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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sat 06.November
Match begins: 13:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Giovanni Zini (20034 seats)

The stage is lit for Cremonese - SPAL! Despite the season performances so far, this fixture should be cracking!

Insights:
  • All of Cremonese's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cremonese have scored at least twice as many goals at home as SPAL have scored away.

Both contenders have had adequate rest since their previous game. Let's wish for an energetic match!

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Cremonese form and stats

The Serie B results playing at home this season for Cremonese are 3-2-1 (wins-draws-losses). Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

An away draw last time out for Cremonese, facing Pordenone in a game that ended 2-2. Luca Zanimacchia, who usually features in attack, was the best player for the team in that game, collecting a rating of 8.33 (out of 10). Zanimacchia scored one goal, served one assist, hit two key passes and had 17 successful passes (of 21 total).

In the match before that, Cremonese hosted Pisa and drew the game 1-1.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Cremonese handle that role? We have found 20 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are eight wins, five draws and seven defeats.

Cremonese have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Giovanni Zini with 9 goals in 6 league matches. Cremonese have only conceded 5 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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SPAL form and stats

1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of SPAL playing as the away team in the Serie B this season.

This game can not go any worse than the last one, a Serie B home defeat versus Perugia with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Midfielder Salvatore Esposito was the best performer of that match, with a rating of 7.72. Esposito hit three key passes and had 53 successful passes (of 62 total).

Ahead of that match was the victory versus Ascoli at their stadium, the result 1-0.

SPAL 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, four draws and four defeats. From a total of ten matches.

Goals are few and far between in SPAL's away league games. Only 2 goals from 5 travels. SPAL are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 4 times in 5 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last three meetings: one - one - one (Cremonese wins - draws - SPAL wins). As for goals, one match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

SPALL. Colombo
L. Colombo
5 goals
SPALF. Viviani
F. Viviani
3 goals
CremoneseC. Buonaiuto
C. Buonaiuto
2 goals

Cremonese missing players

SPAL missing players

Cremonese SPAL
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
11 6 1 Played P 2 5 11
5 3 1 Won W 1 1 3
3 2 0 Drew D 1 1 4
3 1 0 Lost L 0 3 4
14 9 2 Scored S 1 2 15
10 5 0 Conceded C 0 4 12
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 80% 91%
73% 100% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 20% 64%
36% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 45%
9% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 27%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 18%
36% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 20% 55%
36% 50% 100% Clean Sheets C S 100% 40% 27%
27% 17% 0% Failed to Score F T 50% 60% 27%
 
4.3 4.8 4 Corners for (avg) C F 4 4.2 5.7
5.6 6.8 10 Corners against (avg) C A 4.5 5.4 5.5
2.1 2.2 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 3 2.6
1 1 0 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
12.3 11.3 9 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 13.6 18.7
3.5 3 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.5 3.8 6.3
36% 50% 100% Goal Efficiency G E 20% 11% 22%
 
12.6 13.7 18 Shots against (avg) S A 12.5 12.2 12.6
4.1 5.5 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.5 4.6 4.3
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • All of Cremonese's home-matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Cremonese have scored at least twice as many goals at home as SPAL have scored away.
  • Cremonese haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • SPAL have won significantly less corners away then at 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 Pisa 11 6 4 1 19 9 6 4 2 0 9 3 5 2 2 1 10 6 10 22
2 Brescia 11 6 3 2 22 14 5 2 2 1 11 8 6 4 1 1 11 6 8 21
3 Lecce 11 5 5 1 17 10 5 3 2 0 10 4 6 2 3 1 7 6 7 20
4 Benevento 11 5 4 2 17 8 6 3 2 1 11 5 5 2 2 1 6 3 9 19
5 Reggina 11 5 4 2 12 9 6 3 2 1 7 5 5 2 2 1 5 4 3 19
6 Frosinone 11 4 6 1 14 9 6 2 3 1 8 7 5 2 3 0 6 2 5 18
7 Cremonese 11 5 3 3 14 10 6 3 2 1 9 5 5 2 1 2 5 5 4 18
8 Perugia 11 4 5 2 11 8 5 1 2 2 5 7 6 3 3 0 6 1 3 17
9 Monza 11 4 5 2 10 9 5 4 1 0 7 2 6 0 4 2 3 7 1 17
10 Parma 11 4 4 3 16 13 5 2 2 1 4 3 6 2 2 2 12 10 3 16
11 Como 11 4 4 3 14 13 5 2 1 2 4 4 6 2 3 1 10 9 1 16
12 Cittadella 11 5 1 5 11 13 6 3 1 2 8 6 5 2 0 3 3 7 -2 16
13 Ascoli 11 4 3 4 15 15 5 1 1 3 4 7 6 3 2 1 11 8 0 15
14 Cosenza 11 4 2 5 12 17 5 4 1 0 9 3 6 0 1 5 3 14 -5 14
15 SPAL 11 3 4 4 15 12 6 2 3 1 13 8 5 1 1 3 2 4 3 13
16 Ternana 11 4 1 6 18 19 6 3 0 3 11 9 5 1 1 3 7 10 -1 13
17 Alessandria 11 2 2 7 11 20 5 2 1 2 5 7 6 0 1 5 6 13 -9 8
18 Crotone 11 1 4 6 12 21 6 1 3 2 7 11 5 0 1 4 5 10 -9 7
19 Vicenza 11 1 1 9 9 22 5 0 1 4 2 8 6 1 0 5 7 14 -13 4
20 Pordenone 11 0 3 8 8 26 6 0 2 4 6 15 5 0 1 4 2 11 -18 3

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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.