These two teams are delivering a fine season so far and matches like today could be influential. Here's the preview for Modena - Palermo!
- Modena have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Palermo is in the best form (5-0-1) in Serie B
These teams have little in common geographically as Palermo have to travel 1200 kilometers to reach their opponents. The trip home will be especially long if the match ends in defeat.
This could be an absorbing game with lots of fun and bustle as both squads are well revitalized since they last saw competitive action. Let's go!
Modena form and stats
2 victories, 1 draw and 1 defeat. That’s what Modena have to build on here at Stadio Alberto Braglia in the Serie B.
Modena's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 1-3 versus Venezia (placed 3rd). Before that loss this club had gone six consecutive league fixtures without being beaten. Midfield player Palumbo got a match rating of 7.24 in that game, the max score being 10. Palumbo served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 2 times and had 35 successful passes (of 43 total).
0-0 away at Südtirol before that.The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Modena have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 11 matches with the results: Won 3, drawn 4 and lost 4.
Modena are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadio Alberto Braglia in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.
Palermo form and stats
The story so far for the visiting team, who have the most points (10) away in Serie B, on their Serie B travels is 3 wins, 1 draw and 0 defeats.
Palermo go into this game after a win, the home game against Südtirol that ended 2-1. World class coaching! That was the thoughts of manager Corini when Aurelio scored the winning goal after coming on as a substitute in the 59th minute. Ceccaroni, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.84. Ceccaroni scored one goal, hit one key pass and won 4 of 6 duels.
Preceding that game was the away victory against Venezia with the score of 3-1.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Palermo in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Palermo, 5 draws and 3 defeats.
Palermo has displayed an ability to score goals in away matches in the league this season, 7 goals from 4 games. They concede less than a goal on average per away game (2 so far).
Head 2 Head
Modena-Palermo H2H statistics last five meetings regardless of arena: Modena one win, Palermo two wins, two draws. two of these five matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).
Top Goalscorers
  L. Strizzolo 3 goals |   M. Brunori Sandri 3 goals |  N. Bonfanti 1 goals |
Modena missing players
Palermo missing players
| Modena | Palermo | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Won | W | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | Lost | L | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 7 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 3 | 7 | 12 |
| 5 | 3 | 3 | Conceded | C | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 71% | 75% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 75% | 86% |
| 57% | 50% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 50% | 57% |
| 29% | 25% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 57% |
| 14% | 25% | 100% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 100% | 50% | 29% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 43% | 25% | 100% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 50% | 43% |
| 57% | 75% | 0% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 50% | 43% |
| 29% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 25% | 29% |
| 6.3 | 7.8 | 7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 4.8 | 5.9 |
| 4.9 | 4.8 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 8 | 6.5 | 5 |
| 2.3 | 2 | 2 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2 | 2.1 |
| 0 | 0 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 15.7 | 14.5 | 14 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 7 | 12.8 | 15.9 |
| 4.1 | 4 | 4 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 4 | 5 | 5.4 |
| 24% | 25% | 25% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 75% | 35% | 32% |
| 9.4 | 9.2 | 9 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 17 | 14.5 | 12.7 |
| 2.7 | 3.8 | 4 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 1 | 1.8 | 1.9 |
- Modena have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Palermo have not yet lost a game away.
- Palermo have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Palermo have the most points (10) away in Serie B
- Palermo have won significantly less corners away then at home.
- Palermo is in the best form (5-0-1) in Serie B
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Parma | 8 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 16 | 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 12 | 20 |
| 2 | Palermo | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 12 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| 3 | Venezia | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 5 | 15 |
| 4 | Catanzaro | 8 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 14 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
| 5 | Como | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 7 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 14 |
| 6 | Modena | 7 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 12 |
| 7 | Cittadella | 8 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 5 | -2 | 12 |
| 8 | Cosenza | 8 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 11 |
| 9 | Südtirol | 7 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 12 | 9 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 10 | Cremonese | 8 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 10 |
| 11 | Brescia | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 9 |
| 12 | Bari 1908 | 8 | 1 | 6 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 9 |
| 13 | Pisa | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -1 | 8 |
| 14 | Ascoli | 8 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 10 | -2 | 8 |
| 15 | Reggiana | 8 | 1 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 12 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 7 | -5 | 7 |
| 16 | Ternana | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 6 | -3 | 5 |
| 17 | Spezia | 7 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 8 | -5 | 5 |
| 18 | FeralpiSalo | 8 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 9 | -11 | 4 |
| 19 | Sampdoria | 8 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 12 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 4 | -5 | 3 |
| 20 | Lecco | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 | 10 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -5 | 1 |
