Serie A match preview: Sassuolo believed to be the weaker party when Inter pays a visit

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sat 08.October
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: MAPEI Stadium - Città del Tricolore (21584 seats)

Sassuolo and Inter have delivered a "par" performance up to now, to use a golf term. The teams both have mid-table places in the Serie A.

Insights:
  • Sassuolo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Inter have the most matches over the total-line (7) in Serie A

Inter could be less fresh than the hosts in this fixture, as they played a Champions League game only four sleeps ago.

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Sassuolo form and stats

Sassuolo have collected 7 points from their Serie A home games so far after 2-1-1.

Defensively the home team are doing well, with their goalkeeper Andrea Consigli not having conceded a league goal in 180 minutes.

A nice win for Sassuolo last time playing, versus Salernitana. That was also a home game and the match ended 5-0 with Pinamonti, Harroui, Antiste, Thorstvedt and Lauriente scoring for the victors. As mentioned above, Sassuolo "killed" Salernitana in their previous game. They need to reset completely for this one and beware of complacency. The striker Lauriente was announced as "man of the match" for Sassuolo with a rating of 8.11/10. Lauriente scored one goal, served one assist, hit five key passes and had 30 successful passes (of 34 total).

In the preceding match a 1-0 victory visiting Torino.

The Sassuolo fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 7 goals in 4 league matches. From these home matches, Sassuolo have conceded only 3 goals.

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Inter form and stats

1 win, 0 draws and 3 losses. That’s the product of Inter playing as the away team in the Serie A this season.

The fans enjoyed Inter's previous match versus Barcelona, a Champions League win (1-0) played at home. Goalkeeper Onana got the top player rating of the team with 7.63/10. Onana topped it up with a clean sheet.

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

There might be some complaints about the fixture list from the Inter manager Inzaghi as the team has another away game coming up in only four days, this time against Barcelona.

The travelling fans enjoy Inter's attacking play in away games, having scored 6 goals in 4 league matches away. Inter have conceded 10 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

Previous ten meetings featuring these participants: Sassuolo won four, Inter were winners in four and we saw two draws. six games with more than 2,5 goals, four matches with under 2,5 goals.

Top Goalscorers

InterL. Martínez
L. Martínez
3 goals
SassuoloD. Frattesi
D. Frattesi
2 goals
SassuoloA. Pinamonti
A. Pinamonti
2 goals

Sassuolo missing players

Inter missing players

Sassuolo Inter
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
8 4 1 Played P 1 4 8
3 2 1 Won W 1 1 4
3 1 0 Drew D 0 0 0
2 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
10 7 1 Scored S 2 6 14
8 3 0 Conceded C 1 10 13
75% 75% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
50% 50% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 100% 88%
50% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 100% 100% 88%
38% 50% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 75% 50%
12% 25% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 25% 12%
25% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 100% 100% 75%
62% 75% 100% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 25%
38% 25% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 0% 0%
 
3.5 3.5 5 Corners for (avg) C F 8 5.2 6
3.9 5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 4.2 4.1
2.2 3 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.2 1.8
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.1 10 12 Shots (avg) S ( 18 16.5 17
5.2 4 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 9 6.5 5.8
24% 44% 50% Goal Efficiency G E 22% 23% 30%
 
10 10.5 8 Shots against (avg) S A 10 15.5 12.4
2.1 2 1 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.5 4.9
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • All of Inter's away-matches have had more than 2,5 goals.
  • Inter have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • Inter have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Inter have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Inter have the fewest matches under the total-line (1) in Serie A
  • Inter have the most matches over the total-line (7) in Serie A
  • Inter haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Sassuolo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.

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