The visiting SPAL side should be favourites in this visit to Ascoli, as the away team holds a 20 point advantage from their 14 league games this season.
- Ascoli has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Serie B
- SPAL has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Serie B
Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!
Ascoli form and stats
Ascoli's results here at Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca in the Serie B have been very modest with 1 victory, 1 draw and 4 defeats. All in all it has been a very rough period for Ascoli who hasn’t won a league-game in their last ten attempts. Their previous win was against Reggiana, 67 days ago. Ascoli are very eager to stop a potential losing streak at Stadio Cino e Lillo Del Duca, having lost their two previous games here.
Ascoli faced defeat in their previous match, away at Monza (0-2). Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Vicenza (1-2).
There will be little rest for Ascoli after this match as they are travelling to Empoli for a Serie B game in only three days.
Ascoli has huge difficulties finding the net and are scoring on average only once per two home matches in the league: 3 goals from 6 games. Defensively it’s touch-and-go for the home team as 10 goals have been conceded.
SPAL form and stats
2 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses. That’s the product of SPAL, who have the fewest conceded goals (10) in Serie B, playing as the away team in the Serie B this season.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. SPAL goalkeeper Demba Thiam is eager to challenge this, with his 272 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
The supporters enjoyed SPAL's previous game versus Lecce (placed 8th), a Serie B 1-0 win played at home. Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Venezia.
A quick return to home after this game, as SPAL are hosting Brescia in the Serie B only three days away.
The visitors have scored 6 goals from 7 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. As opposed to that, SPAL have seen the ball go into their own net 7 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
H2H stats regardless of arena (last four matches): Ascoli one win, two draws and SPAL one victory. As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), three games had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  R. Bajić 5 goals | A. Sabiri 3 goals |   L. Nahuel Castro 3 goals |
Ascoli missing players
SPAL missing players
| Ascoli | SPAL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 14 | 6 | 0 | Played | P | 2 | 7 | 14 |
| 1 | 1 | 0 | Won | W | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | 4 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | 3 | 0 | Scored | S | 2 | 6 | 19 |
| 24 | 10 | 0 | Conceded | C | 0 | 7 | 10 |
| 100% | 100% | 0% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 71% | 79% |
| 79% | 83% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 0% | 43% | 57% |
| 43% | 33% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 29% | 29% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 14% | 21% |
| 7% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 14% | 14% |
| 50% | 33% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 0% | 29% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 100% | 57% | 64% |
| 50% | 67% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 43% | 29% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2.5 | 2.7 | 0 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 3.5 | 3.1 | 3 |
| 4 | 3 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 12.1 | 11.2 | 0 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8.5 | 9.7 | 12.4 |
| 3.9 | 2.8 | 0 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3 | 2.9 | 3.5 |
| 19% | 18% | 0% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 33% | 30% | 39% |
- Ascoli has the fewest clean sheets (0) in Serie B
- Ascoli has the fewest scored goals in the second half (4) in Serie B
- Ascoli have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
- Ascoli have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their matches.
- Ascoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- SPAL has the fewest conceded goals (10) in Serie B
- SPAL has the most clean sheets (9) in Serie B
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Salernitana | 14 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 20 | 12 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 15 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 8 | 28 |
| 2 | Empoli | 14 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 23 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 4 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 27 |
| 3 | Cittadella | 13 | 8 | 2 | 3 | 25 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 14 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 7 | 14 | 26 |
| 4 | SPAL | 14 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 19 | 10 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 26 |
| 5 | Frosinone | 14 | 7 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 24 |
| 6 | Monza | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 20 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 3 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 8 | 23 |
| 7 | Venezia | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 6 | 23 |
| 8 | Lecce | 14 | 5 | 6 | 3 | 27 | 19 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 8 | 8 | 21 |
| 9 | Chievo | 13 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 17 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 5 | 20 |
| 10 | Brescia | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 22 | 20 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 15 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 2 | 18 |
| 11 | Pisa | 14 | 4 | 6 | 4 | 21 | 27 | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 13 | 18 | -6 | 18 |
| 12 | Pordenone | 14 | 3 | 8 | 3 | 14 | 14 | 7 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 9 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 17 |
| 13 | Vicenza | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 12 | -2 | 16 |
| 14 | Cremonese | 14 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 15 | 18 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 9 | -3 | 15 |
| 15 | Reggiana | 13 | 4 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 22 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 15 | -7 | 15 |
| 16 | Cosenza | 14 | 2 | 7 | 5 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 5 | -1 | 13 |
| 17 | Pescara | 14 | 3 | 3 | 8 | 14 | 25 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 12 |
| 18 | Reggina | 14 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 13 | 22 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -9 | 11 |
| 19 | Ascoli | 14 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 10 | 24 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 14 | -14 | 6 |
| 20 | Virtus Entella | 14 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 29 | 7 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 17 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 12 | -20 | 5 |