Crotone v Roma preview: Visitors can prove cut above

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Wed 06.January
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Ezio Scida (16108 seats)

Struggling Crotone will be hoping to pull off an upset when they welcome high-flying Roma in the upcoming league round. It’s 20th vs 3rd and the home crowd will have moderate expectations.

Insights:
  • Crotone has the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A
  • Roma has the most scored goals in the first half (19) 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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Crotone form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories in the Serie A this season. Crotone, who have the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A, have only managed 2 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses from their games here at Stadio Ezio Scida. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Stadio Ezio Scida.

Crotone are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 2-6 away versus Inter. Ahead of that match, Crotone won a home game hosting Parma (2-1).

Crotone were outplayed and humiliated in their previous game, as mentioned in the paragraph above. They will need to reinstall their confidence before this one.

Crotone are traveling soon after this match as the Serie A match at Hellas Verona awaits in four days.

Crotone are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 7 games. Crotone have conceded 13 from these games.

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Roma form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie A travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 3 defeats.

Roma won their last game, 1-0 versus Sampdoria played at home. Prior to that match, a home win 3-2 against Cagliari.

A quick return to home after this game, as Roma are hosting Inter in the Serie A only four days away.

The travelling fans enjoy Roma's attacking play in away games, having scored 13 goals in 7 league matches away. Roma have conceded 16 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Crotone-Roma H2H statistics last four meetings regardless of arena: Crotone zero wins, Roma four wins, zero draws. one of these four matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

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

Crotone missing players

Roma missing players

Crotone Roma
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
15 7 3 Played P 1 6 14
2 2 0 Won W 1 3 9
3 1 0 Drew D 0 1 3
10 4 3 Lost L 0 2 2
15 8 1 Scored S 3 13 32
35 13 8 Conceded C 1 13 20
87% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
80% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 83% 79%
60% 57% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 83% 71%
47% 29% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 100% 83% 64%
33% 14% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 50% 36%
60% 57% 33% BTTS BTTS 100% 67% 57%
13% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 17% 36%
40% 43% 67% Failed to Score F T 0% 17% 14%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.9 2.6 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1.5 2.3
3 1 1 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.3 8.6 6.3 Shots (avg) S ( 17 12 15
3.3 3.4 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 10 5.3 5.9
31% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 30% 41% 39%
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Crotone's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Crotone has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Serie A
  • Crotone has the most conceded goals (35) in Serie A
  • Crotone has the most conceded goals in the first half (19) in Serie A
  • Crotone has the the worst goal difference (-20) in Serie A
  • Crotone have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Crotone have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Crotone haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Roma has the most scored goals in the first half (19) in Serie A
  • Roma have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Roma have scored more than double the goals of Crotone.
  • 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 Milan 15 11 4 0 34 16 7 4 3 0 17 9 8 7 1 0 17 7 18 37
2 Inter 15 11 3 1 40 19 8 6 1 1 23 13 7 5 2 0 17 6 21 36
3 Roma 15 9 3 3 32 23 8 6 2 0 19 7 7 3 1 3 13 16 9 30
4 Napoli 14 9 1 4 31 13 7 4 1 2 18 8 7 5 0 2 13 5 18 28
5 Sassuolo 15 7 5 3 27 22 7 2 3 2 10 10 8 5 2 1 17 12 5 26
6 Atalanta 14 7 4 3 33 21 7 4 1 2 19 10 7 3 3 1 14 11 12 25
7 Juventus 13 6 6 1 25 13 6 3 2 1 9 6 7 3 4 0 16 7 12 24
8 Hellas Verona 15 6 5 4 19 14 8 3 2 3 10 8 7 3 3 1 9 6 5 23
9 Lazio 15 6 4 5 23 24 7 2 2 3 9 12 8 4 2 2 14 12 -1 22
10 Benevento 15 5 3 7 17 25 8 2 2 4 8 14 7 3 1 3 9 11 -8 18
11 Sampdoria 15 5 2 8 23 25 7 2 1 4 13 12 8 3 1 4 10 13 -2 17
12 Bologna 15 4 4 7 21 27 7 3 1 3 14 15 8 1 3 4 7 12 -6 16
13 Udinese 13 4 3 6 14 17 7 2 1 4 5 9 6 2 2 2 9 8 -3 15
14 Fiorentina 15 3 6 6 16 21 8 2 4 2 8 8 7 1 2 4 8 13 -5 15
15 Cagliari 15 3 5 7 22 31 7 2 2 3 11 14 8 1 3 4 11 17 -9 14
16 Parma 15 2 6 7 13 28 8 1 4 3 3 11 7 1 2 4 10 17 -15 12
17 Torino 15 2 5 8 25 32 7 0 3 4 12 17 8 2 2 4 13 15 -7 11
18 Spezia 15 2 5 8 19 30 8 0 3 5 8 17 7 2 2 3 11 13 -11 11
19 Genoa 15 2 5 8 15 28 8 1 2 5 11 16 7 1 3 3 4 12 -13 11
20 Crotone 15 2 3 10 15 35 7 2 1 4 8 13 8 0 2 6 7 22 -20 9

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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.