 81% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 94%
79% 62% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 75% 79%
48% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 44% 48%
33% 25% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 25% 25% 24%
15% 12% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 6% 3%
58% 44% 25% BTTS BTTS 75% 44% 48%
12% 25% 25% Clean Sheets C S 0% 6% 12%
39% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 50% 45%
 
4 3.4 3.8 Corners for (avg) C F 7.2 4.9 4.9
5.1 5.1 5.5 Corners against (avg) C A 5.5 6.1 5.5
2.3 1.8 1.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.5 2.8 2.6
3 1 1 Red cards R C 1 1 5
 
13.2 13.2 15 Shots (avg) S ( 15.5 10.8 11.4
3.6 3.8 4.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.8 3.5 3.7
24% 17% 11% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 21% 23%
 
15.2 14.5 11.8 Shots against (avg) S A 18.5 17.6 16.7
6 5.1 3.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 5.9 5.3
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Cremonese have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cremonese have the fewest scored goals in the first half (9) in Serie A
  • Cremonese have the most conceded goals in the first half (29) in Serie A
  • Spezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored away.
  • Spezia 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 Napoli 32 25 4 3 68 22 16 11 3 2 34 14 16 14 1 1 34 8 46 79
2 Lazio 33 19 7 7 52 24 17 10 3 4 27 14 16 9 4 3 25 10 28 64
3 Juventus 33 19 6 8 50 28 17 12 3 2 36 14 16 7 3 6 14 14 22 63
4 Inter 33 19 3 11 60 35 17 12 0 5 30 10 16 7 3 6 30 25 25 60
5 Atalanta 33 17 7 9 56 39 16 8 3 5 30 21 17 9 4 4 26 18 17 58
6 Milan 33 16 10 7 53 39 16 10 4 2 31 18 17 6 6 5 22 21 14 58
7 Roma 33 17 7 9 45 31 16 10 2 4 24 10 17 7 5 5 21 21 14 58
8 Fiorentina 33 12 10 11 45 39 17 7 6 4 26 21 16 5 4 7 19 18 6 46
9 Bologna 32 12 9 11 41 40 17 7 7 3 22 12 15 5 2 8 19 28 1 45
10 Monza 33 12 9 12 41 44 17 6 5 6 23 21 16 6 4 6 18 23 -3 45
11 Torino 33 12 9 12 35 38 16 5 5 6 13 16 17 7 4 6 22 22 -3 45
12 Sassuolo 33 12 7 14 40 49 16 8 3 5 21 17 17 4 4 9 19 32 -9 43
13 Udinese 32 10 12 10 42 40 15 5 8 2 27 17 17 5 4 8 15 23 2 42
14 Salernitana 33 7 14 12 41 54 17 5 6 6 26 24 16 2 8 6 15 30 -13 35
15 Empoli 32 7 11 14 26 42 15 5 4 6 13 18 17 2 7 8 13 24 -16 32
16 Lecce 33 7 10 16 28 40 16 3 7 6 16 20 17 4 3 10 12 20 -12 31
17 Hellas Verona 33 6 9 18 27 51 17 6 2 9 19 30 16 0 7 9 8 21 -24 27
18 Spezia 33 5 12 16 28 54 17 3 8 6 16 26 16 2 4 10 12 28 -26 27
19 Cremonese 33 3 12 18 29 59 16 2 4 10 10 26 17 1 8 8 19 33 -30 21
20 Sampdoria 33 3 8 22 20 59 17 1 5 11 9 25 16 2 3 11 11 34 -39 17

Table
  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 32 25 4 3 68 22 16 11 3 2 34 14 16 14 1 1 34 8 46 79
2 Lazio 33 19 7 7 52 24 17 10 3 4 27 14 16 9 4 3 25 10 28 64
3 Juventus 33 19 6 8 50 28 17 12 3 2 36 14 16 7 3 6 14 14 22 63
4 Inter 33 19 3 11 60 35 17 12 0 5 30 10 16 7 3 6 30 25 25 60
5 Atalanta 33 17 7 9 56 39 16 8 3 5 30 21 17 9 4 4 26 18 17 58
6 Milan 33 16 10 7 53 39 16 10 4 2 31 18 17 6 6 5 22 21 14 58
7 Roma 33 17 7 9 45 31 16 10 2 4 24 10 17 7 5 5 21 21 14 58
8 Fiorentina 33 12 10 11 45 39 17 7 6 4 26 21 16 5 4 7 19 18 6 46
9 Bologna 32 12 9 11 41 40 17 7 7 3 22 12 15 5 2 8 19 28 1 45
10 Monza 33 12 9 12 41 44 17 6 5 6 23 21 16 6 4 6 18 23 -3 45
11 Torino 33 12 9 12 35 38 16 5 5 6 13 16 17 7 4 6 22 22 -3 45
12 Sassuolo 33 12 7 14 40 49 16 8 3 5 21 17 17 4 4 9 19 32 -9 43
13 Udinese 32 10 12 10 42 40 15 5 8 2 27 17 17 5 4 8 15 23 2 42
14 Salernitana 33 7 14 12 41 54 17 5 6 6 26 24 16 2 8 6 15 30 -13 35
15 Empoli 32 7 11 14 26 42 15 5 4 6 13 18 17 2 7 8 13 24 -16 32
16 Lecce 33 7 10 16 28 40 16 3 7 6 16 20 17 4 3 10 12 20 -12 31
17 Hellas Verona 33 6 9 18 27 51 17 6 2 9 19 30 16 0 7 9 8 21 -24 27
18 Spezia 33 5 12 16 28 54 17 3 8 6 16 26 16 2 4 10 12 28 -26 27
19 Cremonese 33 3 12 18 29 59 16 2 4 10 10 26 17 1 8 8 19 33 -30 21
20 Sampdoria 33 3 8 22 20 59 17 1 5 11 9 25 16 2 3 11 11 34 -39 17

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