Perugia scrimmages with Frosinone battle

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sat 01.April
Match begins: 14:15 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Renato Curi (28000 seats)

Preview: 29 points stand between the participants until now, Frosinone the sharpest side. Will Perugia shorten the gap?

Insights:
  • Perugia have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the most scored goals (48) in Serie B

This looks to be an engaging match with lots of spark and energy as both sides are well renewed since they last ran out on the pitch. Let's go!

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Perugia form and stats

Perugia have played 13 Serie B games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 5-4-4 (wins-draws-losses).

It's back home for Perugia, who return with a good feeling about themselves after beating Cittadella away with the result 2-0. Carmine and Casasola found the net in that victory. At last, a league victory after three fixtures without one. Perugia goalkeeper Gori did an outstanding job against Cittadella with six saves, so vital to securing the victory. Goalkeeper Gori got the top rating on the team in that game; 8.14 out of ten. Gori topped it up with a clean sheet.

Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Südtirol (1-2).

Some members of the home team might already be thinking of their next match, the Serie B game versus Reggina in only four days. This game is also played here at Stadio Renato Curi.

Perugia has scored 17 league goals at home this season, in 13 matches. On the other hand, Perugia have conceded 14 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches. When Perugia hosts teams that live on the top of the table (like Cittadella, Brescia, SPAL, Venezia, Benevento and Cosenza), the matches have ended over 2.5 goals 3 of 4 times.

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Frosinone form and stats

The visitors are W8-D3-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Serie B.

The attacking players of Frosinone have been feeble for some time now, the team not scoring a league goal in the last 220 minutes.

Frosinone have lots to to correct after their surprise loss (0-1) to Cosenza in their previous game, played at their own home ground. That loss was their first after three consecutive league fixtures winning points. Frosinone were so close to getting something from the game against Cosenza, but ended up with egg all over their face after conceding the deciding goal five minutes into overtime. Kalaj, who plays in defense, got the "man of the match" on his team with the rating 7.3. Kalaj won 8 of 11 duels.

Before that, Frosinone travelled to Bari 1908 and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

Frosinone are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 21 away goals from 15 games (in the league). Frosinone are defending well in their away games, having conceded only 11 times in 15 matches. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

The two teams involved encountered each other earlier this season: Frosinone - Perugia 1-0. H2H stats regardless of arena (last ten matches): Perugia five wins, two draws and Frosinone three victories. As for goals, five matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), five games had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

FrosinoneS. Mulattieri
S. Mulattieri
10 goals
FrosinoneG. Caso
G. Caso
7 goals
FrosinoneR. Insigne
R. Insigne
7 goals

Perugia missing players

Frosinone missing players

Perugia Frosinone
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
29 13 4 Played P 6 15 30
9 5 1 Won W 4 8 19
6 4 0 Drew D 0 3 5
14 4 3 Lost L 2 4 6
32 17 4 Scored S 11 21 48
34 14 8 Conceded C 6 11 19
86% 77% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 93% 93%
66% 62% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 83% 67% 63%
41% 54% 75% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 40% 43%
21% 31% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 13% 13%
10% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 3%
38% 38% 75% BTTS BTTS 67% 47% 33%
38% 54% 25% Clean Sheets C S 17% 40% 57%
38% 31% 0% Failed to Score F T 17% 20% 17%
 
5.5 6.5 7.5 Corners for (avg) C F 5.2 5 4.8
5 4.5 4 Corners against (avg) C A 5.2 4.7 4
2.8 2.8 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.5 2.9 2.7
6 2 1 Red cards R C 0 0 0
 
13.3 14.1 14.5 Shots (avg) S ( 14.3 14.5 15.1
4.2 5.3 4.2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.2 4.4 5
26% 25% 24% Goal Efficiency G E 35% 32% 32%
 
13.6 11.5 13 Shots against (avg) S A 9.5 10.6 10.2
4.7 4.2 5.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 2.9 2.6
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Frosinone have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Frosinone have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (7) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the fewest dropped points from leading position (2) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the most clean sheets (17) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the most scored goals (48) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the most scored goals in the second half (31) in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the the best goal difference (+10) away in Serie B
  • Frosinone have the the best goal difference (+29) in Serie B
  • Perugia have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Perugia have the fewest points from losing position (0) 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 Frosinone 30 19 5 6 48 19 15 11 2 2 27 8 15 8 3 4 21 11 29 62
2 Genoa 30 16 9 5 39 19 15 8 6 1 20 6 15 8 3 4 19 13 20 56
3 Südtirol 30 13 12 5 34 28 16 6 8 2 20 16 14 7 4 3 14 12 6 51
4 Bari 1908 30 13 11 6 45 28 15 5 7 3 24 16 15 8 4 3 21 12 17 50
5 Pisa 30 11 12 7 42 29 15 7 4 4 24 14 15 4 8 3 18 15 13 45
6 Cagliari 30 11 12 7 38 29 15 9 4 2 23 14 15 2 8 5 15 15 9 45
7 Reggina 29 13 3 13 39 35 15 7 2 6 23 19 14 6 1 7 16 16 4 42
8 Palermo 30 10 12 8 38 37 15 7 5 3 20 13 15 3 7 5 18 24 1 42
9 Parma 30 11 8 11 35 33 15 7 2 6 18 13 15 4 6 5 17 20 2 41
10 Como 30 9 12 9 35 36 15 7 4 4 21 15 15 2 8 5 14 21 -1 39
11 Ternana 30 10 9 11 29 36 15 7 5 3 16 12 15 3 4 8 13 24 -7 39
12 Modena 30 11 5 14 41 43 14 6 4 4 22 15 16 5 1 10 19 28 -2 38
13 Ascoli 30 9 9 12 30 36 15 3 5 7 12 17 15 6 4 5 18 19 -6 36
14 Cittadella 30 8 11 11 28 39 15 4 7 4 16 19 15 4 4 7 12 20 -11 35
15 Perugia 29 9 6 14 32 34 13 5 4 4 17 14 16 4 2 10 15 20 -2 33
16 Venezia 30 8 9 13 31 39 15 3 5 7 15 21 15 5 4 6 16 18 -8 33
17 Cosenza 30 8 8 14 25 47 15 6 5 4 17 15 15 2 3 10 8 32 -22 32
18 Benevento 30 6 11 13 23 33 15 3 4 8 10 18 15 3 7 5 13 15 -10 29
19 SPAL 30 6 10 14 31 42 15 4 4 7 21 22 15 2 6 7 10 20 -11 28
20 Brescia 30 6 10 14 23 44 16 4 5 7 13 20 14 2 5 7 10 24 -21 28

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.