Benevento favourites for feisty fight facing Monza

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Thu 13.January
Match begins: 19:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Ciro Vigorito (12847 seats)

Welcome to the show! Today's main roles are Benevento and Monza, 3 points is the objective and 1 1/2 hours the duration.

Insights:
  • Benevento have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Benevento have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Monza have scored away.

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Benevento form and stats

The story so far in the Serie B for Benevento at their home stadium (Stadio Ciro Vigorito) is 5 wins, 2 draws and 2 defeats. The team is doing great wherever they are playing as Benevento has won four games in a row. The Pisa match was the last time out without a victory.

Benevento are hoping to put things right at home after a defeat in their previous match, the score 1-2 away versus Fiorentina. The forward Moncini was declared "man of the match" for Benevento with a rating of 7.33/10. Moncini scored one goal.

Before that match, a Serie B win away at Ternana.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Benevento have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found ten games) they have won six times, drawn two and lost two.

Benevento are traveling soon after this match as the Serie B match at SPAL awaits in three days.

Benevento can score goals in their home matches. After 9 league matches they have found the net 18 times. Benevento's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 10 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Monza form and stats

Monza have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Serie B, after 1-6-2 (9 played). In general it has been a productive period now for Monza as they haven't lost any of their last ten games.

Impressive finishing from Augusto, Ciurria and Mazzitelli secured the home win 3-2 against Frosinone in their previous game. An amazing comeback from Monza last time out, trailing 0-2 before rallying an inspired fight which eventually led to Mazzitelli scoring the winning goal in the 90th minute. The 3-2 victory against Frosinone could easily have been bigger as the victors made a valiant effort at breaking the goal posts, hitting them three times. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Stroppa when Mazzitelli scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 73rd minute. The end of the last match, against Frosinone, was very satisfying as Mazzitelli scored the winning goal deep into overtime. Attacker Gytkjær got a player rating of 7.61 in the game. "Man of the match" Gytkjær hit the woodwork once and dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times.

Before that one, a nice away victory 2-0 at Brescia.

We have checked recent matches where Monza have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those two games were zero victories, one draw and one defeat.

After this away game Monza return home for a Serie B game against Perugia. That game is only three sleeps after this.

The visitors have scored 7 goals from 9 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 4 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 9 goals have been conceded by Monza in these games.

Head 2 Head

Benevento-Monza H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Benevento two wins, Monza one win, zero draws. two of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

BeneventoG. Lapadula
G. Lapadula
10 goals
MonzaD. Carvalho
D. Carvalho
6 goals
BeneventoA. Tello Muñoz
A. Tello Muñoz
3 goals

Benevento missing players

Monza missing players

Benevento Monza
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
17 9 2 Played P 3 9 17
9 5 0 Won W 1 1 8
4 2 1 Drew D 0 6 7
4 2 1 Lost L 2 2 2
29 18 0 Scored S 3 7 24
16 10 1 Conceded C 5 9 16
88% 78% 50% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 78% 88%
71% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 71%
41% 67% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 22% 35%
29% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 24%
24% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
41% 44% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 56% 59%
41% 44% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 33% 35%
29% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 33% 18%
 
6 6.7 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4.3 6.1 5.3
5.4 5.7 8 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.4 5.1
2.2 2.1 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 3 2.6
2 1 0 Red cards R C 1 3 3
 
15.1 15.7 10.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8 8.7 10.4
3.9 4.1 0.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.7 2.8 3.1
43% 49% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 28% 45%
 
12.2 12.7 14.5 Shots against (avg) S A 11.3 11.6 12.1
4.2 4.8 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 3.8 3.8
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Benevento have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Benevento have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Monza have scored 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 Pisa 18 11 5 2 26 12 9 6 3 0 12 4 9 5 2 2 14 8 14 38
2 Brescia 18 10 4 4 30 20 9 3 3 3 13 12 9 7 1 1 17 8 10 34
3 Cremonese 18 9 5 4 27 17 9 4 4 1 14 9 9 5 1 3 13 8 10 32
4 Lecce 17 8 7 2 29 15 8 5 3 0 19 7 9 3 4 2 10 8 14 31
5 Benevento 17 9 4 4 29 16 9 5 2 2 18 10 8 4 2 2 11 6 13 31
6 Monza 17 8 7 2 24 16 8 7 1 0 17 7 9 1 6 2 7 9 8 31
7 Cittadella 18 8 5 5 21 18 9 5 2 2 14 8 9 3 3 3 7 10 3 29
8 Frosinone 18 6 10 2 28 17 10 3 6 1 15 10 8 3 4 1 13 7 11 28
9 Perugia 18 6 9 3 19 16 9 3 4 2 10 9 9 3 5 1 9 7 3 27
10 Ascoli 18 7 5 6 22 24 9 2 3 4 8 13 9 5 2 2 14 11 -2 26
11 Como 18 6 7 5 25 22 9 3 3 3 10 8 9 3 4 2 15 14 3 25
12 Ternana 18 6 5 7 27 27 9 4 1 4 13 12 9 2 4 3 14 15 0 23
13 Parma 18 5 8 5 21 21 8 2 4 2 6 6 10 3 4 3 15 15 0 23
14 Reggina 18 6 5 7 16 24 9 3 2 4 9 13 9 3 3 3 7 11 -8 23
15 SPAL 18 5 5 8 22 26 9 2 3 4 16 16 9 3 2 4 6 10 -4 20
16 Alessandria 18 5 2 11 19 29 9 3 1 5 6 12 9 2 1 6 13 17 -10 17
17 Cosenza 18 4 4 10 15 29 9 4 1 4 9 9 9 0 3 6 6 20 -14 16
18 Crotone 18 2 5 11 20 32 10 2 4 4 13 16 8 0 1 7 7 16 -12 11
19 Pordenone 18 1 5 12 15 37 9 1 3 5 9 17 9 0 2 7 6 20 -22 8
20 Vicenza 17 2 1 14 15 32 8 0 1 7 6 15 9 2 0 7 9 17 -17 7

Read more about Serie B

Serie B is the second highest division in Italian football. It usually has 22 teams playing two fixtures against each other. The two top teams of the league table are automatically promoted, with a third following depending on standings and/or a playoff. Matches are usually played on Saturdays.