Chievo favourites for feisty fight facing Cittadella

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Wed 27.January
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi (42160 seats)

This could be an interesting match as Chievo have their presumed home advantage while Cittadella are ahead 4 points in the Serie B table.

Insights:
  • Chievo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cittadella haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Chievo form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie B, Chievo have managed 4 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 8 games.

Chievo drew their last game, 0-0 away at Ascoli (placed 20th). Preceding that game was the away draw at Vicenza that finished 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Chievo handle that role? We have found 16 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are eight wins, five draws and three defeats.

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Serie B game versus Pescara in only four days. This game is also played here at Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi.

The Chievo fans have had their share of opportunities to cheer home goals this season, having seen 12 goals in 8 league matches. Chievo have only conceded 7 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Cittadella form and stats

The visitors are W4-D1-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Serie B.

Two away games in a row for Cittadella, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-1 versus Venezia in the Serie B. That result followed a home victory 1-0 versus Ascoli.

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

After this away game Cittadella return home for a Serie B game against Cremonese. That game is only four sleeps after this.

Cittadella find the net regularly in their away games. 13 goals from 9 away fixtures in the league. 9 goals have been conceded by Cittadella in these games.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last four meetings: two - two - zero (Chievo wins - draws - Cittadella wins). As for goals, two matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

CittadellaM. Gargiulo
M. Gargiulo
6 goals
CittadellaR. Ogunseye
R. Ogunseye
5 goals
ChievoL. Garritano
L. Garritano
4 goals

Chievo missing players

Cittadella missing players

Chievo Cittadella
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
18 8 3 Played P 2 9 18
7 4 0 Won W 1 4 10
8 2 1 Drew D 0 1 3
3 2 2 Lost L 1 4 5
23 12 3 Scored S 4 13 30
15 7 5 Conceded C 2 9 15
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
72% 88% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 72%
39% 50% 67% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 33% 44%
11% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 50% 33% 28%
6% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 50% 11% 6%
56% 62% 100% BTTS BTTS 50% 44% 39%
44% 38% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 22% 44%
17% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 33% 17%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.9 2.7 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 3.3 2.7
4 3 2 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.7 12.5 10 Shots (avg) S ( 16 14.1 14.6
3.9 4.1 2.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.5 4.7 5.4
33% 36% 38% Goal Efficiency G E 36% 31% 31%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Chievo have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Chievo have scored in all their home matches so far.
  • Chievo haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • Cittadella 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 Empoli 18 10 7 1 34 14 9 5 4 0 17 5 9 5 3 1 17 9 20 37
2 Salernitana 19 10 4 5 24 23 10 7 2 1 17 7 9 3 2 4 7 16 1 34
3 Cittadella 18 10 3 5 30 15 9 6 2 1 17 6 9 4 1 4 13 9 15 33
4 SPAL 18 9 5 4 25 16 9 6 2 1 17 6 9 3 3 3 8 10 9 32
5 Monza 18 8 7 3 27 14 9 5 3 1 17 5 9 3 4 2 10 9 13 31
6 Lecce 18 7 8 3 32 22 9 3 5 1 18 12 9 4 3 2 14 10 10 29
7 Chievo 18 7 8 3 23 15 8 4 2 2 12 7 10 3 6 1 11 8 8 29
8 Pordenone 19 6 10 3 22 15 9 2 6 1 14 10 10 4 4 2 8 5 7 28
9 Venezia 19 7 7 5 22 18 10 5 2 3 12 8 9 2 5 2 10 10 4 28
10 Frosinone 18 7 6 5 18 17 10 3 4 3 8 10 8 4 2 2 10 7 1 27
11 Pisa 18 5 8 5 25 31 8 3 4 1 9 9 10 2 4 4 16 22 -6 23
12 Vicenza 19 4 9 6 25 27 9 1 7 1 11 11 10 3 2 5 14 16 -2 21
13 Brescia 18 5 6 7 26 29 9 3 3 3 16 15 9 2 3 4 10 14 -3 21
14 Cremonese 18 4 6 8 17 23 9 2 3 4 8 13 9 2 3 4 9 10 -6 18
15 Reggina 19 4 6 9 17 26 9 3 1 5 9 11 10 1 5 4 8 15 -9 18
16 Reggiana 19 5 3 11 17 32 10 3 2 5 11 12 9 2 1 6 6 20 -15 18
17 Cosenza 19 2 11 6 13 16 10 0 6 4 4 9 9 2 5 2 9 7 -3 17
18 Virtus Entella 19 4 5 10 17 32 10 3 1 6 10 18 9 1 4 4 7 14 -15 17
19 Pescara 19 4 4 11 15 32 10 2 3 5 10 15 9 2 1 6 5 17 -17 16
20 Ascoli 19 3 5 11 15 27 9 3 2 4 7 11 10 0 3 7 8 16 -12 14

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.