Home advantage could prove decisive in Spezia - Cosenza battle

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sat 28.Oct
Match begins: 12:00 (UTC)
Venue: Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi (20194 seats)

A cursory peek at the Serie B standings indicate an upper hand to Cosenza when they come to Spezia. Even so; let's play the game before select a winner!

Insights:
  • Spezia have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Serie B
  • Cosenza have scored at least twice as many goals away as Spezia have scored home.

It's quite the trip for Cosenza when visiting Spezia as the cities are 900 kilometers apart.

There should be plenty of energy on the pitch in this game, as both sides have had time to recuperate from their last game. Let's hope both teams are ready to give it all.

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Spezia form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie B, Spezia, who have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Serie B, have managed 0 wins, 2 draws and suffered 2 defeats from 4 games. Their last two home games have resulted in two points, meaning they were both draws.

Spezia travelled for their previous game, a trip to Palermo that ended 2-2. Opportunity lost for Spezia in the Palermo match as a lead 2-0 was lost and what looked like a victory ended in a draw. Esposito was able to secure the draw 2-2 in the game against Palermo after coming on as a substitute and scoring the final goal. In the starting lineup today? The forward Żurkowski bettered all teammates in that match and was awarded a match rating of 7.83 out of 10. Żurkowski served one assist, hit three key passes and had 18 successful passes (of 21 total).

Preceding that game was the home draw versus Pisa that ended 0-0.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Spezia handle that role? We have found 5 games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are 2 wins, 2 draws and 1 defeat.

Spezia have scored {1 goals} here in 4 league matches, a depressing statistic. Spezia are not conceding a lot of goals here at Orogel Stadium-Dino Manuzzi in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 3 from 4 matches.

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Cosenza form and stats

The visitors are W2-D1-L2 on the road this term. That's in the Serie B.

Two away games in a row for Cosenza, who will hope to get a better result in this one after losing 0-2 versus Sampdoria. Calò got a match rating of 8.1 in that game, top player of the team. Calò hit two key passes.

A home win before that, celebrating 3-0 vs Lecco.

We have checked recent matches where Cosenza have had similar odds to win. Win-draw-lose statistics from those 15 games were 1 victory, 6 draws and 8 defeats.

The visitors have scored 4 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game.

Head 2 Head

As for the last four games between these two teams, there's two Spezia victories, one draw and one Cosenza win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less. The matches between these clubs have sometimes been hot-tempered, having seen 3 sending-offs from the last four encounters.

Top Goalscorers

CosenzaS. Mazzocchi
S. Mazzocchi
3 goals
SpeziaA. Reca
A. Reca
2 goals
SpeziaL. Moro
L. Moro
2 goals

Spezia missing players

Cosenza missing players

Spezia Cosenza
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
9 4 1 Played P 1 5 10
1 0 0 Won W 0 2 4
4 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
4 2 1 Lost L 1 2 4
8 1 0 Scored S 0 4 14
13 3 1 Conceded C 2 5 11
78% 50% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
56% 25% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 60% 80%
56% 25% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 60%
22% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
11% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
44% 25% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 40% 50%
22% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 20% 30%
56% 75% 100% Failed to Score F T 100% 40% 20%
 
5.2 6.5 6 Corners for (avg) C F 4 3.6 4.4
4 4.8 6 Corners against (avg) C A 4 4.6 3.8
3.7 3 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 3.4 3.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
14.1 14 9 Shots (avg) S ( 14 11.8 13.6
4.6 4 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5 3.2 4.1
20% 6% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 0% 25% 34%
 
11 11 12 Shots against (avg) S A 17 14.4 12.6
4.1 3.8 5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5 4.4 3.9
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Cosenza have scored at least twice as many goals away as Spezia have scored home.
  • Cosenza have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Cosenza haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Spezia have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored at home.
  • Spezia have the fewest scored goals (1) at home in Serie B
  • Spezia have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Spezia have yet to win a 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 Parma 10 7 2 1 20 8 6 4 2 0 9 3 4 3 0 1 11 5 12 23
2 Catanzaro 10 6 3 1 18 13 5 3 1 1 9 7 5 3 2 0 9 6 5 21
3 Palermo 9 6 2 1 16 6 4 2 1 1 7 4 5 4 1 0 9 2 10 20
4 Venezia 10 5 3 2 14 9 5 3 1 1 9 6 5 2 2 1 5 3 5 18
5 Cosenza 10 4 2 4 14 11 5 2 1 2 10 6 5 2 1 2 4 5 3 14
6 Como 9 4 2 3 12 12 4 2 1 1 6 6 5 2 1 2 6 6 0 14
7 Brescia 7 3 4 0 6 2 4 1 3 0 3 2 3 2 1 0 3 0 4 13
8 Sudtirol 9 3 4 2 13 10 4 1 2 1 6 5 5 2 2 1 7 5 3 13
9 Cremonese 10 3 4 3 12 11 6 0 3 3 4 7 4 3 1 0 8 4 1 13
10 Modena 9 3 4 2 8 8 5 2 1 2 4 5 4 1 3 0 4 3 0 13
11 Cittadella 10 3 4 3 10 13 5 2 2 1 5 6 5 1 2 2 5 7 -3 13
12 Ascoli 10 3 3 4 12 12 4 2 1 1 6 2 6 1 2 3 6 10 0 12
13 Pisa 9 3 3 3 8 8 4 1 1 2 5 6 5 2 2 1 3 2 0 12
14 Bari 1908 10 1 8 1 9 9 5 0 5 0 5 5 5 1 3 1 4 4 0 11
15 Reggiana 10 2 5 3 9 13 5 1 3 1 5 6 5 1 2 2 4 7 -4 11
16 Sampdoria 10 2 3 5 10 13 5 1 0 4 5 8 5 1 3 1 5 5 -3 7
17 Spezia 9 1 4 4 8 13 4 0 2 2 1 3 5 1 2 2 7 10 -5 7
18 Ternana 10 1 3 6 9 13 6 1 2 3 5 5 4 0 1 3 4 8 -4 6
19 FeralpiSalo 10 1 2 7 5 19 4 0 1 3 2 6 6 1 1 4 3 13 -14 5
20 Lecco 7 0 1 6 5 15 4 0 0 4 4 10 3 0 1 2 1 5 -10 1

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.