Evenly matched teams: Pro Patria vs Lecco match preview

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone A
Competition: Sun 13.December
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Carlo Speroni (4627 seats)

Pro Patria will hope to utilise their home advantage to help bridge the gap to today’s opponents. The home side are currently 5 points behind Lecco.

Insights:
  • Pro Patria has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie C: Girone A
  • Lecco haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

Both teams should be fairly well rested for this game, as they have had some quiet days to prepare. Hopefully this will translate into lots of action on the pitch.

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Pro Patria form and stats

Pro Patria's struggle is real here at Stadio Carlo Speroni with only 6 points collected from 6 Serie C: Girone A games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 1-3-2.

No payout for Pro Patria in their previous match, an away game at Juventus U23 that ended in defeat 1-3. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Grosseto that ended 0-0.

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

Patria are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 6 goals in 6 games. From these home matches, Patria have conceded only 5 goals.

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Lecco form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie C: Girone A travels is 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.

Impressive finishing from R. Capogna, S. Iocolano and F. Mastroianni (2) secured the home win 4-1 against Pistoiese in their previous game. Preceding that game, the 0-1 loss visiting Pro Sesto's place.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found six similar matches played by Lecco in our archives, and the results are: three wins for Lecco, two draws and one defeat.

Lecco find the net regularly in their away games. 8 goals from 7 away fixtures in the league. As opposed to that, Lecco have seen the ball go into their own net 8 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

As for the last seven games between these two teams, there's seven Pro Patria victories, zero draws and zero Lecco wins. Over/under statistics; three of these games ended with three goals or more, four matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

PatriaS. Parker
S. Parker
5 goals
LeccoR. Capogna
R. Capogna
5 goals
LeccoF. Mastroianni
F. Mastroianni
4 goals

Pro Patria missing players

Lecco missing players

Pro Patria Lecco
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
14 6 1 Played P 3 7 14
5 1 0 Won W 1 2 7
4 3 1 Drew D 0 2 3
5 2 0 Lost L 2 3 4
14 6 1 Scored S 2 8 21
11 5 1 Conceded C 3 8 16
79% 67% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 93%
50% 67% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 33% 71% 64%
43% 50% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 43% 50%
7% 0% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 21%
36% 50% 100% BTTS BTTS 33% 43% 50%
50% 50% 0% Clean Sheets C S 0% 14% 29%
36% 33% 0% Failed to Score F T 67% 43% 29%
 
0 0 0 Corners for (avg) C F 0 0 0
0 0 0 Corners against (avg) C A 0 0 0
2.8 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.6 2.6
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 1
 
10.1 11 8 Shots (avg) S ( 8 9.1 8.9
3.4 4.2 3 Shots on Target (avg) S O 1.3 3 3.5
30% 24% 33% Goal Efficiency G E 50% 38% 43%
Key stats in Serie C: Girone A this season:
  • Lecco haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.
  • Pro Patria has the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie C: Girone A
  • Pro Patria have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

  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 14 10 1 3 24 12 7 5 0 2 13 7 7 5 1 1 11 5 12 31
2 Pro Vercelli 13 8 2 3 18 11 6 5 0 1 9 3 7 3 2 2 9 8 7 26
3 Juventus U23 14 7 4 3 22 15 7 4 2 1 13 8 7 3 2 2 9 7 7 25
4 Carrarese 14 7 4 3 16 11 8 3 2 3 9 8 6 4 2 0 7 3 5 25
5 Como 14 7 4 3 19 17 7 2 3 2 5 7 7 5 1 1 14 10 2 25
6 Lecco 14 7 3 4 21 16 7 5 1 1 13 8 7 2 2 3 8 8 5 24
7 Alessandria 14 7 2 5 22 15 7 5 0 2 14 7 7 2 2 3 8 8 7 23
8 Pro Sesto 14 7 2 5 15 15 7 3 2 2 7 4 7 4 0 3 8 11 0 23
9 AlbinoLeffe 14 5 5 4 15 13 8 3 2 3 5 4 6 2 3 1 10 9 2 20
10 Pro Patria 14 5 4 5 14 11 6 1 3 2 6 5 8 4 1 3 8 6 3 19
11 Grosseto 14 5 4 5 12 11 7 1 2 4 5 8 7 4 2 1 7 3 1 19
12 Pontedera 14 5 3 6 11 13 7 2 2 3 4 5 7 3 1 3 7 8 -2 18
13 Novara 14 4 5 5 18 19 7 2 3 2 9 7 7 2 2 3 9 12 -1 17
14 Pergolettese 14 4 3 7 21 24 7 2 0 5 7 12 7 2 3 2 14 12 -3 15
15 Livorno 13 3 5 5 17 17 7 2 3 2 12 10 6 1 2 3 5 7 0 14
16 Piacenza 14 3 5 6 21 22 7 2 3 2 15 12 7 1 2 4 6 10 -1 14
17 Olbia 14 2 7 5 11 20 7 1 3 3 4 8 7 1 4 2 7 12 -9 13
18 Giana Erminio 14 4 1 9 12 24 6 2 1 3 9 9 8 2 0 6 3 15 -12 13
19 Pistoiese 14 3 3 8 12 19 7 3 2 2 9 7 7 0 1 6 3 12 -7 12
20 Lucchese 14 1 3 10 12 28 7 0 1 6 9 17 7 1 2 4 3 11 -16 6

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.