Can Frosinone beat Benevento in Stadio Benito Stirpe clash?

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Fri 24.July
Match begins: 19:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Benito Stirpe (16125 seats)

A key match in Serie B as both teams are battling for the top positions. With Frosinone in 5th position and Benevento placed 1st, this promises to be an exciting meeting. Read on to find out more!

Frosinone and Benevento should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

Happy, happy days for Benevento who are already winners of the Serie B. This could affect their motivation.

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Frosinone form and stats

The home supporters can't complain about results here at Stadio Benito Stirpe as Frosinone have scored 26 goals to get 34 points from 17 games. The overall stats in the Serie B are 10-4-3 (wins-draws-losses).

Frosinone drew their last game, 1-1 away at Pescara (placed 15th). Preceding that game was the home draw versus Juve Stabia that ended 2-2.

Frosinone's goalie Francesco Bardi played a big part in securing a draw after 90 minutes against Pescara with a stunning seven saves. The hometeam coach A. Nesta made a successful contribution in the game against Pescara, bringing on Andrija Novakovich who scored the equalizer in the 1-1 draw.

This is expected to be a close game, with Frosinone perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Frosinone as a small favourite), we find three games. Frosinone has won two of these, drawn zero and lost one.

The manager A. Nesta will start preparations for the next game as soon this is finished, as the hosts are going to Crotone in only two days.

Frosinone have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at Stadio Benito Stirpe with 26 goals in 17 league matches. Frosinone have only conceded 14 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Benevento form and stats

The away team, who have the most scored goals (60) in Serie B, have been very comfortable on their travels so far, racking up 10 wins, 4 draws and only 3 losses in the Serie B. With two straight losses from their last two away games, Benevento are hoping that it's time for some travel points again.

Prior to that match, the Benevento manager F. Inzaghi faced defeat when travelling to Trapani and losing 0-2.

Goalkeeper Lorenzo Montipò was absolutely vital in the Benevento victory against Livorno, making seven saves.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found seven similar matches played by Benevento in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Benevento, one draw and three defeats.

After this away game Benevento return home for a Serie B game against Chievo. That game is only two sleeps after this.

Benevento find the net regularly in their away games. 21 goals from 17 away fixtures in the league. Benevento are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 14 times in 17 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Benevento - Frosinone 1-0. As for the last eight games between these two teams, there's two Frosinone victories, four draws and two Benevento wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

BeneventoM. Sau
M. Sau
12 goals
FrosinoneF. Dionisi
F. Dionisi
10 goals
BeneventoB. Viola
B. Viola
9 goals

Frosinone missing players

Benevento missing players

Frosinone Benevento
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
35 17 4 Played P 4 17 35
14 10 1 Won W 2 10 24
11 4 1 Drew D 1 4 8
10 3 2 Lost L 1 3 3
38 26 5 Scored S 4 21 60
33 14 7 Conceded C 5 14 22
91% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 88% 94%
69% 76% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 75% 71% 74%
29% 41% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 50% 35% 37%
14% 18% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 12% 23%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 6%
34% 41% 75% BTTS BTTS 50% 29% 37%
43% 47% 0% Clean Sheets C S 25% 53% 54%
31% 12% 25% Failed to Score F T 25% 29% 14%
 
5.4 6.1 4.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5 4.7 4.7
4.3 4.1 4 Corners against (avg) C A 3.8 4.8 4.5
2.5 2.5 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.3 2.2
6 4 0 Red cards R C 1 3 6
 
452 230 50 Total Shots T S 41 201 499
137 79 15 Shots on Target S O 13 64 163
28% 33% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 31% 33% 37%
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Benevento has the fewest conceded goals (14) away
  • Benevento has the fewest conceded goals (22)
  • Benevento has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (8)
  • Benevento has the most clean sheets (19)
  • Benevento has the most clean sheets (9) away
  • Benevento has the most points (34) away
  • Benevento has the most scored goals (60)
  • Benevento has the the best goal difference (+38)
  • Benevento has the the best goal difference (+7) away
  • Benevento have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Frosinone have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Frosinone haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Benevento 35 24 8 3 60 22 18 14 4 0 39 8 17 10 4 3 21 14 38 80
2 Crotone 35 18 8 9 57 37 18 11 5 2 32 14 17 7 3 7 25 23 20 62
3 Spezia 35 16 8 11 52 39 18 10 3 5 30 18 17 6 5 6 22 21 13 56
4 Pordenone 35 16 7 12 43 41 18 11 4 3 24 11 17 5 3 9 19 30 2 55
5 Frosinone 35 14 11 10 38 33 17 10 4 3 26 14 18 4 7 7 12 19 5 53
6 Cittadella 35 15 7 13 44 43 18 6 4 8 22 26 17 9 3 5 22 17 1 52
7 Salernitana 35 14 9 12 49 43 17 10 6 1 32 17 18 4 3 11 17 26 6 51
8 Pisa 35 13 11 11 46 42 18 9 5 4 27 20 17 4 6 7 19 22 4 50
9 Empoli 35 12 12 11 40 41 18 7 8 3 25 18 17 5 4 8 15 23 -1 48
10 Chievo 35 11 14 10 42 37 17 8 4 5 24 17 18 3 10 5 18 20 5 47
11 Virtus Entella 35 12 11 12 44 45 17 8 6 3 19 13 18 4 5 9 25 32 -1 47
12 Ascoli 35 13 6 16 46 51 17 9 4 4 25 18 18 4 2 12 21 33 -5 45
13 Cremonese 35 11 11 13 38 40 17 7 4 6 20 17 18 4 7 7 18 23 -2 44
14 Venezia 35 10 14 11 33 38 17 3 6 8 14 23 18 7 8 3 19 15 -5 44
15 Pescara 35 11 9 15 47 53 18 6 8 4 30 23 17 5 1 11 17 30 -6 42
16 Perugia 35 11 9 15 34 44 18 7 5 6 18 17 17 4 4 9 16 27 -10 42
17 Juve Stabia 35 11 8 16 45 57 18 9 3 6 29 27 17 2 5 10 16 30 -12 41
18 Cosenza 35 9 10 16 40 46 17 4 5 8 16 20 18 5 5 8 24 26 -6 37
19 Trapani 35 8 13 14 43 59 17 6 6 5 24 20 18 2 7 9 19 39 -16 36
20 Livorno 35 5 6 24 29 59 17 3 2 12 18 35 18 2 4 12 11 24 -30 21

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.