Serie B preview: Can Brescia edge out victory against Cremonese?

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sat 23.October
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Mario Rigamonti (16743 seats)

Get ready for a show! The starring heroes are Brescia and Cremonese, victory is the target and 1 1/2 hours the length.

Insights:
  • Brescia have the most scored goals (19) in Serie B
  • Cremonese haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Brescia and Cremonese 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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Brescia form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie B, Brescia have managed 1 win, 1 draw and suffered 1 defeat from 3 games.

The fans are hoping that Brescia will strike back in this match, putting things right after the 0-1 away loss in the Serie B game against Perugia (placed 7th). Defender Andrea Cistana got the top score of the team in the match with a rating of 7.35/10. Cistana won 7 of 13 duels.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Como (2-4).

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 Brescia have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found six games) they have won two times, drawn three and lost one.

Brescia are showing their attacking force in their league home games this season, scoring more than 2,5 goals per game on average (9 goals in 3 games). Goals are flowing in at the wrong end for Brescia with 7 goals conceded in these matches.

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Cremonese form and stats

It's gone fairly well in the Serie B away games so far for Cremonese with six points collected from three matches. Winning streaks in away matches are not that common, but Cremonese are close to a proper streak after winning their two previous away games.

Cremonese's last game was the home draw against Benevento (1-1). As mentioned above, Cremonese drew the match against Benevento. Manager F. Pecchia brought on Nicolò Fagioli to rescue the draw from a losing position and it worked. Defender Matteo Bianchetti was the best team player with a rating of 7.81. Bianchetti hit one key pass and won 6 of 8 duels.

A home win before that, celebrating 2-0 vs Ternana.

Cremonese are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, five draws and six defeats. From a total of 13 matches.

Cremonese find the net regularly in their away games. 3 goals from 3 away fixtures in the league. It's not easy to score on Cremonese as they have only conceded 2 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

As for the last ten games between these two teams, there's two Brescia victories, five draws and three Cremonese wins. Over/under statistics; four of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BresciaR. Bajić
R. Bajić
3 goals
BresciaS. Moreo
S. Moreo
3 goals
BresciaT. van de Looi
T. van de Looi
2 goals

Brescia missing players

Cremonese missing players

Brescia Cremonese
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
8 3 0 Played P 0 3 8
4 1 0 Won W 0 2 5
2 1 0 Drew D 0 0 1
2 1 0 Lost L 0 1 2
19 9 0 Scored S 0 3 11
13 7 0 Conceded C 0 2 6
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
88% 100% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 33% 75%
75% 100% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 33% 38%
75% 100% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 67% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
75% 100% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 33% 25%
12% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 33% 50%
12% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 33% 25%
 
6 7 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3.7 3.9
5.5 6 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 3 5.2
2 1.3 0 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 2.3 2.5
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
16.2 21.7 0 Shots (avg) S ( 0 14.3 11.9
5.4 6.3 0 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 4 3.2
44% 47% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 42%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • All of Brescia's home-matches have had more than 3,5 goals.
  • Brescia have the most scored goals (19) in Serie B
  • Brescia have the most scored goals in the second half (11) in Serie B
  • Brescia haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Cremonese haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  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 8 6 1 1 16 6 4 4 0 0 7 1 4 2 1 1 9 5 10 19
2 Cremonese 8 5 1 2 11 6 5 3 1 1 8 4 3 2 0 1 3 2 5 16
3 Lecce 8 4 3 1 13 8 3 2 1 0 7 3 5 2 2 1 6 5 5 15
4 Brescia 8 4 2 2 19 13 3 1 1 1 9 7 5 3 1 1 10 6 6 14
5 Ascoli 8 4 2 2 13 11 4 1 1 2 4 6 4 3 1 0 9 5 2 14
6 Benevento 8 3 4 1 12 7 4 2 2 0 8 4 4 1 2 1 4 3 5 13
7 Perugia 8 3 4 1 9 5 4 1 2 1 5 5 4 2 2 0 4 0 4 13
8 Reggina 8 3 4 1 8 7 4 2 2 0 5 3 4 1 2 1 3 4 1 13
9 Cittadella 8 4 1 3 9 10 5 3 1 1 7 4 3 1 0 2 2 6 -1 13
10 Frosinone 8 2 5 1 9 6 4 0 3 1 4 5 4 2 2 0 5 1 3 11
11 Cosenza 8 3 2 3 8 10 4 3 1 0 6 2 4 0 1 3 2 8 -2 11
12 Parma 8 2 4 2 12 10 4 1 2 1 3 3 4 1 2 1 9 7 2 10
13 Monza 8 2 4 2 7 8 3 2 1 0 5 2 5 0 3 2 2 6 -1 10
14 Ternana 8 3 1 4 11 14 4 2 0 2 5 7 4 1 1 2 6 7 -3 10
15 SPAL 8 2 3 3 12 9 4 2 2 0 11 5 4 0 1 3 1 4 3 9
16 Como 8 2 3 3 10 11 4 1 1 2 3 4 4 1 2 1 7 7 -1 9
17 Crotone 8 1 4 3 11 16 5 1 3 1 7 9 3 0 1 2 4 7 -5 7
18 Alessandria 8 1 1 6 9 18 3 1 0 2 3 6 5 0 1 4 6 12 -9 4
19 Vicenza 8 1 0 7 8 15 4 0 0 4 1 7 4 1 0 3 7 8 -7 3
20 Pordenone 8 0 1 7 5 22 5 0 1 4 4 13 3 0 0 3 1 9 -17 1

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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.