Serie C: Girone B match guide: Lucchese vs Cesena

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Tue 29.November
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Porta Elisa (7386 seats)

Both teams are sailing pretty smoothly so far, Cesena holding a 7 point edge on Lucchese in the standings. Let's go!

Insights:
  • Lucchese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Cesena have the the best goal difference (+12) in Serie C: Girone B

It should be mentioned that Cesena play their home matches on artifical turf, so they have to adjust for this one as it's played on grass. Does it matter? Recent statistics for Cesena on grass are 18 victories, 11 draws and 10 defeats from 39 games. In these matches they have a goal statistics scored/conceded: 45-32. You can compare this with overall results below.

There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.

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Lucchese form and stats

Overall Serie C: Girone B statistics at home this season for Lucchese are 3-2-2 (wins-draws-losses). We have seen two home losses in a row now for Lucchese, who are hoping that the phrase “third time lucky” applies to them.

Bruzzaniti was the last player to score a league goal for Lucchese and it's becoming a more and more distant memory as Lucchese haven't scored in 212 minutes.

Lucchese faced defeat in their previous match, away at Fermana (0-1).

Ahead of that match, Lucchese lost 0-2 at home to Gubbio.

It should be considered that a look at the 10 most recent league matches reveals that 8 of them qualified as a both teams not to score result (only one or none of the teams scored a goal).

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

Lucchese are certainly not overdoing their scoring at home in league matches, having created 8 goals in 7 games.

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Cesena form and stats

Cesena have an excellent away record in the Serie C: Girone B so far with 4-2-1 from 7 games.

Cesena play their second away game in a row, but can be confident going into this one after the 1-0 victory visiting Olbia (placed 19th).

A 0-1 loss hosting Ancona before that.

Look out: 9 of the last 10 league games involving this club have had only one (or no) side scoring (Both Teams to Score NO in the betting world).

A new game in only four days for Cesena, the Serie C: Girone B home match versus San Donato Tavarnelle. Busy days.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Cesena as they have only managed to score 6 times from 7 away games in the league. The Cesena defense is a tough nut to crack, having conceded less than half a goal per away game on average ({2 goals} in 7 games).

Head 2 Head

Lucchese-Cesena H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Lucchese zero wins, Cesena two wins, one draw. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5).

Top Goalscorers

CesenaS. Corazza
S. Corazza
8 goals
LuccheseA. Bianchimano
A. Bianchimano
4 goals
CesenaP. Udoh
P. Udoh
4 goals

Lucchese missing players

Cesena missing players

Lucchese Cesena
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
15 7 1 Played P 1 7 15
6 3 0 Won W 1 4 8
3 2 0 Drew D 0 2 4
6 2 1 Lost L 0 1 3
14 8 0 Scored S 1 6 20
13 7 2 Conceded C 0 2 8
87% 86% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 71% 87%
53% 71% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 0% 29% 60%
33% 43% 0% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 14% 33%
7% 14% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 0% 7%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 0%
40% 57% 0% BTTS BTTS 0% 0% 27%
40% 29% 0% Clean Sheets C S 100% 86% 60%
33% 29% 100% Failed to Score F T 0% 43% 27%
 
3.8 4.9 3 Corners for (avg) C F 8 6.3 5.8
4.9 4 3 Corners against (avg) C A 2 2.6 2.5
3.1 3.1 5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 6 3.7 3.3
1 1 1 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8.4 9.9 5 Shots (avg) S ( 12 9.1 12.1
2.9 3.4 1 Shots on Target (avg) S O 6 4.6 5.1
33% 33% 0% Goal Efficiency G E 17% 19% 26%
 
9.3 9.7 12 Shots against (avg) S A 6 5.1 6.4
3.2 2.7 3 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 2 1.1 1.7
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Cesena have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
  • Cesena have the fewest conceded goals (2) away in Serie C: Girone B
  • Cesena have the most clean sheets (6) away in Serie C: Girone B
  • Cesena have the the best goal difference (+12) in Serie C: Girone B
  • Cesena have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded.
  • Lucchese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Lucchese 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 Reggiana 15 9 3 3 22 11 8 6 1 1 15 3 7 3 2 2 7 8 11 30
2 Gubbio 15 9 2 4 21 12 8 4 1 3 11 7 7 5 1 1 10 5 9 29
3 Virtus Entella 15 8 5 2 17 12 8 4 3 1 8 6 7 4 2 1 9 6 5 29
4 Cesena 15 8 4 3 20 8 8 4 2 2 14 6 7 4 2 1 6 2 12 28
5 Siena 15 7 5 3 16 6 7 3 3 1 5 1 8 4 2 2 11 5 10 26
6 Carrarese 15 8 2 5 19 15 7 5 1 1 11 5 8 3 1 4 8 10 4 26
7 Ancona 15 7 4 4 23 16 8 4 2 2 10 7 7 3 2 2 13 9 7 25
8 Fiorenzuola 15 8 1 6 16 9 8 5 1 2 10 2 7 3 0 4 6 7 7 25
9 Pontedera 15 6 6 3 16 14 7 3 3 1 6 5 8 3 3 2 10 9 2 24
10 Rimini 15 6 4 5 21 12 7 3 2 2 14 5 8 3 2 3 7 7 9 22
11 Lucchese 15 6 3 6 14 13 7 3 2 2 8 7 8 3 1 4 6 6 1 21
12 Sassari Torres 15 3 8 4 13 13 7 2 3 2 8 8 8 1 5 2 5 5 0 17
13 Recanatese 15 3 6 6 10 15 7 1 3 3 3 6 8 2 3 3 7 9 -5 15
14 Vis Pesaro 15 3 6 6 8 20 7 2 2 3 3 7 8 1 4 3 5 13 -12 15
15 Fermana 15 2 8 5 13 16 8 2 4 2 6 5 7 0 4 3 7 11 -3 14
16 Imolese 15 4 2 9 9 25 8 3 0 5 6 13 7 1 2 4 3 12 -16 14
17 Montevarchi 15 3 4 8 11 21 7 1 4 2 6 9 8 2 0 6 5 12 -10 13
18 Alessandria 15 3 4 8 8 18 7 1 1 5 5 11 8 2 3 3 3 7 -10 13
19 Olbia 15 2 5 8 10 20 8 1 2 5 7 13 7 1 3 3 3 7 -10 11
20 San Donato Tavarnelle 15 1 6 8 10 21 8 0 4 4 5 10 7 1 2 4 5 11 -11 9

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.