Betting guide: Lazio likely to beat Spezia at Stadio Olimpico

This promises to be an absorbing game with lots of spark and energy as both participants are well recovered since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's start!

Lazio's stadium, Stadio Olimpico, has a grass surface. Spezia have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Spezia when playing on grass; 15 wins, 12 draws and 20 losses from 47 matches. They have scored 63 goals in these games and conceded 74.

Lazio form and stats

The season before, Lazio's league statistics were 21 wins, 5 draws and 12 losses, results that produced 6th position in the Serie A. From these 38 matches they scored 61 goals and conceded 55. Appearing as the host team in the last season Lazio delivered 13-3-3 (win-draw-lost) with 36 goals and 23 conceded.

It's back home for Lazio, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Empoli away with the result 3-1. Manuel Lazzari, Sergej Milinković-Savić and Ciro Immobile found the net in that victory. Sergej Milinković-Savić (midfield was the top team player in that game with a rating of 8.85/10. Milinković-Savić scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 55 successful passes (of 66 total).

Heartbreak before that as Lazio lost 0-2 at Sassuolo's place.

Spezia form and stats

Let's have a look at how Spezia performed last season in the Serie A: They landed a 15th position in the league table after playing out 9 victories, 12 draws and 17 defeats. In total they scored 52 and conceded 72 goals in these matches. The numbers for away games only are: Won 4 - drew 5 and lost 10 with 24/39 goals scored/conceded. The visitors settled for one point in their first Serie A away game of the season. During their previous season 19 away games resulted in 4 wins, 5 draws and 10 defeats.

Spezia are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 2-2 draw at Cagliari (placed 9th). Petko Hristov was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.62. The defender Hristov won 7 of 9 duels. Drawing 2-2 against Cagliari after 90 minutes last time out was very disappointing after leading the match 2-0. Their manager T. Motta needs to evaluate why the team couldn't defend their result. Jeroen Zoet had red hot gloves after the game against Cagliari, shaping the outcome of the game with six saves made.

Preceding that game was the away Coppa Italia victory against Pordenone with the score of 3-1.

It's early days yet, but Spezia has scored 2 and conceded 2 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

As for the last two games between these two teams, there's two Lazio victories, zero draws and zero Spezia wins. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, zero matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

S. Milinković-Savić 1 goals

M. Lazzari 1 goals

C. Immobile 1 goals

Lazio missing players

Spezia missing players