Examine their own game plan or look more at the opponent? Both Alessandria and SPAL must try something different than what they have done so far. Learn more!
- Alessandria have the fewest scored goals (12) at home in Serie B
This should be an exciting match with lots of action and energy as both participants are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Let's start!
Alessandria form and stats
The story so far in the Serie B for Alessandria, who have the fewest scored goals (12) at home in Serie B, at their home stadium (Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta) is 4 wins, 4 draws and 7 defeats. When Alessandria hosts teams that live in the bottom of the table (like Alessandria, Parma, Vicenza, Cosenza, Crotone and Pordenone), they have won 2 of 3 matches! The home team are struggling everywhere these days as they haven't won a league-game, regardless of being the home or the away team, in twelve attempts.
Times are rough for the home team, having gone 363 minutes without scoring a league goal. Casarini was the last player to find the net.
The supporters are hoping that Alessandria will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 0-3 away loss in the game against Ternana (placed 12th). Marconi, who plays in attack, was the top performer for the team in that match, and was presented with a rating of 7.04 (out of 10). Marconi dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.
Preceding that match was a defeat to Monza (0-3).This is expected to be a close game, with Alessandria perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Alessandria as a small favourite), we find nine games. Alessandria has won three of these, drawn three and lost three.
The manager Longo will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Cremonese in only three days.
The goals haven't exactly been flowing for Alessandria here at Stadio Giuseppe Moccagatta in the league, with less than one goal per game on average (12 from 15 games). Alessandria have conceded 20 in these home matches. Alessandria has at home met teams with this table position (low), three times. It has ended with less than 2.5 goals 3 of 3 times.
SPAL form and stats
4 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses. That’s the product of SPAL playing as the away team in the Serie B this season.
The manager Venturato was unhappy after their last game, played at their home ground Stadio Paolo Mazza. SPAL suffered a 0-2 loss to Cremonese (placed 1st). Defender Dickmann was the best team player with a rating of 7.64. Dickmann hit four key passes and won 8 of 13 duels.
Before that, SPAL travelled to Perugia and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found ten similar matches played by SPAL in our archives, and the results are: two wins for SPAL, three draws and five defeats.
A new game in only three days for SPAL, the Serie B home match versus Cosenza. Busy days.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting SPAL as they have only managed to score 11 times from 15 away games in the league. 21 goals have been conceded by SPAL in these games. More than 60 % of these were let in from the 60th minute and onwards in these in the last 30 minutes of matches.
Head 2 Head
The records show that this isn''t the first time these sides get together this campaign, as the statistics show this recent match: SPAL - Alessandria 2-3. Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - one - one (Alessandria wins - draws - SPAL wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), one had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Corazza 9 goals |   L. Colombo 6 goals |  M. Mancosu 6 goals |
Alessandria missing players
SPAL missing players
| Alessandria | SPAL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 31 | 15 | 3 | Played | P | 5 | 15 | 31 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 7 | 4 | 0 | Drew | D | 2 | 5 | 11 |
| 18 | 7 | 1 | Lost | L | 1 | 6 | 13 |
| 28 | 12 | 2 | Scored | S | 5 | 11 | 35 |
| 51 | 20 | 2 | Conceded | C | 7 | 21 | 46 |
| 97% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 93% | 90% |
| 81% | 73% | 33% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 80% | 67% | 77% |
| 42% | 27% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 40% | 33% | 45% |
| 19% | 13% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 20% | 20% | 32% |
| 10% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 13% |
| 45% | 47% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 60% | 40% | 55% |
| 19% | 27% | 67% | Clean Sheets | C S | 20% | 27% | 23% |
| 39% | 27% | 33% | Failed to Score | F T | 20% | 40% | 32% |
| 5.6 | 7.1 | 7.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5 | 4.4 | 4.9 |
| 5.1 | 5.3 | 5.7 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4.8 | 5.3 | 5.1 |
| 2.7 | 2.7 | 2.7 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.6 | 2.8 | 2.4 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 3 | 4 |
| 12 | 13.9 | 13.3 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11 | 11.8 | 14.9 |
| 4.1 | 4.5 | 4.3 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.5 | 4.7 |
| 22% | 18% | 15% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 29% | 21% | 24% |
| 12.7 | 11.4 | 9.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 15.8 | 14 | 13.7 |
| 4.3 | 4 | 2.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5 | 4.9 | 4.7 |
- Alessandria have the fewest scored goals (12) at home in Serie B
- Alessandria have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Alessandria haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 | Cremonese | 31 | 17 | 8 | 6 | 47 | 29 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 14 | 16 | 8 | 3 | 5 | 21 | 15 | 18 | 59 |
| 2 | Pisa | 31 | 16 | 10 | 5 | 40 | 24 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 1 | 22 | 11 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 18 | 13 | 16 | 58 |
| 3 | Monza | 31 | 16 | 9 | 6 | 51 | 30 | 16 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 31 | 13 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 17 | 21 | 57 |
| 4 | Lecce | 31 | 14 | 14 | 3 | 49 | 27 | 15 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 32 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 9 | 2 | 17 | 13 | 22 | 56 |
| 5 | Brescia | 31 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 47 | 32 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 23 | 19 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 24 | 13 | 15 | 54 |
| 6 | Benevento | 30 | 14 | 9 | 7 | 47 | 29 | 15 | 8 | 4 | 3 | 30 | 15 | 15 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 17 | 14 | 18 | 51 |
| 7 | Frosinone | 31 | 13 | 12 | 6 | 47 | 31 | 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 27 | 12 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 20 | 19 | 16 | 51 |
| 8 | Ascoli | 31 | 14 | 7 | 10 | 43 | 39 | 15 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 26 | 22 | 4 | 49 |
| 9 | Perugia | 31 | 11 | 13 | 7 | 33 | 27 | 16 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 18 | 13 | 6 | 46 |
| 10 | Cittadella | 31 | 11 | 11 | 9 | 33 | 30 | 15 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 19 | 14 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 14 | 16 | 3 | 44 |
| 11 | Reggina | 31 | 12 | 7 | 12 | 28 | 36 | 16 | 8 | 2 | 6 | 17 | 17 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 19 | -8 | 43 |
| 12 | Ternana | 31 | 11 | 8 | 12 | 45 | 46 | 16 | 8 | 1 | 7 | 24 | 19 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 21 | 27 | -1 | 41 |
| 13 | Como | 31 | 9 | 14 | 8 | 37 | 40 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 16 | 15 | 16 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 21 | 25 | -3 | 41 |
| 14 | Parma | 31 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 37 | 33 | 16 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 19 | 14 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 4 | 18 | 19 | 4 | 39 |
| 15 | SPAL | 31 | 7 | 11 | 13 | 35 | 46 | 16 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 24 | 25 | 15 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 11 | 21 | -11 | 32 |
| 16 | Alessandria | 31 | 6 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 51 | 15 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 12 | 20 | 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 16 | 31 | -23 | 25 |
| 17 | Vicenza | 31 | 6 | 6 | 19 | 31 | 52 | 16 | 4 | 4 | 8 | 18 | 22 | 15 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 13 | 30 | -21 | 24 |
| 18 | Cosenza | 30 | 5 | 9 | 16 | 26 | 47 | 14 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 16 | 0 | 6 | 10 | 11 | 30 | -21 | 24 |
| 19 | Crotone | 31 | 3 | 10 | 18 | 31 | 51 | 15 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 18 | 20 | 16 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 31 | -20 | 19 |
| 20 | Pordenone | 31 | 2 | 8 | 21 | 22 | 57 | 16 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 27 | 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 30 | -35 | 14 |
