Football news and preview: Rimini favourites when San Donato Tavarnelle arrive

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone B
Competition: Fri 23.December
Match begins: 16:30 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Romeo Neri (9768 seats)

Most would pick Rimini in this fixture versus San Donato Tavarnelle, but the visitors will fight to the finish. Here's our match guide!

Insights:
  • Rimini have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • San Donato Tavarnelle have the fewest clean sheets (2) 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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Rimini form and stats

5-2-2 (win-draw-lost) are the Serie C: Girone B numbers at home for Rimini so far this season. The opportunity of a proper winning streak is there for the hosts, with two straight wins here at Stadio Romeo Neri.

A good away victory last time out for Rimini, who won 1-0 against Montevarchi (placed 20th).

Ahead of that match, Rimini won a home game hosting Ancona (2-1).

Goals decide football matches and Rimini are scoring many of them at home; 19 on target from 9 league matches. From these home matches, Rimini have conceded only 7 goals.

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San Donato Tavarnelle form and stats

There's been little loot from San Donato Tavarnelle's travels as they have only collected 8 points from 9 away games in the Serie C: Girone B. San Donato Tavarnelle only have 2 wins to counter their 5 defeats and 2 draws.

Two away matches in a row for San Donato Tavarnelle, whose coach Magrini could celebrate last time after the win against Fiorenzuola.

Preceding that match was the 0-0 draw at home vs Imolese.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of San Donato Tavarnelle when being an outsider away as they are today, we find 4 matches with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 0 and winning 3 games.

Tavarnelle have conceded 15 goals in these games.

Head 2 Head

The last H2H game ended San Donato Tavarnelle - Rimini 1-1, earlier this season. Head-2-head stats last two meetings: zero - two - zero (Rimini wins - draws - San Donato Tavarnelle wins). As for goals, zero matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), two had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

RiminiC. Santini
C. Santini
11 goals
RiminiA. Delcarro
A. Delcarro
6 goals
San Donato TavarnelleF. Russo
F. Russo
5 goals

Rimini missing players

San Donato Tavarnelle missing players

Rimini San Donato Tavarnelle
Total Home vs low Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
19 9 4 Played P 3 9 19
9 5 4 Won W 1 2 3
4 2 0 Drew D 1 2 7
6 2 0 Lost L 1 5 9
28 19 14 Scored S 3 9 17
16 7 1 Conceded C 5 15 26
95% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 100% 89%
68% 78% 100% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 78% 74%
47% 67% 100% Over 2.5 O 2.5 67% 56% 42%
16% 33% 50% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 22% 16%
5% 11% 25% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 11% 5%
42% 44% 25% BTTS BTTS 67% 56% 58%
37% 33% 75% Clean Sheets C S 0% 0% 11%
26% 22% 0% Failed to Score F T 33% 44% 42%
 
4.5 4.7 5.8 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 3.9 4.4
6.3 5.4 4.5 Corners against (avg) C A 6.3 5.7 6
2.6 2.6 2.2 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 5 2.9 2.5
3 2 0 Red cards R C 4 5 5
 
8.6 11.4 14.8 Shots (avg) S ( 6.7 9.2 10.3
3.2 4.6 5.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 2.3 3.8 4.1
47% 46% 61% Goal Efficiency G E 43% 26% 22%
 
13.1 13.2 12.8 Shots against (avg) S A 7.3 10.6 11.1
5 4.6 4.2 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.3 4.6 4.6
Key stats in Serie C: Girone B this season:
  • Rimini have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Rimini have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded at home.
  • Rimini have scored at least twice as many goals at home as San Donato Tavarnelle have scored away.
  • Rimini haven’t played a single 0-0 game at home.
  • San Donato Tavarnelle have failed to keep a clean sheet in all their away matches.
  • San Donato Tavarnelle have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
  • San Donato Tavarnelle have the fewest clean sheets (2) in Serie C: Girone B
  • San Donato Tavarnelle have the most dropped points from leading position (14) in Serie C: Girone B
  • San Donato Tavarnelle haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 19 12 4 3 27 11 9 6 2 1 15 3 10 6 2 2 12 8 16 40
2 Gubbio 19 12 3 4 28 12 10 6 1 3 14 7 9 6 2 1 14 5 16 39
3 Cesena 19 11 4 4 28 13 10 6 2 2 20 9 9 5 2 2 8 4 15 37
4 Pontedera 19 9 6 4 22 18 9 5 3 1 10 7 10 4 3 3 12 11 4 33
5 Virtus Entella 19 9 6 4 22 18 10 4 4 2 10 9 9 5 2 2 12 9 4 33
6 Fiorenzuola 19 10 2 7 21 13 10 6 1 3 13 5 9 4 1 4 8 8 8 32
7 Carrarese 19 10 2 7 26 19 10 7 1 2 16 6 9 3 1 5 10 13 7 32
8 Rimini 19 9 4 6 28 16 9 5 2 2 19 7 10 4 2 4 9 9 12 31
9 Ancona 19 9 4 6 31 20 10 6 2 2 17 7 9 3 2 4 14 13 11 31
10 Siena 19 8 6 5 21 13 9 3 4 2 8 5 10 5 2 3 13 8 8 30
11 Lucchese 19 8 5 6 20 17 9 5 2 2 12 9 10 3 3 4 8 8 3 29
12 Sassari Torres 19 4 9 6 14 15 9 2 4 3 8 9 10 2 5 3 6 6 -1 21
13 Fermana 19 4 8 7 18 23 10 3 4 3 7 8 9 1 4 4 11 15 -5 20
14 San Donato Tavarnelle 19 3 7 9 17 26 10 1 5 4 8 11 9 2 2 5 9 15 -9 16
15 Recanatese 19 3 7 9 12 23 9 1 3 5 4 9 10 2 4 4 8 14 -11 16
16 Imolese 19 4 4 11 10 29 10 3 1 6 6 14 9 1 3 5 4 15 -19 16
17 Vis Pesaro 19 3 7 9 9 29 9 2 2 5 4 13 10 1 5 4 5 16 -20 16
18 Olbia 19 2 9 8 13 23 10 1 4 5 9 15 9 1 5 3 4 8 -10 15
19 Alessandria 19 3 6 10 12 27 9 1 3 5 8 14 10 2 3 5 4 13 -15 15
20 Montevarchi 19 3 5 11 15 29 9 1 4 4 7 12 10 2 1 7 8 17 -14 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.