Lecce vs Cremonese preview

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 02.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale Via del Mare (33876 seats)

Lecce are welcoming Cremonese for another highly important match following their 2-1 result against 13th-placed Salernitana.

Insights:
  • Lecce have yet to win a game at home.
  • Cremonese have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Serie A

Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Lecce form and stats

Three Serie A home games done for Lecce, who are not happy collecting 2 points from these matches. Lecce have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A good away victory last time out for Lecce, who won 2-1 against Salernitana (placed 13th). What a relief, as that was the first three points in the league after going winless in six fixtures in a row. Manager Baroni felt very clever after Strefezza scored the winning goal against Salernitana, having brought on that player as a substitute in the 78th minute. Midfield player Hjulmand got a match rating of 7.45 in that game, the max score being 10. Hjulmand served one assist, hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 32 successful passes (of 39 total).

In the match before that, Lecce hosted Monza and drew the game 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Lecce handle that role? We have found 12 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 4 wins, 6 draws and 2 defeats.

Lecce's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 4 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. Lecce has at home met teams with this table position (low), two times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 2 of 2 times.

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Cremonese form and stats

Playing away, Cremonese have won 0 games, drawn 1 and suffered 3 defeats in the Serie A this season.

Home advantage was not enough for Cremonese in their previous game as they lost hosting Lazio, 0-4. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Lazio was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind. Okereke, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.04. Okereke hit one key pass.

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Atalanta that ended 1-1.

Cremonese are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is 1 win, 3 draws and 3 defeats. From a total of 7 matches.

It's early days yet, but Cremonese has scored 4 and conceded 8 goals from their travels in the league so far (4 games).

Head 2 Head

H2H stats regardless of arena (last eight matches): Lecce four wins, two draws and Cremonese two victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less. The games between these teams have had a tendency to be a bit wild, having seen 4 red cards from the last eight duels.

Top Goalscorers

LecceG. Strefezza Rebelato
G. Strefezza Rebelato
2 goals
LecceA. Ceesay
A. Ceesay
2 goals
CremoneseD. Okereke
D. Okereke
2 goals

Lecce missing players

Cremonese missing players

Lecce Cremonese
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
7 3 2 Played P 0 4 7
1 0 0 Won W 0 0 0
3 2 2 Drew D 0 1 2
3 1 0 Lost L 0 3 5
6 3 2 Scored S 0 4 5
8 4 2 Conceded C 0 8 14
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 86%
71% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 75% 71%
29% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 50% 57%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 50% 43%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 14%
71% 100% 100% BTTS BTTS 0% 75% 57%
0% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 14%
29% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 25% 43%
 
4.9 5.7 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 4.8 4.6
5.3 6 5 Corners against (avg) C A 0 6.2 5.1
2.4 2.7 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 3.5 2.3
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
10.1 12 13 Shots (avg) S ( 0 12.5 13.3
3.4 4 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 3.7
25% 25% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 19%
 
11.6 10 6 Shots against (avg) S A 0 21.2 18.7
4.9 4.7 2.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 0 8.5 7.4
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Lecce's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cremonese have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Cremonese have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Cremonese have the fewest scored goals in the first half (1) in Serie A
  • Cremonese have yet to win a game.
  • Cremonese haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Lecce have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
  • Lecce have yet to win a game at home.
  • Lecce 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.