Serie C: Girone A preview: Can Pontedera edge out victory against Olbia?

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone A
Competition: Sun 24.January
Match begins: 16:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Ettore Mannucci (5014 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Pontedera are in the 11th position while the guesting Olbia worry at 15th.

Insights:
  • Olbia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Both teams have had enough rest since their last competitive action. Let's hope for an energetic game!

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Pontedera form and stats

Overall Serie C: Girone A stats at home this season for Pontedera are 3-2-4 (wins-draw-losses).

Pontedera faced defeat in their previous match, away at Pergolettese (0-2). Preceding that match was the home game against AlbinoLeffe that was lost 1-2.

The home team are moderate favourites in this game. How does Pontedera handle that role? We have found seven games in our database similar to this one, based on the home odds. The stats for these games are three wins, two draws and two defeats.

Pontedera have scored 7 league goals here from 9 matches, not a lot. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Pontedera have only conceded 8 from their league home games. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Olbia form and stats

Olbia have only collected 9 points from their away games in the Serie C: Girone A, after 1-6-2 (9 played). It's been quite a sequence of draws for Olbia when traveling as their last four away games have all ended all square. Not since the Carrarese match has the points been distributed unevenly.

Impressive finishing from F. Pisano, Emerson and P. Udoh secured the home win 3-2 against Grosseto in their previous game. Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Novara that ended 1-1.

Olbia are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is two wins, four draws and five defeats. From a total of eleven matches.

The attacking power of Olbia when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 9 league matches away. 13 goals have been conceded by Olbia in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 1 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 away matches.

Head 2 Head

This is not the first time this season these parties meet, as the history books show this recent fixture: Olbia - Pontedera 0-1. As for the last nine games between these two teams, there's four Pontedera victories, three draws and two Olbia wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, six matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PontederaA. Magrassi
A. Magrassi
4 goals
OlbiaD. Ragatzu
D. Ragatzu
4 goals
PontederaL. Piana
L. Piana
2 goals

Pontedera missing players

Olbia missing players

Pontedera Olbia
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 2 Played P 3 9 19
7 3 1 Won W 0 1 4
4 2 0 Drew D 2 6 10
8 4 1 Lost L 1 2 5
18 7 1 Scored S 1 8 18
20 8 1 Conceded C 4 13 25
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 78% 79%
53% 33% 0% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 63%
37% 33% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 44% 42%
16% 11% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 26%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 16%
37% 33% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 67% 58%
32% 33% 50% Clean Sheets C S 33% 22% 26%
42% 44% 50% Failed to Score F T 67% 33% 37%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
1.7 1.8 1.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2 1.8 2.1
1 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
9.7 12.2 15.5 Shots (avg) S ( 8.3 9.8 8.8
3.8 4.9 6.5 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.3 3.3 3.2
25% 16% 8% Goal Efficiency G E 10% 27% 31%
Key stats in Serie C: Girone A this season:
  • Olbia have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than 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 Renate 19 13 3 3 33 17 9 7 0 2 17 8 10 6 3 1 16 9 16 42
2 Como 18 11 4 3 27 21 10 5 3 2 9 8 8 6 1 1 18 13 6 37
3 Pro Vercelli 19 9 5 5 26 21 10 6 2 2 16 10 9 3 3 3 10 11 5 32
4 Alessandria 18 9 4 5 25 16 8 5 1 2 15 8 10 4 3 3 10 8 9 31
5 Pro Patria 19 8 6 5 19 12 9 3 4 2 9 6 10 5 2 3 10 6 7 30
6 Juventus U23 19 8 5 6 26 21 10 4 3 3 15 12 9 4 2 3 11 9 5 29
7 Lecco 19 8 5 6 26 21 9 6 2 1 17 10 10 2 3 5 9 11 5 29
8 Carrarese 19 8 5 6 20 18 10 4 2 4 10 9 9 4 3 2 10 9 2 29
9 AlbinoLeffe 19 6 8 5 20 18 10 3 4 3 6 5 9 3 4 2 14 13 2 26
10 Grosseto 19 7 4 8 20 21 9 1 2 6 8 14 10 6 2 2 12 7 -1 25
11 Pontedera 19 7 4 8 18 20 9 3 2 4 7 8 10 4 2 4 11 12 -2 25
12 Pro Sesto 19 7 4 8 18 23 10 3 3 4 9 9 9 4 1 4 9 14 -5 25
13 Pergolettese 19 6 4 9 26 28 10 4 0 6 11 13 9 2 4 3 15 15 -2 22
14 Pistoiese 19 6 4 9 19 22 10 5 3 2 13 8 9 1 1 7 6 14 -3 22
15 Olbia 19 4 10 5 18 25 10 3 4 3 10 12 9 1 6 2 8 13 -7 22
16 Novara 19 4 7 8 19 25 9 2 5 2 10 8 10 2 2 6 9 17 -6 19
17 Piacenza 19 3 9 7 25 27 9 2 5 2 17 14 10 1 4 5 8 13 -2 18
18 Giana Erminio 19 5 3 11 15 27 9 3 2 4 11 10 10 2 1 7 4 17 -12 18
19 Livorno 19 4 7 8 21 23 9 2 4 3 13 13 10 2 3 5 8 10 -2 14
20 Lucchese 19 2 7 10 18 33 10 1 3 6 12 19 9 1 4 4 6 14 -15 13

Read more about Serie C: Girone A

Serie C is the third highest level in the Italian football league. It is divided into three geographical divisions; North East, North West and South. These are often referred to as Girone (or group) A, B, C. Each group holds 20 teams who play 38 fixtures each to create a final league table.