Football betting preview: Cosenza vs Venezia

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Tue 22.December
Match begins: 18:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio San Vito-Luigi Marulla (24209 seats)

The visiting Venezia side should be favourites in this visit to Cosenza, as the away team holds a 10 point advantage from their 13 league games this season.

Insights:
  • Cosenza has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Serie B
  • Venezia have scored at least twice as many goals away as Cosenza have scored home.

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.

It's quite the trip for Venezia when visiting Cosenza as the cities are 1000 kilometers apart.

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Cosenza form and stats

With 0 Serie B wins, 3 draws and 3 defeats from their home games, Cosenza are certainly not brimming with confidence. Three consecutive losses here at Stadio San Vito-Luigi Marulla is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

In their previous game, the manager R. Occhiuzzi led his Cosenza to a defeat in the Serie B match away at Cremonese. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadio San Vito-Luigi Marulla. In the preceding match a 3-0 victory visiting Ascoli.

Cosenza have scored 3 goals here in 6 league matches, a depressing statistic. 6 goals have been conceded.

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Venezia form and stats

Playing away, Venezia have won 2 games, drawn 3 and suffered 1 defeat in the Serie B this season.

Venezia played 0-0 against SPAL in their previous match. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Reggina at their stadium, the result 2-1.

The travelling fans enjoy Venezia's attacking play in away games, having scored 9 goals in 6 league matches away. Venezia have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

As for the last four games between these two teams, there's one Cosenza victory, three draws and zero Venezia wins. Over/under statistics; zero of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

VeneziaF. Forte
F. Forte
7 goals
VeneziaM. Aramu
M. Aramu
4 goals
CosenzaM. Carretta
M. Carretta
3 goals

Cosenza missing players

Venezia missing players

Cosenza Venezia
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
13 6 2 Played P 4 6 13
2 0 0 Won W 2 2 6
6 3 1 Drew D 1 3 4
5 3 1 Lost L 1 1 3
10 3 1 Scored S 5 9 18
11 6 2 Conceded C 3 7 12
85% 83% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 83% 85%
62% 50% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 83% 77%
15% 17% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 67% 46%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 33% 23%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
38% 50% 50% BTTS BTTS 50% 67% 38%
31% 17% 0% Clean Sheets C S 50% 33% 46%
46% 50% 50% Failed to Score F T 25% 17% 31%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
3.1 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 2.3 2.7
3 2 1 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
12.2 13.7 15 Shots (avg) S ( 15.8 14.3 12.9
3.4 2.8 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.2 5 4.8
23% 18% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 24% 30% 29%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Cosenza has the fewest dropped points from leading position (0) in Serie B
  • Cosenza have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cosenza have yet to win a game at home.
  • Venezia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Venezia have scored at least twice as many goals away as Cosenza have scored 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 Empoli 13 7 5 1 23 12 6 4 2 0 11 4 7 3 3 1 12 8 11 26
2 Salernitana 13 7 4 2 18 11 7 5 2 0 13 4 6 2 2 2 5 7 7 25
3 Frosinone 13 7 3 3 15 12 7 3 2 2 5 6 6 4 1 1 10 6 3 24
4 Cittadella 12 7 2 3 24 11 6 4 1 1 13 4 6 3 1 2 11 7 13 23
5 SPAL 13 6 5 2 18 10 6 4 2 0 12 3 7 2 3 2 6 7 8 23
6 Venezia 13 6 4 3 18 12 7 4 1 2 9 5 6 2 3 1 9 7 6 22
7 Lecce 13 5 6 2 27 18 7 2 4 1 16 11 6 3 2 1 11 7 9 21
8 Monza 13 5 5 3 18 12 6 3 2 1 10 3 7 2 3 2 8 9 6 20
9 Chievo 12 5 4 3 15 10 6 3 1 2 9 5 6 2 3 1 6 5 5 19
10 Brescia 13 4 5 4 21 19 7 3 3 1 15 9 6 1 2 3 6 10 2 17
11 Pordenone 13 3 8 2 13 12 6 0 6 0 8 8 7 3 2 2 5 4 1 17
12 Pisa 13 4 5 4 19 25 6 2 3 1 6 7 7 2 2 3 13 18 -6 17
13 Vicenza 12 3 6 3 18 20 5 1 4 0 9 8 7 2 2 3 9 12 -2 15
14 Reggiana 12 4 2 6 15 22 6 2 2 2 9 7 6 2 0 4 6 15 -7 14
15 Cosenza 13 2 6 5 10 11 6 0 3 3 3 6 7 2 3 2 7 5 -1 12
16 Cremonese 13 2 6 5 13 17 7 2 3 2 8 9 6 0 3 3 5 8 -4 12
17 Pescara 13 3 2 8 13 24 7 2 1 4 9 12 6 1 1 4 4 12 -11 11
18 Reggina 13 2 4 7 12 21 7 2 1 4 8 10 6 0 3 3 4 11 -9 10
19 Ascoli 13 1 3 9 10 22 6 1 1 4 3 10 7 0 2 5 7 12 -12 6
20 Virtus Entella 13 0 5 8 8 27 7 0 1 6 4 17 6 0 4 2 4 10 -19 5

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.