Soccer betting preview: Cittadella welcomes Pordenone in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sat 18.September
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato (7623 seats)

This could be quite the engrossing contest at Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato in the Serie B. Cittadella is in 6th position and host Pordenone in 20th spot. Learn more about the match here!

Insights:
  • Pordenone have the fewest scored goals (0) in Serie B

This promises to be an interesting game with lots of action and excitement as both contenders are well rested since they last saw competitive action. Game on!

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Cittadella form and stats

As mentioned below, Cittadella are feasting on a winning streak here so far with maximum points from their first 2 Serie B games.

Cittadella faced defeat in their previous match, away at Cremonese (0-2). Attacking player Enrico Baldini outshone all teammates in that match and got a match rating of 7.42 out of 10. Baldini hit one key pass and dribled passed the opponent 3 of 4 times.

Before that game, the 4-2 home victory against Crotone.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Cittadella have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 13 matches with the results: Won eight, drawn two and lost three.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Cittadella as they are travelling to their away game against Benevento in the Serie B. That match is three days after this one.

Cittadella has scored 5 goals so far and conceded 2 goals from 2 home games. These are numbers from the league only.

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Pordenone form and stats

Pordenone have played one away game so far, a loss. Last season their away games stats in the Serie B were 5 victories, 5 draws and 9 defeats from 19 fixtures. Three has not been a lucky number for Pordenone as they have been defeated three times in a row since the Perugia match.

L. Crecco (own goal) was the last player to score for the away team. Pordenone haven't scored a league goal in the last 270 minutes.

Pordenone's previous game was their home loss versus Parma (0-4). Frank Tsadjout, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 7.15. Tsadjout hit three key passes and dribled passed the opponent 2 of 3 times. As you can see from the result above, the defeat against Parma was particularly ugly (0-4). The humiliation is still top of mind.

A 0-5 defeat away at SPAL before that.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found twelve similar matches played by Pordenone in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Pordenone, four draws and six defeats.

A new game in only three days for Pordenone, the Serie B home match versus Reggina. Busy days.

It's early days yet, but Pordenone has scored 0 and conceded 5 goals from their travels in the league so far (1 game).

Head 2 Head

As for the last six games between these two teams, there's four Cittadella victories, one draw and one Pordenone win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

CittadellaE. Baldini
E. Baldini
2 goals
CittadellaD. Adorni
D. Adorni
1 goals
CittadellaD. Frare
D. Frare
1 goals

Cittadella missing players

Pordenone missing players

Cittadella Pordenone
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
3 2 2 Played P 0 1 3
2 2 2 Won W 0 0 0
0 0 0 Drew D 0 0 0
1 0 0 Lost L 0 1 3
5 5 5 Scored S 0 0 0
4 2 2 Conceded C 0 5 10
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 0% 100% 100%
67% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 50% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 50% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 100% 67%
33% 50% 50% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 100% 33%
33% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 0%
33% 50% 50% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 0%
33% 0% 0% Failed to Score F T 0% 100% 100%
 
6 5.5 5.5 Corners for (avg) C F 0 3 4.3
2.3 3 3 Corners against (avg) C A 0 9 4
3 3.5 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 0 1 1.7
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
14.3 15 15 Shots (avg) S ( 0 7 11.3
8.7 10 10 Shots on Target (avg) S O 0 0 0.7
19% 25% 25% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 0% 0%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Pordenone have the fewest scored goals (0) in Serie B
  • Pordenone have the most conceded goals (10) in Serie B
  • Pordenone have the most conceded goals in the first half (6) in Serie B
  • Pordenone have the the worst goal difference (-10) in Serie B
Cittadella Last season Pordenone
Total Home   Statistics Stat   Away Total
43 22   Played P   19 38
17 11   Won W   5 10
13 7   Drew D   5 15
13 4   Lost L   9 13
53 29   Scored S   13 40
39 15   Conceded C   20 39
95% 95%   Over 0.5 O 0.5   84% 87%
65% 64%   Over 1.5 O 1.5   53% 68%
30% 32%   Over 2.5 O 2.5   21% 32%
16% 9%   Over 3.5 O 3.5   11% 13%
5% 0%   Over 4.5 O 4.5   5% 5%
40% 32%   BTTS BTTS   26% 42%
37% 55%   Clean Sheets C S   37% 37%
28% 18%   Failed to Score F T   53% 34%
 
6.1 5.6   Corners for (avg) C F   4.8 5.1
4.5 4.3   Corners against (avg) C A   4.8 5.1
2.8 2.5   Yellow cards (avg) Y C   2.2 2.4
3 2   Red cards R C   2 3
 
13.8 13.6   Shots (avg) S (   12.6 12.8
4.5 4.9   Shots on Target (avg) S O   3.3 3.7
27% 27%   Goal Efficiency G E   21% 28%

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Brescia 3 3 0 0 10 2 1 1 0 0 5 1 2 2 0 0 5 1 8 9
2 Pisa 3 3 0 0 7 1 2 2 0 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 4 1 6 9
3 Ascoli 3 3 0 0 5 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 4 2 3 9
4 Parma 3 2 1 0 7 2 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 1 0 6 2 5 7
5 Cremonese 3 2 0 1 5 1 2 2 0 0 5 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 6
6 Cittadella 3 2 0 1 5 4 2 2 0 0 5 2 1 0 0 1 0 2 1 6
7 Frosinone 3 1 2 0 4 2 2 0 2 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 0 2 5
8 Reggina 3 1 2 0 4 3 2 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 5
9 Monza 3 1 2 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 0 2 0 2 0 1 1 1 5
10 SPAL 3 1 1 1 6 2 2 1 1 0 6 1 1 0 0 1 0 1 4 4
11 Benevento 3 1 1 1 4 4 2 1 1 0 4 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 0 4
12 Perugia 3 1 1 1 3 3 1 0 0 1 2 3 2 1 1 0 1 0 0 4
13 Cosenza 3 1 0 2 3 7 1 1 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 2 1 6 -4 3
14 Como 3 0 2 1 3 4 1 0 0 1 0 1 2 0 2 0 3 3 -1 2
15 Crotone 3 0 2 1 5 7 2 0 2 0 3 3 1 0 0 1 2 4 -2 2
16 Lecce 3 0 2 1 1 4 1 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 1 1 0 3 -3 2
17 Vicenza 3 0 0 3 1 5 1 0 0 1 0 2 2 0 0 2 1 3 -4 0
18 Alessandria 3 0 0 3 4 9 1 0 0 1 1 3 2 0 0 2 3 6 -5 0
19 Ternana 3 0 0 3 3 9 2 0 0 2 1 6 1 0 0 1 2 3 -6 0
20 Pordenone 3 0 0 3 0 10 2 0 0 2 0 5 1 0 0 1 0 5 -10 0
Last season 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 38 19 16 3 68 35 19 11 8 0 38 15 19 8 8 3 30 20 33 73
2 Salernitana 38 19 12 7 46 34 19 11 6 2 26 13 19 8 6 5 20 21 12 69
3 Monza 38 17 13 8 51 33 19 9 6 4 27 16 19 8 7 4 24 17 18 64
4 Lecce 38 16 14 8 68 47 19 6 9 4 36 28 19 10 5 4 32 19 21 62
5 Venezia 38 15 14 9 53 39 19 10 3 6 28 19 19 5 11 3 25 20 14 59
6 Cittadella 38 15 12 11 48 35 19 9 7 3 25 14 19 6 5 8 23 21 13 57
7 Chievo 38 14 14 10 50 37 19 10 5 4 29 14 19 4 9 6 21 23 13 56
8 Brescia 38 15 11 12 61 53 19 9 5 5 36 27 19 6 6 7 25 26 8 56
9 SPAL 38 14 14 10 44 42 19 8 6 5 25 19 19 6 8 5 19 23 2 56
10 Reggina 38 12 14 12 42 45 19 8 4 7 20 22 19 4 10 5 22 23 -3 50
11 Frosinone 38 12 14 12 38 42 19 4 9 6 16 21 19 8 5 6 22 21 -4 50
12 Cremonese 38 12 12 14 46 44 19 7 6 6 27 22 19 5 6 8 19 22 2 48
13 Pisa 38 11 15 12 54 59 19 7 10 2 26 19 19 4 5 10 28 40 -5 48
14 Vicenza 38 11 15 12 48 53 19 5 9 5 22 24 19 6 6 7 26 29 -5 48
15 Pordenone 38 10 15 13 40 39 19 5 10 4 27 19 19 5 5 9 13 20 1 45
16 Ascoli 38 11 11 16 37 48 19 8 5 6 18 19 19 3 6 10 19 29 -11 44
17 Cosenza 38 6 17 15 29 47 19 3 9 7 15 20 19 3 8 8 14 27 -18 35
18 Reggiana 38 9 7 22 31 57 19 6 5 8 19 23 19 3 2 14 12 34 -26 34
19 Pescara 38 7 11 20 29 60 19 4 5 10 18 29 19 3 6 10 11 31 -31 32
20 Virtus Entella 38 4 11 23 30 64 19 3 4 12 17 35 19 1 7 11 13 29 -34 23

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.