Delightful dogfight as daring Crotone duel with determined Pordenone

These teams have little in common geographically as Pordenone have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.

Crotone have less rest than Pordenone in this fixture, as the hosts were involved in a Coppa Italia game only four days ago. At least it's nice to return home after that away game at Udinese.

Crotone form and stats

With 1 Serie B win, 4 draws and 4 defeats from their home games, Crotone, who have the fewest clean sheets (0) in Serie B, are certainly not brimming with confidence. It's trouble wherever Crotone are playing these days as they have suffered five straight defeats now, regardless of arena. They really need to get back to winning ways.

Crotone lost their last game at Udinese after a 0-4 scoreline. As you see from the result above, Crotone suffered greatly in their last game. Thankfully the team has a new chance to prove themselves in this one. Midfielder Schirò was the best player on the team with a rating of 7.11 (out of ten) in that game. Schirò hit one key pass and had 41 successful passes (of 46 total).

A Serie B defeat was the result before that one, 2-3 away at Cremonese.

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

Crotone has scored 9 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. With more than 1,5 conceded goals on average, the Crotone defense is not exactly impregnable. 15 goals conceded from 9 games. You can find more goal stats on the Statistics tab above.

Pordenone form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Pordenone so far with only 2 points returning home. The records show 0-2-6 (win-draw-lose).

Pordenone's last game was the home draw against Cosenza (1-1). Attacker Pellegrini got a player rating of 7.3 in the game. "Man of the match" Pellegrini hit one key pass and dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times.

It was a defeat before that one as the away game against Benevento wasn't a success with a 1-2 loss.

We have checked recent matches where Pordenone have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 14 games were four victories, three draws and seven defeats.

The visitors have scored 5 goals from 8 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. It's worth mentioning that 3 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. The Pordenone manager Tedino has some worries about the defense as 16 goals have been conceded in these travels.

Head 2 Head

Crotone-Pordenone H2H statistics last two meetings regardless of arena: Crotone one win, Pordenone one win, zero draws. zero of these two matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

S. Mulattieri 6 goals

A. Benali 2 goals

S. Canestrelli 2 goals

Crotone missing players

Pordenone missing players