Monopoli vs Picerno: Soccer betting preview

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone C
Competition: Thu 02.February
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Vito Simone Veneziani (8000 seats)

It's only been three days since Monopoli faced Audace Cerignola and the score was 3-1. Can they win vs Picerno?

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

Monopoli's stadium, Stadio Vito Simone Veneziani, has a grass surface. Picerno have artifical turf on their own stadium. This might or might not make a difference, and to help evaluate that we give you the recent performance numbers for Picerno when playing on grass; 12 wins, 13 draws and 13 losses from 38 matches. They have scored {39 goals} in these games and conceded 56.

It’s busy days for these teams as both were in action only a few days ago. There’s no rest for the wicked, or in this case; no rest for Monopoli and Picerno.

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Monopoli form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie C: Girone C, Monopoli have managed 6 wins, 0 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 12 games.

Monopoli enjoyed a nice away win last time out, playing at Audace Cerignola's place. The match ended 3-1.

Before that game, the 1-0 home victory against Juve Stabia.

This is expected to be a close game, with Monopoli perhaps considered small favourites due to their home advantage. Looking back at earlier matches similar to this one (expected to be close with Monopoli as a small favourite), we find 11 games. Monopoli has won 7 of these, drawn 2 and lost 2.

There's a new game coming up fairly quickly for Monopoli as they are travelling to their away game against Viterbese Castrense in the Serie C: Girone C. That match is three days after this one.

Monopoli has scored 15 league goals at home this season, in 12 matches. Monopoli's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 13 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Picerno form and stats

3-5-4 is the win-draw-loss statistic for Picerno in their Serie C: Girone C matches away.

Setola, Ceccarelli and Diop scored in Picerno's previous match, the home game against Fidelis Andria that ended 3-1.

Before that, Picerno travelled to Turris Neapolis and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 13 similar matches played by Picerno in our archives, and the results are: 5 wins for Picerno, 6 draws and 2 defeats.

After this away game Picerno return home for a Serie C: Girone C game against Juve Stabia. That game is only three sleeps after this.

Many goals are not expected from the visiting Picerno as they have only managed to score 10 times from 12 away games in the league. It's worth mentioning that 5 of these goals has been scored in their last three away matches. 14 goals have been conceded by Picerno in these games.

Head 2 Head

This happened when the squads met previously this campaign; Picerno - Monopoli 1-2. Statistics for the prior five meetings featuring these two participants are: three wins for Monopoli, one draw and one win for Picerno. Over 2,5 goals: two times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

MonopoliE. Starita
E. Starita
7 goals
PicernoE. Esposito
E. Esposito
6 goals

Monopoli missing players

Picerno missing players

Monopoli Picerno
Total Home vs top Statistics Stat vs mid Away Total
24 12 5 Played P 3 12 24
9 6 1 Won W 0 3 9
6 0 0 Drew D 2 5 8
9 6 4 Lost L 1 4 7
29 15 3 Scored S 3 10 27
25 13 7 Conceded C 4 14 25
83% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 92% 92%
67% 67% 60% Over 1.5 O 1.5 67% 50% 58%
46% 50% 40% Over 2.5 O 2.5 33% 25% 42%
17% 8% 0% Over 3.5 O 3.5 33% 25% 21%
8% 8% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 8% 4%
50% 50% 40% BTTS BTTS 67% 42% 50%
29% 25% 20% Clean Sheets C S 0% 25% 25%
38% 25% 40% Failed to Score F T 33% 42% 33%
 
4.8 5 4.4 Corners for (avg) C F 5.3 4.4 4.3
3.5 2.9 3 Corners against (avg) C A 3.7 4 3.5
2.5 2.2 3 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 3.3 2.2 2.7
4 1 0 Red cards R C 1 1 1
 
9.4 9.3 8 Shots (avg) S ( 7 7.5 8.8
3.4 3.4 2.8 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 4
36% 37% 21% Goal Efficiency G E 25% 23% 28%
 
9.3 7.7 8.4 Shots against (avg) S A 10.3 11.1 9.4
3.5 2.4 2.6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 4 3.9 3.5
Key stats in Serie C: Girone C this season:
  • Monopoli have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Monopoli haven’t played a single 0-0 game 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 Catanzaro 24 20 4 0 63 9 12 12 0 0 40 4 12 8 4 0 23 5 54 64
2 Crotone 24 17 5 2 38 17 12 10 2 0 16 2 12 7 3 2 22 15 21 56
3 Pescara 24 13 3 8 34 28 13 6 2 5 14 16 11 7 1 3 20 12 6 42
4 Juve Stabia 24 10 6 8 22 20 11 5 3 3 12 8 13 5 3 5 10 12 2 36
5 Foggia 24 10 5 9 35 31 11 5 2 4 15 15 13 5 3 5 20 16 4 35
6 Picerno 24 9 8 7 27 25 12 6 3 3 17 11 12 3 5 4 10 14 2 35
7 Audace Cerignola 24 9 7 8 30 29 13 7 3 3 21 11 11 2 4 5 9 18 1 34
8 Monopoli 24 9 6 9 29 25 12 6 0 6 15 13 12 3 6 3 14 12 4 33
9 SSC Giugliano 24 8 9 7 32 29 12 5 5 2 21 14 12 3 4 5 11 15 3 33
10 Virtus Francavilla 24 9 4 11 30 34 12 9 2 1 22 9 12 0 2 10 8 25 -4 31
11 Avellino 24 7 9 8 23 22 12 5 6 1 13 5 12 2 3 7 10 17 1 30
12 Latina 24 7 9 8 25 32 11 4 3 4 8 12 13 3 6 4 17 20 -7 30
13 Taranto 24 8 6 10 19 29 12 6 4 2 12 8 12 2 2 8 7 21 -10 30
14 Potenza Calcio 24 5 14 5 28 34 11 4 6 1 18 13 13 1 8 4 10 21 -6 29
15 Gelbison 24 6 10 8 18 23 12 4 5 3 12 11 12 2 5 5 6 12 -5 28
16 Nuova Monterosi 24 6 8 10 28 33 12 3 6 3 16 15 12 3 2 7 12 18 -5 26
17 Turris Neapolis 24 5 8 11 28 41 13 1 6 6 14 25 11 4 2 5 14 16 -13 23
18 Messina 24 6 3 15 22 37 13 5 3 5 18 16 11 1 0 10 4 21 -15 21
19 Fidelis Andria 24 3 8 13 18 35 12 3 5 4 10 13 12 0 3 9 8 22 -17 17
20 Viterbese Castrense 24 3 8 13 22 38 12 2 4 6 14 22 12 1 4 7 8 16 -16 15

Read more about Serie C: Girone C

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.