A key match in Serie B as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Benevento in 1st position and Spezia placed 3rd, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!
Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.
This stadium uses grass, unlike Spezia's home stadium. The visitors last 42 games on grass have ended in 9 wins, 13 draws and 20 losses.
Benevento form and stats
This stadium, Stadio Ciro Vigorito, has been a fortress for Benevento in the Serie B so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 10-3-0. Benevento haven’t lost a league-game in 16 attempts regardless of arena, a great achievement. Their last loss was the fixture versus Pescara, 126 days ago.
Benevento enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Virtus Entella's place. The match ended 4-0 with Marco Sau, Massimo Coda, Nicolas Viola and Roberto Insigne scoring. Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Pordenone.
As indicated by the result mentioned above, Benevento played a great game against Virtus Entella and beat them comfortably. Expectations are high for this one.
This is expected to be a close game, with Benevento perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Benevento as a small favourite), we find five games. Benevento has won two of these, drawn zero and lost three.
The manager F. Inzaghi will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Perugia in only three days.
Goals decide football matches and Benevento are scoring many of them at home; 27 on target from 13 league matches. As for guarding their own goal, Benevento have only let in 5 goals at home.
Spezia form and stats
As the visiting team in Serie B matches, Spezia have produced an overall stat of 4-5-3 so far. Things are running smoothly for Spezia who hasn't tasted defeat in their last 13 matches, regardless of venue and tournament. Their last defeat was against Pisa.
Spezia are the visiting side once again, their previous game being the 1-1 draw at Trapani (placed 19th). Prior to that match, a home win 3-1 against Ascoli.
As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 19 similar matches played by Spezia in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Spezia, seven draws and seven defeats.
A new game in only four days for Spezia, the Serie B home match versus Pescara. Busy days.
Spezia find the net regularly in their away games. 15 goals from 12 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Spezia have seen the ball go into their own net 12 times on the road.
Head 2 Head
The teams have played each other before this season, with the result Spezia - Benevento 0-1 entered in the official records. Head-2-head stats last six meetings: four - zero - two (Benevento wins - draws - Spezia wins). As for goals, four matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  B. Viola 8 goals | M. Coda 7 goals |  M. Sau 7 goals |
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| Benevento | Spezia | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 25 | 13 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 12 | 25 |
| 18 | 10 | 3 | Won | W | 2 | 4 | 11 |
| 6 | 3 | 1 | Drew | D | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 3 | 6 |
| 45 | 27 | 8 | Scored | S | 5 | 15 | 36 |
| 13 | 5 | 2 | Conceded | C | 1 | 12 | 26 |
| 96% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 83% | 88% |
| 76% | 77% | 75% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 75% | 76% |
| 32% | 31% | 25% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 48% |
| 20% | 23% | 25% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 8% | 20% |
| 8% | 15% | 25% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 8% | 12% |
| 36% | 38% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 50% | 52% |
| 60% | 62% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 50% | 33% | 36% |
| 8% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 33% | 24% |
| 5.2 | 5.2 | 5 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 5.5 | 4 | 4.3 |
| 4.2 | 4.2 | 4 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 5.5 | 5.3 | 4.7 |
| 2.1 | 2 | 1.8 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2.5 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| 5 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 357 | 219 | 59 | Total Shots | T S | 20 | 137 | 319 |
| 126 | 73 | 15 | Shots on Target | S O | 6 | 33 | 91 |
| 36% | 37% | 53% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 83% | 45% | 40% |
- Benevento has the fewest conceded goals (13)
- Benevento has the fewest conceded goals (5) at home
- Benevento has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (4)
- Benevento has the most clean sheets (15)
- Benevento has the most clean sheets (8) at home
- Benevento has the most points (33) at home
- Benevento has the most scored goals (27) at home
- Benevento has the most scored goals (45)
- Benevento has the the best goal difference (+22) at home
- Benevento has the the best goal difference (+32)
- Benevento have not yet lost a game at home.
- Benevento have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Benevento have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Benevento haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Spezia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 | Benevento | 25 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 45 | 13 | 13 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 27 | 5 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 32 | 60 |
| 2 | Frosinone | 25 | 12 | 7 | 6 | 30 | 19 | 12 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 21 | 7 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 11 | 43 |
| 3 | Spezia | 25 | 11 | 8 | 6 | 36 | 26 | 13 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 21 | 14 | 12 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 15 | 12 | 10 | 41 |
| 4 | Crotone | 25 | 12 | 4 | 9 | 41 | 31 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 25 | 12 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 7 | 16 | 19 | 10 | 40 |
| 5 | Salernitana | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 34 | 30 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 20 | 11 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 19 | 4 | 39 |
| 6 | Cittadella | 25 | 11 | 6 | 8 | 33 | 29 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 18 | 19 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 15 | 10 | 4 | 39 |
| 7 | Chievo | 25 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 31 | 25 | 12 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 18 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 7 | 3 | 13 | 13 | 6 | 37 |
| 8 | Pordenone | 25 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 32 | 33 | 13 | 8 | 3 | 2 | 18 | 8 | 12 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 14 | 25 | -1 | 36 |
| 9 | Empoli | 25 | 9 | 9 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 13 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 20 | 12 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 9 | 18 | -1 | 36 |
| 10 | Virtus Entella | 25 | 9 | 8 | 8 | 30 | 30 | 12 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 12 | 9 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 0 | 35 |
| 11 | Perugia | 25 | 9 | 6 | 10 | 27 | 33 | 13 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 15 | 13 | 12 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 20 | -6 | 33 |
| 12 | Pescara | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 36 | 37 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 21 | 17 | 12 | 5 | 0 | 7 | 15 | 20 | -1 | 32 |
| 13 | Juve Stabia | 25 | 9 | 5 | 11 | 29 | 38 | 13 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 18 | 18 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 20 | -9 | 32 |
| 14 | Ascoli | 24 | 9 | 4 | 11 | 34 | 35 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 2 | 9 | 16 | 25 | -1 | 31 |
| 15 | Venezia | 25 | 7 | 10 | 8 | 24 | 27 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 15 | 13 | 5 | 6 | 2 | 15 | 12 | -3 | 31 |
| 16 | Pisa | 25 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 33 | 34 | 13 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 18 | 17 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 15 | 17 | -1 | 30 |
| 17 | Cremonese | 24 | 6 | 8 | 10 | 24 | 29 | 12 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 16 | 11 | 12 | 1 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 18 | -5 | 26 |
| 18 | Cosenza | 25 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 27 | 30 | 12 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 6 | 18 | 17 | -3 | 23 |
| 19 | Trapani | 25 | 4 | 8 | 13 | 24 | 48 | 12 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 13 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 11 | 30 | -24 | 20 |
| 20 | Livorno | 25 | 3 | 5 | 17 | 20 | 42 | 12 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 15 | 26 | 13 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 16 | -22 | 14 |