Football betting preview: Imolese vs Lucchese

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Sun 08.January
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Romeo Galli (3809 seats)

Imolese are counting on their home crowd to aid them in this fixture versus Lucchese. Who wins at Stadio Romeo Galli?

Insights:
  • Imolese have the most conceded goals (31) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Lucchese have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.

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Imolese form and stats

Imolese's struggle is real here at Stadio Romeo Galli with only 10 points collected from 10 Serie C: Girone B games. The win-draw-lost numbers are ugly: 3-1-6.

Times are rough for the home team, having gone 420 minutes without scoring a league goal. Zagnoni was the last player to find the net.

In their previous game, the manager Anastasi led his Imolese to a defeat away at Alessandria. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Stadio Romeo Galli.

Preceding that match was a defeat to Reggiana (0-1).

Imolese have scored {6 league goals} here from 10 matches, not a lot. Imolese's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 14 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Lucchese form and stats

As the visiting team in Serie C: Girone B matches, Lucchese have produced an overall stat of 3-3-4 so far. Lucchese has drawn their two previous away games.

This match can not go any worse than the last one, the home defeat versus Reggiana with 0-1 on the scoreboard. That defeat was their first after four consecutive league fixtures winning points.

A 1-1 draw at Olbia's stadium before that.

Low on goals? 12 of this club's latest 15 league fixtures have had two or less goals.

The attacking power of Lucchese when travelling is not overwhelming with 8 goals scored from 10 league matches away. It's not easy to score on Lucchese as they have only conceded 8 goals from these away games.

Head 2 Head

Lucchese - Imolese 3-1 was the score in these contenders' previous head to head game, earlier this season. Data for the former six meetings featuring these two contenders are: one win for Imolese, two draws and three wins for Lucchese. Over 2,5 goals: four times; under 2,5 goals: two games.

Top Goalscorers

LuccheseA. Bianchimano
A. Bianchimano
4 goals
ImoleseO. Stijepović
O. Stijepović
3 goals
ImoleseG. De Feo
G. De Feo
3 goals

Imolese missing players

Lucchese missing players

Imolese Lucchese
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
20 10 2 Played P 4 10 20
4 3 0 Won W 2 3 8
4 1 0 Drew D 2 3 5
12 6 2 Lost L 0 4 7
10 6 0 Scored S 4 8 20
31 14 6 Conceded C 1 8 18
80% 90% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 75% 90% 90%
60% 60% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 50% 55%
45% 40% 50% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 20% 30%
20% 10% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 10%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 5%
30% 30% 0% BTTS BTTS 25% 40% 45%
25% 20% 0% Clean Sheets C S 75% 40% 35%
65% 60% 100% Failed to Score F T 25% 30% 30%
 
3.2 3.1 4 Corners for (avg) C F 3.2 2.8 3.5
4.8 4.3 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 7 5.8 5.2
3.1 3.4 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.2 2.8 2.9
6 2 0 Red cards R C 0 0 2
 
7.3 7.1 7.5 Shots (avg) S ( 7.2 7.4 8.3
2.2 2.1 2 Shots on Target (avg) S O 3.5 2.7 3.1
23% 29% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 29% 30% 32%
 
10.8 8.9 10.5 Shots against (avg) S A 9.2 9.8 10
4.5 3.9 6.5 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.5 3.6 3.4
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Imolese have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Imolese have the fewest scored goals in the second half (5) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Imolese have the most conceded goals (31) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Lucchese have conceded at least twice as many corners as they have won away.
  • Lucchese have won significantly less corners away then at 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 Reggiana 20 13 4 3 28 11 9 6 2 1 15 3 11 7 2 2 13 8 17 43
2 Gubbio 20 12 3 5 29 14 10 6 1 3 14 7 10 6 2 2 15 7 15 39
3 Cesena 20 11 5 4 29 14 10 6 2 2 20 9 10 5 3 2 9 5 15 38
4 Pontedera 20 10 6 4 27 22 10 6 3 1 15 11 10 4 3 3 12 11 5 36
5 Virtus Entella 20 10 6 4 23 18 10 4 4 2 10 9 10 6 2 2 13 9 5 36
6 Carrarese 20 10 3 7 27 20 11 7 2 2 17 7 9 3 1 5 10 13 7 33
7 Ancona 1905 20 9 5 6 31 20 10 6 2 2 17 7 10 3 3 4 14 13 11 32
8 Fiorenzuola 20 10 2 8 23 17 10 6 1 3 13 5 10 4 1 5 10 12 6 32
9 Rimini 20 9 4 7 29 18 10 5 2 3 20 9 10 4 2 4 9 9 11 31
10 Siena 20 8 7 5 21 13 10 3 5 2 8 5 10 5 2 3 13 8 8 31
11 Lucchese 20 8 5 7 20 18 10 5 2 3 12 10 10 3 3 4 8 8 2 29
12 Fermana 20 5 8 7 22 25 11 4 4 3 11 10 9 1 4 4 11 15 -3 23
13 Sassari Torres 20 4 9 7 14 16 10 2 4 4 8 10 10 2 5 3 6 6 -2 21
14 San Donato Tavarnelle 20 4 7 9 19 27 10 1 5 4 8 11 10 3 2 5 11 16 -8 19
15 Recanatese 20 4 7 9 13 23 9 1 3 5 4 9 11 3 4 4 9 14 -10 19
16 Alessandria 20 4 6 10 14 27 10 2 3 5 10 14 10 2 3 5 4 13 -13 18
17 Montevarchi 20 4 5 11 17 30 10 2 4 4 9 13 10 2 1 7 8 17 -13 17
18 Imolese 20 4 4 12 10 31 10 3 1 6 6 14 10 1 3 6 4 17 -21 16
19 Vis Pesaro 20 3 7 10 9 30 10 2 2 6 4 14 10 1 5 4 5 16 -21 16
20 Olbia 20 2 9 9 17 28 10 1 4 5 9 15 10 1 5 4 8 13 -11 15

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.