Football match preview: Fiorenzuola vs Ancona

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Sun 15.January
Match begins: 13:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Comunale (4000 seats)

Serie C: Girone B: Two squads in fair form get together for this fixture. Ancona might have a small edge with their 6th spot in the standings?

Insights:
  • Fiorenzuola have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Ancona have the most scored goals (34) in Serie C: Girone B

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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Fiorenzuola form and stats

6-1-4 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie C: Girone B numbers at home for Fiorenzuola so far this season. Fiorenzuola has three losses from their three previous games and the tension is increasing in the dressing room for both the manager Tabbiani and the players.

Fiorenzuola's previous game was also a home match, the defeat 0-3 versus Vis Pesaro (placed 16th).

Prior to that, an away loss at Fermana.

This is expected to be a close game, with Fiorenzuola perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Fiorenzuola as a small favourite), we find 8 games. Fiorenzuola has won 6 of these, drawn 1 and lost 1.

Fiorenzuola are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 13 goals in 11 games. Fiorenzuola are not conceding a lot of goals here at Stadio Comunale in the league, averaging less than one per game. The total is 8 from 11 matches. It's worth mentioning that 6 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Ancona form and stats

3-3-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Ancona in their Serie C: Girone B matches away.

Did you know that the longest clean sheet streak is 1816 minutes? This record is held by Mazaropi when he played in Vasco da Gama. Ancona goalkeeper is eager to challenge this, with his 285 minutes of keeping balls out from the net.

Ancona go into this game after a win, the home game against Pontedera that ended 3-0. Ancona delivered their win in the match against Pontedera already in the first half, and could slow the play down in the final 45 minutes to ensure the glorious victory. A solid performance!

Ahead of that match was the away draw versus Siena that ended 0-0.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 8 similar matches played by Ancona in our archives, and the results are: 3 wins for Ancona, 4 draws and 1 defeat.

Ancona are scoring more than one goal per away game on average, having accumulated 14 away goals from 10 games (in the league). It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. As opposed to that, Ancona have seen the ball go into their own net 13 times on the road.

Head 2 Head

Ancona - Fiorenzuola 2-0 was the score in these sides' last h2h fixture, played this season.

Top Goalscorers

AnconaA. Spagnoli
A. Spagnoli
9 goals
AnconaA. Di Massimo
A. Di Massimo
7 goals
FiorenzuolaF. Mastroianni
F. Mastroianni
6 goals

Fiorenzuola missing players

Ancona missing players

Fiorenzuola Ancona
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
21 11 3 Played P 3 10 21
10 6 1 Won W 0 3 10
2 1 0 Drew D 1 3 5
9 4 2 Lost L 2 4 6
23 13 5 Scored S 1 14 34
20 8 2 Conceded C 4 13 20
95% 91% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 67% 90% 95%
52% 45% 33% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 70% 76%
33% 36% 33% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 50% 52%
10% 9% 33% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 30% 19%
10% 9% 33% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 20% 10%
29% 18% 0% BTTS BTTS 33% 50% 48%
43% 55% 33% Clean Sheets C S 33% 30% 38%
33% 36% 67% Failed to Score F T 67% 30% 19%
 
3.2 2.2 1 Corners for (avg) C F 5 5 5.2
5.9 5.5 5 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 5.3 4.5
2.4 2.7 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.7 3.1 3
3 1 0 Red cards R C 0 3 6
 
7.4 7.2 6 Shots (avg) S ( 10 11.5 11.4
3.1 3.5 3.7 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3 5.1 5.1
35% 33% 45% Goal Efficiency G E 11% 27% 32%
 
11.6 10 11.3 Shots against (avg) S A 9.3 8.9 8.4
5.1 3.3 3.7 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 3.3 3.1
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Ancona have the most scored goals (34) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Fiorenzuola have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won at home.
  • Fiorenzuola have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Fiorenzuola have won significantly less 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 Reggiana 21 14 4 3 32 11 10 7 2 1 19 3 11 7 2 2 13 8 21 46
2 Cesena 21 12 5 4 30 14 11 7 2 2 21 9 10 5 3 2 9 5 16 41
3 Gubbio 21 12 3 6 30 17 11 6 1 4 15 10 10 6 2 2 15 7 13 39
4 Virtus Entella 21 11 6 4 27 20 11 5 4 2 14 11 10 6 2 2 13 9 7 39
5 Pontedera 21 10 6 5 27 25 10 6 3 1 15 11 11 4 3 4 12 14 2 36
6 Ancona 21 10 5 6 34 20 11 7 2 2 20 7 10 3 3 4 14 13 14 35
7 Carrarese 21 10 3 8 29 24 11 7 2 2 17 7 10 3 1 6 12 17 5 33
8 Lucchese 21 9 5 7 22 18 10 5 2 3 12 10 11 4 3 4 10 8 4 32
9 Fiorenzuola 21 10 2 9 23 20 11 6 1 4 13 8 10 4 1 5 10 12 3 32
10 Rimini 21 9 4 8 29 19 10 5 2 3 20 9 11 4 2 5 9 10 10 31
11 Siena 21 8 7 6 21 17 10 3 5 2 8 5 11 5 2 4 13 12 4 31
12 Fermana 21 6 8 7 25 26 11 4 4 3 11 10 10 2 4 4 14 16 -1 26
13 Sassari Torres 21 5 9 7 17 17 10 2 4 4 8 10 11 3 5 3 9 7 0 24
14 Recanatese 21 5 7 9 17 25 10 2 3 5 8 11 11 3 4 4 9 14 -8 22
15 San Donato Tavarnelle 21 4 7 10 20 30 11 1 5 5 9 14 10 3 2 5 11 16 -10 19
16 Vis Pesaro 21 4 7 10 12 30 10 2 2 6 4 14 11 2 5 4 8 16 -18 19
17 Olbia 21 3 9 9 19 29 11 2 4 5 11 16 10 1 5 4 8 13 -10 18
18 Alessandria 21 4 6 11 16 31 10 2 3 5 10 14 11 2 3 6 6 17 -15 18
19 Montevarchi 21 4 5 12 18 32 10 2 4 4 9 13 11 2 1 8 9 19 -14 17
20 Imolese 21 4 4 13 10 33 11 3 1 7 6 16 10 1 3 6 4 17 -23 16

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.