Football betting preview: Lucchese vs Imolese

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Tue 18.January
Match begins: 17:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Porta Elisa (7386 seats)

Lucchese have accomplished 4 home wins this season, Imolese have won 3 away. Who enhances their standings in this meeting?

Insights:
  • Lucchese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.

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Lucchese form and stats

Lucchese have played 9 Serie C: Girone B games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 4-3-2 (wins-draws-losses). Lucchese are splitting points both home and away, currently holding an interesting streak of four drawn games in a row.

Visconti 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 402 minutes. Nothing to worry about in defence for Lucchese, as their goalkeeper Jacopo Coletta has completely shut out the opponents for 656 minutes in the Serie C: Girone B.

Lucchese manager Pagliuca and his team return home after a 0-0 draw away versus Pistoiese (placed 18th) in the Serie C: Girone B.

The spoils were shared after 90 minutes before that, a home game that ended 0-0 versus Carrarese.

The hosts are modest favourites in this match, with the bookmakers estimating the chance of a home win at about 50% +- five percent. It's interesting to look at how Lucchese have performed under similar circumstances, so here are some numbers: When modest favourites like this (we found two games) they have won one time, drawn one and lost zero.

Lucchese are traveling soon after this match as the Serie C: Girone B match at Olbia awaits in four days.

Lucchese has scored 10 league goals at home this season, in 9 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 1 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. From these home matches, Lucchese have conceded only 7 goals. There's been improvement defensively lately, as only 0 of these goals has been conceded in their last three home matches.

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Imolese form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie C: Girone B travels is 3 wins, 2 draws and 4 defeats.

Imolese aren't clicking offensively as they have gone 241 league minutes without a goal. Padovan was the last player to find the net.

Imolese might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Pescara proved too strong as Imolese slumped to a 0-1 defeat in front of their own fans at Stadio Romeo Galli.

Before that, Imolese travelled to Vis Pesaro and returned home with a draw after the game finished 0-0.

Imolese are the outsiders in this one, but not by much. Their performance in similar games (being the away team and moderate outsiders) is seven wins, five draws and eight defeats. From a total of 20 matches.

Imolese have scored 9 goals on their travels this season, from 9 away 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. 12 goals have been conceded by Imolese in these games. It's worth mentioning that 7 of these goals has been conceded in their last three away matches.

Head 2 Head

Imolese - Lucchese 0-1 was the result in these squads' last h2h game, earlier this season. As for the last four games between these two teams, there's two Lucchese victories, one draw and one Imolese win. Over/under statistics; two of these games ended with three goals or more, two matches with two goals or less.

Top Goalscorers

LuccheseM. Semprini
M. Semprini
5 goals
LuccheseF. Fedato
F. Fedato
4 goals
ImoleseM. Angeli
M. Angeli
4 goals

Lucchese missing players

Imolese missing players

Lucchese Imolese
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 2 9 19
6 4 2 Won W 1 3 5
7 3 2 Drew D 1 2 5
6 2 0 Lost L 0 4 9
16 10 5 Scored S 2 9 24
18 7 2 Conceded C 0 12 25
68% 78% 75% Over 0.5 O 0.5 50% 78% 84%
53% 56% 50% Over 1.5 O 1.5 50% 67% 63%
37% 44% 25% Over 2.5 O 2.5 0% 44% 47%
16% 11% 25% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 32%
5% 0% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 22% 26%
37% 44% 25% BTTS BTTS 0% 22% 37%
53% 56% 75% Clean Sheets C S 100% 56% 37%
42% 22% 25% Failed to Score F T 50% 44% 42%
 
4.7 6.1 5.2 Corners for (avg) C F 3 4.7 5.2
3.9 3.6 3.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6 6.6 6.7
2.6 3.1 2.5 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 4 3 2.5
0 0 0 Red cards R C 0 2 2
 
9.3 10.1 12 Shots (avg) S ( 9.5 10 8.7
3.8 4.4 4.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.3 3.1
22% 25% 26% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 30% 41%
 
5.9 4.7 4 Shots against (avg) S A 15 12.9 11.1
2.6 2.1 0.8 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 5.2 4.8
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • 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 20 14 6 0 40 11 10 7 3 0 22 5 10 7 3 0 18 6 29 48
2 Modena 20 15 3 2 40 16 10 7 2 1 21 9 10 8 1 1 19 7 24 48
3 Cesena 20 11 6 3 27 14 10 6 3 1 14 4 10 5 3 2 13 10 13 39
4 Virtus Entella 20 9 6 5 32 22 9 5 3 1 15 7 11 4 3 4 17 15 10 33
5 Ancona 1905 20 9 5 6 35 25 11 7 1 3 21 14 9 2 4 3 14 11 10 32
6 Pescara 20 8 8 4 28 23 10 4 4 2 14 11 10 4 4 2 14 12 5 32
7 Gubbio 20 7 8 5 30 20 10 6 3 1 20 7 10 1 5 4 10 13 10 29
8 Vis Pesaro 20 6 9 5 20 24 10 4 4 2 9 9 10 2 5 3 11 15 -4 27
9 Carrarese 20 6 8 6 22 27 10 5 4 1 16 8 10 1 4 5 6 19 -5 26
10 Olbia 20 7 4 9 26 28 9 5 1 3 13 11 11 2 3 6 13 17 -2 25
11 Lucchese 19 6 7 6 16 18 9 4 3 2 10 7 10 2 4 4 6 11 -2 25
12 Pontedera 20 7 3 10 25 33 10 5 2 3 17 13 10 2 1 7 8 20 -8 24
13 Robur Siena 20 6 5 9 22 22 10 4 2 4 13 11 10 2 3 5 9 11 0 23
14 Fermana 20 5 6 9 18 26 10 4 4 2 12 10 10 1 2 7 6 16 -8 21
15 Montevarchi Calcio 20 6 3 11 21 33 10 4 2 4 15 15 10 2 1 7 6 18 -12 21
16 Teramo 20 4 7 9 18 37 10 2 3 5 8 18 10 2 4 4 10 19 -19 19
17 Imolese 19 5 5 9 24 25 10 2 3 5 15 13 9 3 2 4 9 12 -1 18
18 Pistoiese 20 3 7 10 15 30 10 2 4 4 9 14 10 1 3 6 6 16 -15 16
19 Viterbese Castrense 20 2 8 10 21 33 11 2 4 5 11 17 9 0 4 5 10 16 -12 14
20 Grosseto 20 2 8 10 12 25 10 0 6 4 5 9 10 2 2 6 7 16 -13 14

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.