Soccer fixture news: Home fans with big expectations before Lazio - Spezia

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 02.October
Match begins: 10:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Olimpico (72698 seats)

Lazio have played well this season, proven by 4th place in the table. Spezia can look both up and down the table from their 12th place.

Insights:
  • Lazio have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Spezia have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Serie A

This ground has grass, which is not Spezia's regular surface at their own pitch. When appearing on grass Spezia have performed like this: Played 43 matches producing 10 wins, 8 draws and 25 defeats with the goal stats 51-92 (scored/conceded).

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Lazio form and stats

The story so far in the Serie A for Lazio at their home stadium (Stadio Olimpico) is 3 wins, 0 draws and 1 defeat.

Nothing to worry about in defence for Lazio, as their goalkeeper Ivan Provedel has completely shut out the opponents for 209 minutes in the Serie A.

A strong away win for Lazio against Cremonese the last match, as Pedro, Milinković-Savić and Immobile (2) were on target. As mentioned above, Lazio "killed" Cremonese in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The attacking player Immobile was announced as "man of the match" for Lazio with a rating of 9.22/10. Immobile scored two goals, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 24 successful passes (of 29 total).

Before that game, a loss in the away fixture against Midtjylland in the Europa League. The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Lazio home games with this odds we find 7 games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 7 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 4 matches were won by at least two goals.

There will be little rest for Lazio after this match as they are travelling to Sturm Graz for a Europa League game in only four days.

Lazio has scored 8 goals so far and conceded 4 goals from 4 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Spezia form and stats

No Serie A points yet away for Spezia, from their first 3 matches. Three consecutive losses in away matches means Spezia are growing more and more desperate for a good performance on the road.

The club members enjoyed Spezia's previous fixture versus Sampdoria (placed 20th), a 2-1 win played at home. Those three points felt nice as this side had gone five league matches without winning. Goalkeeper Drągowski was absolutely vital in the Spezia victory against Sampdoria, making seven saves.

A 0-1 defeat away at Napoli before that.

You'll want to know how Spezia managed when outsiders such as today. Our database found 10 similar matches resulting in 2 away wins, 0 draws and 8 home wins.

0 goals so far away for Spezia, while their defence has allowed the opposition to score 6. All from 3 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

Lazio have won all of the 4 latest battles against this side. Can they do it again?

The matches between these sides sometimes lean towards being a bit wild, having seen 3 red cards from the last four encounters. One of the stars has been Immobile with 5 goals scored against Spezia in these 4 matches.

Top Goalscorers

LazioC. Immobile
C. Immobile
5 goals
SpeziaM. N'Zola
M. N'Zola
3 goals
LazioL. Romero Alconchel
L. Romero Alconchel
2 goals

Lazio missing players

Spezia missing players

Lazio Spezia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
7 4 1 Played P 1 3 7
4 3 1 Won W 0 0 2
2 0 0 Drew D 0 0 2
1 1 0 Lost L 1 3 3
13 8 3 Scored S 0 0 7
5 4 1 Conceded C 1 6 11
86% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
86% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 67% 71%
57% 75% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 57%
29% 25% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
57% 75% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 43%
43% 25% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
14% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 100% 100% 43%
 
4.3 3.5 2 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4 4.3
5.4 4.8 4 Corners against (avg) C A 10 9 6.4
2.6 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.3 2.3
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
11 11 10 Shots (avg) S ( 9 7.3 9.1
5.1 5.8 6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 1.7 2.9
36% 35% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 35%
 
13.6 13.5 17 Shots against (avg) S A 30 22.3 19
3.4 4.2 8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 7 6 6.4
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Lazio's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Lazio have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Lazio have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Lazio have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Spezia have scored away.
  • Lazio have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Lazio have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Lazio haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Spezia have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Spezia have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Spezia have lost all their away matches so far.
  • Spezia have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Serie A
  • Spezia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 7 5 2 0 15 5 3 2 1 0 6 1 4 3 1 0 9 4 10 17
2 Atalanta 7 5 2 0 11 3 3 1 2 0 5 3 4 4 0 0 6 0 8 17
3 Udinese 7 5 1 1 15 7 4 3 1 0 8 1 3 2 0 1 7 6 8 16
4 Lazio 7 4 2 1 13 5 4 3 0 1 8 4 3 1 2 0 5 1 8 14
5 Milan 7 4 2 1 13 8 4 3 0 1 10 6 3 1 2 0 3 2 5 14
6 Roma 7 4 1 2 8 7 3 2 0 1 4 1 4 2 1 1 4 6 1 13
7 Inter 7 4 0 3 13 11 3 3 0 0 7 1 4 1 0 3 6 10 2 12
8 Juventus 7 2 4 1 9 5 4 2 2 0 8 3 3 0 2 1 1 2 4 10
9 Torino 7 3 1 3 6 7 3 1 1 1 1 1 4 2 0 2 5 6 -1 10
10 Fiorentina 7 2 3 2 7 6 4 2 2 0 6 3 3 0 1 2 1 3 1 9
11 Sassuolo 7 2 3 2 5 8 3 1 1 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 3 5 -3 9
12 Spezia 7 2 2 3 7 11 4 2 2 0 7 5 3 0 0 3 0 6 -4 8
13 Salernitana 7 1 4 2 10 8 4 1 1 2 7 5 3 0 3 0 3 3 2 7
14 Empoli 7 1 4 2 6 7 3 0 2 1 2 3 4 1 2 1 4 4 -1 7
15 Lecce 7 1 3 3 6 8 3 0 2 1 3 4 4 1 1 2 3 4 -2 6
16 Bologna 7 1 3 3 7 10 4 1 2 1 4 4 3 0 1 2 3 6 -3 6
17 Hellas Verona 7 1 2 4 6 13 3 1 0 2 4 7 4 0 2 2 2 6 -7 5
18 Monza 7 1 1 5 4 14 4 1 0 3 3 6 3 0 1 2 1 8 -10 4
19 Cremonese 7 0 2 5 5 14 3 0 1 2 1 6 4 0 1 3 4 8 -9 2
20 Sampdoria 7 0 2 5 4 13 4 0 2 2 2 5 3 0 0 3 2 8 -9 2

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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.