Soccer betting preview: Vicenza welcomes Alessandria in what could be a tight duel

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Competition: Italy Serie B
Competition: Sun 30.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Romeo Menti (12200 seats)

Vicenza are yearning to improve their points total at their own ground in this fixture vs Alessandria.

Insights:
  • Vicenza have the fewest points from losing position (-17) in Serie B
  • Alessandria have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Only a few days to rest for the team playing at home, as they had a Serie B game only four days ago. That game was an away game at Lecce, so at least Vicenza are thankful to return home in this one. Game on!

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Vicenza form and stats

Vicenza's struggle is real here at Stadio Romeo Menti with only 2 points collected from 9 Serie B games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 0-2-7. Vicenza are slowly digging their own grave here at Stadio Romeo Menti with the depressing streak of not having won a home league game in eleven attempts. The last victory here came in the Cagliari match.

The fans are hoping that Vicenza will strike back in this fixture, putting things right after the 1-2 away loss in the match against Lecce (placed 1st). Meggiorini, who plays in attack, was the best player for the team in that game, scoring a rating of 7.64 (out of 10). Meggiorini scored one goal.

In the match before that, Vicenza hosted Cittadella and drew the game 3-3.

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

At Stadio Romeo Menti, Vicenza has the goal stats of 9-18 (for/against) from 9 league fixtures.

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Alessandria form and stats

The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Alessandria so far with only 7 points returning home. The records show 2-1-6 (win-draw-lose). When Alessandria is visiting a side on the bottom half, they have won 2 of 3 matches. SPAL, Alessandria, Reggina, Cosenza, Crotone and Pordenone is teams we like to compare Vicenza with.

Impressive finishing from Casarini and Lunetta secured the home win 2-0 against Benevento in their previous game. Lunetta got a match rating of 8.03 in that game, top player of the team. Lunetta scored one goal and hit two key passes.

Preceding that, the 0-2 home loss versus Parma.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 14 similar matches played by Alessandria in our archives, and the results are: five wins for Alessandria, two draws and seven defeats.

The visiting Alessandria have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 13 goals from 9 games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Alessandria have conceded 17 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above. When Alessandria is visiting a side on the bottom half, 2 of 3 matches have ended with three or more goals. These are matches against SPAL, Alessandria, Reggina, Cosenza, Crotone and Pordenone.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

AlessandriaS. Corazza
S. Corazza
8 goals
VicenzaF. Proia
F. Proia
4 goals
VicenzaR. Meggiorini
R. Meggiorini
4 goals

Vicenza missing players

Alessandria missing players

Vicenza Alessandria
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
19 9 1 Played P 3 9 19
2 0 0 Won W 2 2 6
2 2 0 Drew D 0 1 2
15 7 1 Lost L 1 6 11
19 9 0 Scored S 7 13 21
37 18 1 Conceded C 4 17 29
100% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 100%
63% 67% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 89% 74%
53% 44% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 44% 32%
37% 44% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 44% 32%
32% 33% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 33% 16%
53% 56% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 44% 37%
5% 0% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 11% 26%
42% 44% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 44% 37%
 
4.8 6 5 Corners for (avg) C F 6.7 4.1 5.7
5.1 4.9 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4.3 4.8
3.4 3.7 4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3 2.8 2.6
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 1
 
13.7 14.8 14 Shots (avg) S ( 12.7 9.8 12
4.6 4.6 4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6.3 4.1 4.4
22% 22% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 37% 35% 25%
 
13.8 13.1 10 Shots against (avg) S A 11.3 13.8 12.6
4.6 4.2 2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3 4.1 4.2
Key stats in Serie B this season:
  • Alessandria have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • Alessandria have won significantly less corners away then at home.
  • Alessandria haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
  • Vicenza have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their home matches.
  • Vicenza have the fewest points (2) at home in Serie B
  • Vicenza have the fewest points from losing position (-17) in Serie B
  • Vicenza have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Vicenza have yet to win a game at home.
  • Vicenza haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Lecce 20 11 7 2 34 17 10 7 3 0 23 9 10 4 4 2 11 8 17 40
2 Pisa 20 11 6 3 27 15 10 6 3 1 13 7 10 5 3 2 14 8 12 39
3 Brescia 20 11 5 4 33 21 10 3 4 3 14 13 10 8 1 1 19 8 12 38
4 Benevento 20 10 5 5 33 20 10 6 2 2 21 11 10 4 3 3 12 9 13 35
5 Cremonese 20 10 5 5 30 19 10 5 4 1 16 9 10 5 1 4 14 10 11 35
6 Monza 20 9 8 3 28 21 10 8 2 0 20 9 10 1 6 3 8 12 7 35
7 Frosinone 20 8 10 2 32 18 10 3 6 1 15 10 10 5 4 1 17 8 14 34
8 Ascoli 20 9 5 6 29 27 9 2 3 4 8 13 11 7 2 2 21 14 2 32
9 Cittadella 19 8 6 5 24 21 9 5 2 2 14 8 10 3 4 3 10 13 3 30
10 Perugia 20 6 10 4 21 19 10 3 4 3 10 10 10 3 6 1 11 9 2 28
11 Como 20 6 8 6 26 25 10 3 4 3 11 9 10 3 4 3 15 16 1 26
12 Ternana 20 6 6 8 30 32 10 4 1 5 15 16 10 2 5 3 15 16 -2 24
13 Parma 19 5 8 6 21 22 9 2 4 3 6 7 10 3 4 3 15 15 -1 23
14 Reggina 20 6 5 9 16 27 10 3 2 5 9 15 10 3 3 4 7 12 -11 23
15 SPAL 20 5 7 8 23 27 11 2 5 4 17 17 9 3 2 4 6 10 -4 22
16 Alessandria 19 6 2 11 21 29 10 4 1 5 8 12 9 2 1 6 13 17 -8 20
17 Cosenza 19 4 4 11 16 32 10 4 1 5 10 12 9 0 3 6 6 20 -16 16
18 Crotone 19 2 6 11 21 33 10 2 4 4 13 16 9 0 2 7 8 17 -12 12
19 Pordenone 20 2 5 13 16 38 10 1 3 6 9 18 10 1 2 7 7 20 -22 11
20 Vicenza 19 2 2 15 19 37 9 0 2 7 9 18 10 2 0 8 10 19 -18 8

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.