Cittadella will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 7 points behind SPAL.
- Cittadella have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- SPAL has the most clean sheets (6) in Serie B
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.
Cittadella form and stats
Overall Serie B stats at home this season for Cittadella are 2-1-1 (wins-draw-losses).
In their previous game, the manager R. Venturato led his Cittadella to a defeat in the Serie B match away at Salernitana. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadio Pier Cesare Tombolato. Before that match, a win away at Pisa.
There's a new fixture coming up fairly quickly for Cittadella, as the Serie B home game vs Vicenza is only three days away.
With an average of more than two goals per home game in the league (8 in 4 games), Cittadella's attacking play is working. 4 goals have been conceded.
SPAL form and stats
2-2-1 is the win-draw-loss statistic for SPAL, who have the most clean sheets (6) in Serie B, in their Serie B matches away. Impressively, the visitors are on a six-match winning run which they hope continue versus Cittadella. It could be a hat trick of victories away for SPAL, as they have won on their previous two travels.
Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. SPAL goalkeeper Demba Thiam is eager to challenge this, with his 490 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.
The supporters enjoyed SPAL's previous game versus Pisa (placed 17th), a Serie B 4-0 win played at home. Preceding that game was the away victory against Virtus Entella with the score of 1-0.
As mentioned above, SPAL was the only team on the pitch versus Pisa in their previous game, winning 4-0. This could be a tougher task.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Chievo in just three days.
Scoring goals is the main ingredient in creating success in football, and not only at home. So far SPAL have scored 6 goals in 5 league games away. SPAL have conceded 5 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Head-to-head totals (for the last three meetings): Cittadella won one game, zero matches ended with a draw and SPAL has two wins. Over 2,5 goals / under 2,5 goals: two / oneTop Goalscorers
  M. Gargiulo 4 goals |   L. Nahuel Castro 3 goals |  F. Di Francesco 3 goals |
Cittadella missing players
SPAL missing players
| Cittadella | SPAL | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 3 | 5 | 10 |
| 4 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 2 | 6 |
| 2 | 1 | 1 | Drew | D | 2 | 2 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 16 | 8 | 2 | Scored | S | 4 | 6 | 18 |
| 10 | 4 | 2 | Conceded | C | 3 | 5 | 8 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 67% | 80% | 90% |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 33% | 40% | 70% |
| 56% | 75% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 33% | 40% | 40% |
| 33% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 33% | 20% | 30% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 33% | 20% | 20% |
| 56% | 50% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 33% | 40% | 40% |
| 33% | 50% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 67% | 60% | 60% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 20% | 10% |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3.1 | 2 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 5 | 3.6 | 3.3 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 2 | 2 | 2 |
| 12.8 | 13.5 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 10.4 | 13.8 |
| 5.1 | 5.8 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2 | 2.4 | 3.6 |
| 35% | 35% | 33% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 67% | 50% | 50% |
- All of Cittadella's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Cittadella have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
- Cittadella have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Cittadella haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- SPAL has the most clean sheets (6) in Serie B
- SPAL has the most scored goals in the first half (9) in Serie B
- SPAL have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- SPAL is in the best form (6-0-0)
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Salernitana | 10 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 16 | 7 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 23 |
| 2 | SPAL | 10 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 10 | 21 |
| 3 | Lecce | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 24 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 6 | 12 | 19 |
| 4 | Frosinone | 10 | 6 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 19 |
| 5 | Empoli | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 7 | 18 |
| 6 | Venezia | 10 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 16 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 18 |
| 7 | Cittadella | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 6 | 6 | 14 |
| 8 | Chievo | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 14 |
| 9 | Monza | 10 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 0 | 14 |
| 10 | Pordenone | 9 | 2 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 12 |
| 11 | Reggiana | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 12 | 17 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -5 | 11 |
| 12 | Reggina | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 13 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 13 | Brescia | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 7 | -2 | 9 |
| 14 | Vicenza | 8 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 12 | 13 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 7 | -1 | 8 |
| 15 | Cosenza | 9 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | -2 | 8 |
| 16 | Cremonese | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -4 | 7 |
| 17 | Pisa | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 24 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 18 | -11 | 7 |
| 18 | Pescara | 10 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 8 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 12 | -11 | 7 |
| 19 | Ascoli | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 5 | -7 | 5 |
| 20 | Virtus Entella | 10 | 0 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 11 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -10 | 5 |