A home team triumph, the away team steals it or a score draw? Anything can happen when the mid-table teams SPAL and Cosenza meet at Stadio Paolo Mazza.
- SPAL haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
- Cosenza have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Serie B
Everyone involved with the away team has to get their travel gear ready for this match as there's a whopping 900 kilometers to cover before arriving at the match.
These are hustling days for the home side, as they had a game only four days ago in the Coppa Italia. That game was an away game at Genoa, so at least SPAL are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!
SPAL form and stats
2-0-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie B numbers at home for SPAL so far this season.
Stress levels are on the rise for SPAL's attacking players as they have now played 270 minutes without scoring in a league game. Esposito was their last goal scorer.
The fans hope that SPAL will fight back in this game, putting things right after the 0-1 away defeat in the Coppa Italia fixture against Genoa. Midfield player Esposito got a match rating of 7.13 in that game, the max score being 10. Esposito hit two key passes, dribled past the opponent 2 of 2 times and had 61 successful passes (of 71 total).
Preceding that game was the away draw at Cittadella that finished 0-0.SPAL's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 5 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.
Cosenza form and stats
Playing away, Cosenza have won 1 game, drawn 2 and suffered 2 defeats in the Serie B this season.
This fixture can not go any worse than the previous one, the home defeat versus Genoa with 1-2 on the scoreboard. Venturi was the top performer of the team in that game with a match score of 7.65. The defender Venturi won 10 of 13 duels.
Prior to that match, the Cosenza manager Dionigi faced defeat when travelling to Reggina and losing 0-3.Looking at the earlier recent performances of Cosenza when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 10 matches with the visitors losing 6 times, drawing 3 and winning 1 game.
The attacking power of Cosenza when travelling is not overwhelming with 3 goals scored from 5 league matches away. Cosenza have conceded 6 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
SPAL have not lost in the last 4 matches (1-3-0) against Cosenza.The games between these teams have sometimes been hostile, having seen 3 red cards from the last four encounters.
Top Goalscorers
  A. La Mantia 4 goals |  F. Maistro 2 goals |  S. Esposito 1 goals |
SPAL missing players
Cosenza missing players
| SPAL | Cosenza | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 1 | Played | P | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | 2 | 1 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 1 | 2 | 2 |
| 3 | 2 | 0 | Lost | L | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 10 | 4 | 1 | Scored | S | 1 | 3 | 9 |
| 13 | 5 | 0 | Conceded | C | 1 | 6 | 11 |
| 89% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| 78% | 75% | 0% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 67% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 0% | 20% | 44% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 0% | 11% |
| 11% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 0% |
| 44% | 25% | 0% | BTTS | BTTS | 100% | 40% | 56% |
| 33% | 50% | 100% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 20% | 11% |
| 33% | 25% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 0% | 40% | 33% |
| 4.3 | 3.8 | 2 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 1 | 3.6 | 4.1 |
| 5.4 | 4.2 | 5 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.8 | 5.3 |
| 3.1 | 3 | 4 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1 | 2.4 | 2.6 |
| 3 | 2 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 12.7 | 12.5 | 10 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 12 | 7.4 | 7.4 |
| 4.6 | 5 | 6 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 6 | 2 | 2.3 |
| 24% | 20% | 17% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 17% | 30% | 43% |
| 13.6 | 12.8 | 11 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 19 | 16.4 | 15.9 |
| 5.1 | 5.5 | 2 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 8 | 5 | 4.8 |
- Cosenza have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Serie B
- Cosenza haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- SPAL 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 | Ternana | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 16 | 11 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 10 | 5 | 19 |
| 2 | Reggina | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 17 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 12 | 18 |
| 3 | Frosinone | 9 | 6 | 0 | 3 | 14 | 6 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 18 |
| 4 | Bari 1908 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 9 | 4 | 7 | 18 |
| 5 | Genoa | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 18 |
| 6 | Parma | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 9 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 16 |
| 7 | Brescia | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 12 | -1 | 16 |
| 8 | Cagliari | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 7 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 14 |
| 9 | Sudtirol | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 7 | -2 | 14 |
| 10 | Modena | 9 | 4 | 0 | 5 | 14 | 11 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 12 |
| 11 | Ascoli | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 11 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 12 |
| 12 | Cosenza | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 9 | 11 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 6 | -2 | 11 |
| 13 | SPAL | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 13 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | 8 | -3 | 10 |
| 14 | Cittadella | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 8 | 12 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 10 |
| 15 | Benevento | 9 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 10 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 9 |
| 16 | Venezia | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 11 | 15 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 10 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | -4 | 8 |
| 17 | Palermo | 9 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 15 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | -6 | 8 |
| 18 | Pisa | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 13 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 11 | -2 | 7 |
| 19 | Como | 9 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 9 | 19 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 12 | -10 | 6 |
| 20 | Perugia | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 5 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 8 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 6 | -9 | 4 |
