Home advantage could prove decisive in Udinese - Sassuolo battle

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Competition: Italy Serie A
Competition: Sun 12.February
Match begins: 11:30 (UTC)
Venue: Dacia Arena (25000 seats)

The home team ticketholders plan for a win in this match, as the home advantage should work versus a struggling visitor. Udinese are in 8th spot while the guesting Sassuolo worry at 15th.

Insights:
  • Udinese have the most points from losing position (17) in Serie A
  • Sassuolo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Udinese and Sassuolo should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

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Udinese form and stats

Udinese have collected 14 points from their Serie A home games so far after 3-5-2.

The supporters are hoping that Udinese will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the match against Torino (placed 7th). Defender Becão got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.64/10. Becão won 9 of 10 duels.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Hellas Verona.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Udinese handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 1 draw and 2 defeats.

Trench warfare? In this club's last 10 league games, 8 have seen less than three goals (under 2.5).

A decent goal production from Udinese in their home games so far, with 15 goals from 10 league matches.

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Sassuolo form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Sassuolo so far with only 9 points returning home. The records show 2-3-6 (win-draw-lose).

Impressive finishing from Laurienté secured the home win 1-0 against Atalanta in their previous game. Attacker Berardi got a player rating of 8.03 in the game. "Man of the match" Berardi hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Milan at their stadium, the result 5-2.

We have checked recent matches where Sassuolo have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 5 games were 2 victories, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Sassuolo's defence is not exactly unbeatable as they have conceded 20 goals from these trips.

Head 2 Head

Udinese have put together a streak of 9 consecutive games without losing (5-4-0) when facing Sassuolo.

The previous head to head encounter ended Sassuolo - Udinese 1-3, earlier this season.

Top Goalscorers

UdineseN. Bercique Gomes Betuncal
N. Bercique Gomes Betuncal
7 goals
SassuoloD. Frattesi
D. Frattesi
5 goals
UdineseL. Samardžić
L. Samardžić
4 goals

Udinese missing players

Sassuolo missing players

Udinese Sassuolo
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 10 3 Played P 6 11 21
7 3 0 Won W 1 2 6
8 5 3 Drew D 1 3 5
6 2 0 Lost L 4 6 10
28 15 2 Scored S 3 11 24
23 10 2 Conceded C 10 20 31
86% 90% 67% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 91% 90%
67% 80% 67% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 73% 71%
48% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 64% 57%
29% 30% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 27% 24%
10% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 9% 10%
62% 70% 67% BTTS BTTS 33% 45% 48%
29% 30% 33% Clean Sheets C S 17% 18% 29%
24% 10% 33% Failed to Score F T 50% 45% 33%
 
5.1 6.2 7.7 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4 4.2
5.1 4.4 4.7 Corners against (avg) C A 5 4.5 4.4
2.1 1.9 1.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 1.5 2 2.6
1 1 1 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
15.1 17.1 19.7 Shots (avg) S ( 12 13 13.1
4.2 4.5 5.3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 4.7 4.4
31% 33% 12% Goal Efficiency G E 14% 21% 26%
 
11.8 11.8 11.7 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 12.8 12
3.3 3.1 3.3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 3.6 3.4
Key stats in Serie A this season:
  • Sassuolo have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Udinese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Udinese have the most points from losing position (17) in Serie A
  • Udinese have won significantly more corners at home than 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 Napoli 21 18 2 1 51 15 10 9 1 0 28 8 11 9 1 1 23 7 36 56
2 Inter 21 14 1 6 41 26 11 9 0 2 22 5 10 5 1 4 19 21 15 43
3 Roma 21 12 4 5 28 18 10 6 1 3 12 5 11 6 3 2 16 13 10 40
4 Lazio 20 11 5 4 36 16 11 6 3 2 21 10 9 5 2 2 15 6 20 38
5 Atalanta 21 11 5 5 39 24 10 5 2 3 21 13 11 6 3 2 18 11 15 38
6 Milan 21 11 5 5 37 30 10 7 1 2 24 16 11 4 4 3 13 14 7 38
7 Torino 21 8 6 7 22 22 10 4 3 3 8 6 11 4 3 4 14 16 0 30
8 Udinese 21 7 8 6 28 23 10 3 5 2 15 10 11 4 3 4 13 13 5 29
9 Bologna 21 8 5 8 28 31 11 5 4 2 16 9 10 3 1 6 12 22 -3 29
10 Empoli 21 6 8 7 19 26 10 4 3 3 10 10 11 2 5 4 9 16 -7 26
11 Monza 20 7 4 9 25 28 10 4 2 4 14 11 10 3 2 5 11 17 -3 25
12 Fiorentina 21 6 6 9 23 28 11 4 3 4 15 17 10 2 3 5 8 11 -5 24
13 Juventus 20 11 5 4 30 17 11 7 3 1 24 8 9 4 2 3 6 9 13 23
14 Lecce 21 5 8 8 21 24 10 2 5 3 12 13 11 3 3 5 9 11 -3 23
15 Sassuolo 21 6 5 10 24 31 10 4 2 4 13 11 11 2 3 6 11 20 -7 23
16 Salernitana 20 5 6 9 25 38 10 3 3 4 14 13 10 2 3 5 11 25 -13 21
17 Spezia 21 4 6 11 17 35 11 2 6 3 13 17 10 2 0 8 4 18 -18 18
18 Hellas Verona 20 3 4 13 18 32 10 3 0 7 12 17 10 0 4 6 6 15 -14 13
19 Sampdoria 20 2 3 15 8 34 10 0 2 8 2 16 10 2 1 7 6 18 -26 9
20 Cremonese 21 0 8 13 15 37 11 0 3 8 5 19 10 0 5 5 10 18 -22 8

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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.