Evenly matched teams: Fermana vs Virtus Entella match preview

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Sun 19.December
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Bruno Recchioni (9500 seats)

The visiting Virtus Entella team are thought to be the strongest party at Fermana, as the visitors hold a 10 point advantage from their 18 league fixtures this season.

Insights:
  • Fermana have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Virtus Entella have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.

Virtus Entella play their home fixtures on artifical turf, while this game occurs on grass. Relevant data for Virtus Entella when playing on grass are 7 wins, 12 draws and 25 defeats from 44 matches. They have created 50 goals and conceded 74 times in these games.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Fermana form and stats

4 victories, 3 draws and 2 defeats. That’s what Fermana have to build on here at Stadio Bruno Recchioni in the Serie C: Girone B. Fermana are on a three game winning streak in their home games.

Fermana shared the glory with Olbia in their last match, an away game that ended all square 0-0.

A defeat was the result before that one, 1-2 away at Reggiana.

This is expected to be a close game, with Fermana perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Fermana as a small favourite), we find 20 games. Fermana has won seven of these, drawn nine and lost four.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Fermana as they are travelling to their away game against Viterbese Castrense in the Serie C: Girone B. That match is three days after this one.

Fermana are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 11 goals in 9 games. 9 goals have been conceded. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last 3 home matches.

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Virtus Entella form and stats

The visitors are W3-D2-L4 on the road this term. That's in the Serie C: Girone B.

Virtus Entella failed to get anything from their last game, a Serie C: Girone B home match vs Reggiana (placed 2nd) that ended with defeat 0-1.

Prior to that result Entella won their away game at Viterbese Castrense. The scoreline was 5-2.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found nine similar matches played by Virtus Entella in our archives, and the results are: two wins for Virtus Entella, three draws and four defeats.

Entella have another fixture that requires travelling in just three sleeps, a Serie C: Girone B game versus Teramo. A grim timetable for them!

The travelling fans enjoy Entella's attacking play in away games, having scored 14 goals in 9 league matches away. It's worth mentioning that 8 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. Defensive performances away have varied in quality as Entella have conceded 14 goals on the road. For more goal statistics, check out the Statistics tab above.

Head 2 Head

Top Goalscorers

Virtus EntellaF. Lescano
F. Lescano
7 goals
Virtus EntellaA. Magrassi
A. Magrassi
6 goals
Virtus EntellaL. Morosini
L. Morosini
5 goals

Fermana missing players

Virtus Entella missing players

Fermana Virtus Entella
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
18 9 1 Played P 3 9 18
5 4 0 Won W 1 3 8
4 3 0 Drew D 1 2 5
9 2 1 Lost L 1 4 5
17 11 0 Scored S 6 14 29
25 9 4 Conceded C 5 14 21
89% 89% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 89% 89%
61% 56% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 78% 72%
44% 33% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 67% 50%
22% 22% 100% Over 3.5 O 3.5 67% 44% 39%
11% 11% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 33% 11% 11%
33% 22% 0% BTTS BTTS 67% 78% 56%
33% 56% 0% Clean Sheets C S 33% 11% 33%
44% 33% 100% Failed to Score F T 33% 22% 22%
 
3.6 2.6 0 Corners for (avg) C F 4.7 4.7 5.6
5.8 6.2 7 Corners against (avg) C A 3 5.1 4.2
2.4 2.5 2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.3 2.1 2.1
2 1 0 Red cards R C 0 1 2
 
7.4 5.9 4 Shots (avg) S ( 14 11.7 11.7
3.5 3.5 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 5.3 4.1 4.6
27% 36% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 38% 38% 35%
 
11.3 11.2 14 Shots against (avg) S A 7 8.9 8.4
4.9 4.4 7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.7 4 3.6
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Fermana have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Fermana have the fewest points from losing position (0) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Fermana have won significantly less corners at home than away.
  • Virtus Entella 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 Modena 18 13 3 2 36 14 9 6 2 1 19 8 9 7 1 1 17 6 22 42
2 Reggiana 18 12 6 0 32 10 9 6 3 0 17 5 9 6 3 0 15 5 22 42
3 Cesena 18 10 6 2 25 10 9 5 3 1 13 4 9 5 3 1 12 6 15 36
4 Virtus Entella 18 8 5 5 29 21 9 5 3 1 15 7 9 3 2 4 14 14 8 29
5 Ancona 18 8 4 6 31 23 9 6 0 3 17 12 9 2 4 3 14 11 8 28
6 Pescara 18 7 7 4 26 22 10 4 4 2 14 11 8 3 3 2 12 11 4 28
7 Lucchese 18 6 6 6 16 18 9 4 3 2 10 7 9 2 3 4 6 11 -2 24
8 Vis Pesaro 18 5 9 4 17 20 9 3 4 2 7 8 9 2 5 2 10 12 -3 24
9 Pontedera 18 7 3 8 24 29 9 5 2 2 16 11 9 2 1 6 8 18 -5 24
10 Gubbio 18 5 8 5 25 19 8 4 3 1 15 6 10 1 5 4 10 13 6 23
11 Siena 18 6 5 7 21 19 10 4 2 4 13 11 8 2 3 3 8 8 2 23
12 Carrarese 18 5 7 6 20 27 9 4 4 1 14 8 9 1 3 5 6 19 -7 22
13 Olbia 18 6 3 9 24 27 9 5 1 3 13 11 9 1 2 6 11 16 -3 21
14 Montevarchi 18 6 3 9 20 29 9 4 2 3 14 12 9 2 1 6 6 17 -9 21
15 Fermana 18 5 4 9 17 25 9 4 3 2 11 9 9 1 1 7 6 16 -8 19
16 Teramo 18 4 7 7 18 30 9 2 3 4 8 16 9 2 4 3 10 14 -12 19
17 Imolese 18 5 5 8 24 24 9 2 3 4 15 12 9 3 2 4 9 12 0 18
18 Grosseto 18 2 8 8 11 22 9 0 6 3 5 8 9 2 2 5 6 14 -11 14
19 Pistoiese 18 3 5 10 14 29 8 2 2 4 8 13 10 1 3 6 6 16 -15 14
20 Viterbese Castrense 18 2 6 10 21 33 9 2 2 5 11 17 9 0 4 5 10 16 -12 12

Read more about Serie C: Girone B

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.