Olbia vs Novara: Match guide and preview

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone A
Date: Thu 18.April
Match begins: 18:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Bruno Nespoli (3200 seats)

Olbia hope to sell some tickets for this game even though the season has been rough so far with 35 points and a 16th position in the Serie C: Girone A table. Visiting Novara holds 9th place with 49 pts.

Olbia and Novara should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.

This pitch has grass, which is not Novara's usual surface at their own ground. When playing on grass Novara have performed like this: Played 39 matches resulting in 12 wins, 15 draws and 12 defeats with the goal stats 46-42 (scored/conceded).

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Olbia form and stats

The home fans haven’t been spoiled with victories so far this season. Olbia have only managed 3 wins, 6 draws and 8 losses so far from their games here at Stadio Bruno Nespoli. Three consecutive losses here at Stadio Bruno Nespoli is hard to swallow for the home team. Both players, staff and the home crowd are desperate to get something from this match.

The home team returns to Stadio Bruno Nespoli after sharing the points with Juventus U23 on their last time out; the Serie C: Girone A game ended 2-2. Prior to that was the away defeat visiting Robur Siena (0-1).

Olbia aren't scoring a lot here at Stadio Bruno Nespoli with only 12 goals from 17 games. 18 goals have been conceded.

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Novara form and stats

6-9-2 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Novara, who have the fewest conceded goals (11) away in Serie C: Girone A, in their matches away.

The manager G. Sannino was unhappy after their last game, a Serie C: Girone A match played at their home ground Stadio Bruno Nespoli. Novara suffered a 0-1 loss to Alessandria. Ahead of that match was the victory versus Lucchese at their stadium, the result 1-0.

Novara have scored 20 goals on their travels this season, 17 away games. It's not easy to score on Novara as they have only conceded 11 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

The two sides played each other earlier this season: Novara - Olbia 4-0. Numbers for the last one meeting between these two teams are: 0 wins for Olbia, 0 draws and 1 win for Novara.

Top Goalscorers

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Novara missing players

Olbia Novara
Total Home Statistic Away Total
35 17 Played 17 35
36 12 Scored 20 43
45 18 Conceded 11 30
89% 82% Over 0.5 82% 86%
57% 47% Over 1.5 65% 66%
40% 29% Over 2.5 18% 34%
26% 12% Over 3.5 6% 17%
14% 6% Over 4.5 6% 3%
51% 47% Both teams to score 41% 46%
17% 18% Clean Sheet 53% 43%
43% 53% Failed To Score 24% 26%
 
0 0 Corners For (avg) 0 0
0 0 Corners Against (avg) 0 0
0 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 0 0
0 0 Red Cards (avg) 0 0

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A D P
1 Virtus Entella 34 20 9 5 56 24 17 12 4 1 33 10 17 8 5 4 23 14 32 69
2 Piacenza 34 20 8 6 53 29 17 12 1 4 27 14 17 8 7 2 26 15 24 68
3 Pisa 35 18 11 6 45 28 17 8 8 1 21 12 18 10 3 5 24 16 17 65
4 Carrarese 35 19 5 11 67 42 18 12 1 5 38 19 17 7 4 6 29 23 25 62
5 Pro Vercelli 35 17 10 8 43 27 18 7 9 2 18 9 17 10 1 6 25 18 16 61
6 Robur Siena 35 15 14 6 52 39 17 10 4 3 24 14 18 5 10 3 28 25 13 59
7 Arezzo 34 13 16 5 41 32 17 7 10 0 25 15 17 6 6 5 16 17 9 55
8 Pro Patria 35 15 8 12 41 35 18 11 5 2 28 15 17 4 3 10 13 20 6 53
9 Novara 35 11 16 8 43 30 18 5 7 6 23 19 17 6 9 2 20 11 13 49
10 Cuneo 35 12 12 11 29 32 17 7 7 3 14 8 18 5 5 8 15 24 -3 48
11 Pontedera 35 11 14 10 34 37 18 6 9 3 21 19 17 5 5 7 13 18 -3 47
12 Lucchese 35 9 17 9 43 37 17 5 8 4 26 19 18 4 9 5 17 18 6 44
13 Juventus U23 35 11 6 18 39 45 18 8 4 6 26 20 17 3 2 12 13 25 -6 39
14 Alessandria 35 7 18 10 30 40 17 2 8 7 13 22 18 5 10 3 17 18 -10 39
15 Pistoiese 35 9 8 18 38 45 17 5 3 9 17 22 18 4 5 9 21 23 -7 35
16 Olbia 35 8 11 16 36 45 17 3 6 8 12 18 18 5 5 8 24 27 -9 35
17 Arzachena 35 11 1 23 25 53 18 8 1 9 17 23 17 3 0 14 8 30 -28 34
18 Gozzano 35 6 15 14 33 40 17 3 5 9 15 23 18 3 10 5 18 17 -7 33
19 Albissola 35 7 8 20 32 54 18 5 3 10 20 27 17 2 5 10 12 27 -22 29
20 Pro Piacenza 34 5 1 28 18 84 17 2 1 14 8 44 17 3 0 14 10 40 -66 16

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