Serie C: Girone A match prognosis and news & stats for the Virtus Verona vs Pro Patria meet

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone A
Competition: Sun 26.February
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale Gavagnin-Nocini (1200 seats)

Virtus Verona will want to utilise their home advantage to help shorten the gap to today’s adversaries. The hosts are currently 8 points behind Pro Patria.

Insights:
  • Virtus Verona have the fewest points (8) at home in Serie C: Girone A

This promises to be an entertaining fixture with lots of action and excitement as both participants are well refreshed since they last saw competitive action. Get ready!

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Virtus Verona form and stats

With 1 Serie C: Girone A win, 5 draws and 7 defeats from their home games, Virtus Verona are certainly not brimming with confidence. Virtus have played two draws in a row on their own stadium.

A good away victory last time out for Virtus Verona, who won 3-0 against Pro Vercelli (placed 13th).

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 1-1 versus Calcio Padova.

This is expected to be a close game, with Virtus Verona perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Virtus Verona as a small favourite), we find 13 games. Virtus Verona has won 3 of these, drawn 5 and lost 5.

It should be considered that a glance at the 15 latest league games reveals that 12 of them qualified as a both teams to score: NO result (only one or none of the teams scored).

Virtus aren't scoring a lot here at Stadio Comunale Gavagnin-Nocini in the league, with only {9 goals} from 13 games. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. Virtus Verona's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 16 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Pro Patria form and stats

The visitors are W5-D4-L5 on the road this term. That's in the Serie C: Girone A.

This fixture can not go any worse than the last one, the home loss versus Pergolettese with 1-2 on the scoreboard. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league rounds winning points.

Before that, Pro Patria travelled to Trento Calcio 1921 and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Patria in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Pro Patria, 5 draws and 3 defeats.

Few goals the story here? 12 of this club's latest 16 league fixtures have had two goals or less.

The attacking power of Pro Patria when travelling is not overwhelming with 12 goals scored from 14 league matches away.

Head 2 Head

The 4 most recent fixtures featuring these sides have all ended as Pro Patria victories. More of the same or streak broken?

The previous H2H meeting ended Pro Patria - Virtus Verona 1-0, earlier this season. The games between these sides sometimes lean towards being "violent", having seen 4 red cards from the last four duels.

Top Goalscorers

Virtus VeronaJ. Gómez Taleb
J. Gómez Taleb
7 goals
Virtus VeronaD. Danti
D. Danti
6 goals
Pro PatriaL. Stanzani
L. Stanzani
6 goals

Virtus Verona missing players

Pro Patria missing players

Virtus Verona Pro Patria
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
28 13 5 Played P 5 14 28
8 1 0 Won W 2 5 12
11 5 1 Drew D 1 4 7
9 7 4 Lost L 2 5 9
29 9 3 Scored S 3 12 30
24 16 8 Conceded C 4 14 27
79% 85% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 80% 86% 89%
61% 62% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 40% 50% 64%
32% 38% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 20% 29% 39%
11% 8% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 14% 7%
7% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 7% 4%
32% 38% 40% BTTS BTTS 0% 29% 39%
46% 23% 0% Clean Sheets C S 60% 50% 43%
43% 54% 60% Failed to Score F T 60% 36% 29%
 
3.6 4.3 3.6 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 3.6 3.4
5.2 4.5 5.4 Corners against (avg) C A 6 6.8 5.7
3 2.8 2.4 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.2 3 2.7
2 0 0 Red cards R C 0 0 4
 
7.9 9 9 Shots (avg) S ( 5.8 6.8 6.1
3.7 4.2 3.6 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2 2.5 2.5
27% 16% 17% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 38% 44%
 
9.5 10 10.4 Shots against (avg) S A 10.5 9 9
3.8 3.7 4.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4.5 4.6 3.9
Key stats in Serie C: Girone A this season:
  • Virtus Verona have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Virtus Verona have the fewest points (8) at home in Serie C: Girone A
  • Virtus Verona have the fewest scored goals (9) at home in Serie C: Girone A
  • Virtus Verona have won significantly more corners at 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 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.