Serie C: Girone A: Pro Sesto - Pro Vercelli match guide and numbers

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone A
Competition: Sun 26.February
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Ernesto Breda (4475 seats)

The host team, Pro Sesto, should be odds-on favourites in this match, but Pro Vercelli have revealed both talent and bravery. Read more about the game!

Insights:
  • Pro Sesto is in the best form (4-2-0) in Serie C: Girone A
  • Pro Vercelli haven’t played a single 0-0 game away.

Sesto's stadium, Stadio Ernesto Breda, has a grass surface. Pro Vercelli have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Pro Vercelli when playing on grass; 12 wins, 15 draws and 13 losses from 40 matches. They have scored {46 goals} in these games and conceded 49.

This promises to be an engaging match with lots of spark and bustle as both participants are well rested since they last ran out on the pitch. Game on!

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Pro Sesto form and stats

The story so far in the Serie C: Girone A for Pro Sesto at their home stadium (Stadio Ernesto Breda) is 6 wins, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

Pro Sesto enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Novara's place. The match ended 1-0 with Gerbi scoring.

In the match before that, Pro Sesto hosted Juventus U23 and drew the game 1-1.

The bookmakers consider this a fairly even contest. One could say only the home advantage separates the teams. It could be relevant to look at how Sesto have performed in matches similar to this (as small favourites). Our database has found 15 matches with the results: Won 2, drawn 7 and lost 6.

Not much happening? In this team's last 10 league games, 8 have had two goals or less.

Pro Sesto has scored 18 league goals at home this season, in 14 matches. On the other hand, Pro Sesto have conceded 16 goals.

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Pro Vercelli form and stats

The visitors are W4-D4-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Serie C: Girone A.

Pro Vercelli might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Virtus Verona proved too strong as Pro Vercelli slumped to a 0-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Stadio Silvio Piola.

Preceding that game, the 1-1 draw paying a visit to Piacenza.

So, this is expected to be a close game, an even contest. Looking at earlier matches with Pro Vercelli playing away and similar expectations, we found 15 relevant matches. Results were 5 Vercelli wins, 3 draws and 7 defeats.

Pro Vercelli have a decent goal production going in their away games, although not fantastic. In 13 league away games 16 goals have been scored. 17 goals have been conceded by Pro Vercelli in these games. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 2 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Here's the end result when the sides faced each other previously this season; Pro Vercelli - Pro Sesto 1-2. Previous seven meetings featuring these sides: Sesto won two, Pro Vercelli were winners in three and we saw two draws. two games with more than 2,5 goals, five matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

Pro SestoN. Bruschi
N. Bruschi
11 goals
Pro VercelliG. Comi
G. Comi
9 goals
Pro SestoA. Capelli
A. Capelli
5 goals

Pro Sesto missing players

Pro Vercelli missing players

Pro Sesto Pro Vercelli
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs top Away Total
28 14 4 Played P 3 13 28
14 6 2 Won W 2 4 9
8 5 1 Drew D 0 4 8
6 3 1 Lost L 1 5 11
37 18 5 Scored S 5 16 32
35 16 3 Conceded C 4 17 36
93% 93% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 96%
71% 71% 75% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 62% 75%
46% 50% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 38% 43%
21% 21% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 23% 14%
11% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 23% 11%
57% 64% 50% BTTS BTTS 67% 54% 57%
36% 29% 25% Clean Sheets C S 33% 23% 25%
14% 14% 25% Failed to Score F T 0% 23% 21%
 
3.2 3.3 3 Corners for (avg) C F 5 3.8 4
5 4.4 3.2 Corners against (avg) C A 5.7 5.6 5.2
3 2.9 3.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.7 2.9 3.2
4 1 0 Red cards R C 0 4 6
 
7.5 6.6 5.5 Shots (avg) S ( 9 8.3 9.8
3 2.1 1.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4.3 3.5 4.2
44% 60% 71% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 36% 27%
 
10 9.4 9.5 Shots against (avg) S A 14 10.2 9.5
4 3.9 2.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 5.3 4.8 4.1
Key stats in Serie C: Girone A this season:
  • Pro Sesto have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Pro Sesto is in the best form (4-2-0) in Serie C: Girone A
  • Pro Vercelli haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 FeralpiSalo 28 14 8 6 25 15 14 7 2 5 14 11 14 7 6 1 11 4 10 50
2 Pro Sesto 28 14 8 6 37 35 14 6 5 3 18 16 14 8 3 3 19 19 2 50
3 Pordenone 28 13 10 5 45 25 14 6 6 2 22 12 14 7 4 3 23 13 20 49
4 Lecco 28 14 6 8 38 33 13 10 1 2 23 8 15 4 5 6 15 25 5 48
5 Vicenza 29 14 5 10 53 36 15 8 3 4 32 15 14 6 2 6 21 21 17 47
6 Pro Patria 28 12 7 9 30 27 14 7 3 4 18 13 14 5 4 5 12 14 3 43
7 Renate 28 11 9 8 37 34 14 7 3 4 18 15 14 4 6 4 19 19 3 42
8 Union ArzignanoChiampo 28 10 11 7 34 28 14 5 6 3 19 12 14 5 5 4 15 16 6 41
9 Juventus U23 29 10 8 11 34 35 15 8 3 4 20 15 14 2 5 7 14 20 -1 38
10 Novara 28 11 4 13 34 34 14 6 4 4 21 11 14 5 0 9 13 23 0 37
11 Calcio Padova 28 8 12 8 30 32 15 4 8 3 18 17 13 4 4 5 12 15 -2 36
12 Virtus Verona 28 8 11 9 29 24 13 1 5 7 9 16 15 7 6 2 20 8 5 35
13 Pro Vercelli 28 9 8 11 32 36 15 5 4 6 16 19 13 4 4 5 16 17 -4 35
14 Trento Calcio 1921 28 9 7 12 31 34 14 3 5 6 14 18 14 6 2 6 17 16 -3 34
15 Sangiuliano City 29 10 4 15 34 38 14 6 2 6 16 15 15 4 2 9 18 23 -4 34
16 AlbinoLeffe 28 8 10 10 32 36 14 3 6 5 14 15 14 5 4 5 18 21 -4 34
17 Pergolettese 28 9 6 13 33 37 14 7 2 5 24 20 14 2 4 8 9 17 -4 33
18 Mantova 28 8 7 13 35 49 14 6 3 5 21 21 14 2 4 8 14 28 -14 31
19 Triestina 29 6 8 15 21 39 15 5 3 7 12 19 14 1 5 8 9 20 -18 26
20 Piacenza 28 5 9 14 31 48 13 2 5 6 16 22 15 3 4 8 15 26 -17 24

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.