Serie C: Girone C duel: Close contest expected between Paganese and Foggia

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Competition: Italy Serie C: Girone C
Competition: Wed 16.March
Match begins: 20:00 (UTC)
Venue: Stadio Marcello Torre (5093 seats)

Paganese - Foggia in Serie C: Girone C: Stats, team lineups, tables, tendencies and headlines. Get our complete preview!

Insights:
  • Paganese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Foggia have the most points from losing position (13) in Serie C: Girone C

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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Paganese form and stats

When playing at home in the Serie C: Girone C, Paganese have managed 7 wins, 2 draws and suffered 6 defeats from 15 games. Two defeats in a row at home hurts for Paganese, their manager Grassadonia and the supporters. There are certain expectations for improvement.

Paganese shared the glory with Virtus Francavilla in their last match, an away game that ended all square 3-3.

Before that game, the home loss against Avellino with the scoreline 0-2.

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

The Paganese fans would probably like to see some more goals scored at their own stadium in the league, the tally being 20 in 15 matches. It's been trouble in front of goal recently, as only 2 of these goals has been scored in their last three home matches. 21 goals have been conceded.

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Foggia form and stats

The story so far for the visiting team on their Serie C: Girone C travels is 3 wins, 8 draws and 5 defeats.

Impressive finishing from Petermann and Ferrante (2) secured the home win 3-2 against Picerno in their previous game.

Before that, Foggia travelled to Taranto and returned home with a draw after the game finished 1-1.

A quick return to home after this game, as Foggia are hosting Catania in the Serie C: Girone C only four days away.

The visiting Foggia have scored more than one goal per away game in the league so far. The grand total is 17 goals from 16 games. Foggia have conceded 22 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Paganese and Foggia have faced each other already this season: Foggia - Paganese 3-0. Numbers for the former nine meetings featuring these two teams are: two wins for Paganese, two draws and five wins for Foggia. Over 2,5 goals: six times; under 2,5 goals: three games.

Top Goalscorers

FoggiaJ. Ferrante
J. Ferrante
14 goals
FoggiaA. Curcio
A. Curcio
9 goals
PaganeseM. Firenze
M. Firenze
6 goals

Paganese missing players

Foggia missing players

Paganese Foggia
Total Home vs mid Statistics Stat vs low Away Total
30 15 5 Played P 5 16 31
8 7 2 Won W 1 3 11
6 2 1 Drew D 3 8 13
16 6 2 Lost L 1 5 7
30 20 6 Scored S 7 17 48
49 21 7 Conceded C 5 22 40
97% 100% 100% Over 0.5 O 0.5 100% 94% 97%
73% 80% 80% Over 1.5 O 1.5 100% 88% 87%
47% 53% 60% Over 2.5 O 2.5 40% 44% 48%
13% 13% 20% Over 3.5 O 3.5 0% 19% 32%
10% 7% 0% Over 4.5 O 4.5 0% 0% 13%
43% 53% 60% BTTS BTTS 80% 69% 71%
17% 20% 20% Clean Sheets C S 20% 19% 19%
43% 27% 20% Failed to Score F T 0% 19% 13%
 
3.4 3 2.4 Corners for (avg) C F 4.4 5.4 4.9
5.5 6 6.8 Corners against (avg) C A 4.6 4.9 4.8
3.1 3.5 2.8 Yellow cards (avg) Y C 2.6 2.6 2.5
8 3 2 Red cards R C 1 2 2
 
8.2 9.3 9 Shots (avg) S ( 10 10.6 11
3.3 3.5 3.4 Shots on Target (avg) S O 4 3.6 4.2
30% 38% 35% Goal Efficiency G E 35% 30% 37%
 
12.2 12.8 13.8 Shots against (avg) S A 8.6 9.7 9.2
5 5.3 6 Shots on Target against (avg) S O 3.4 4.1 3.8
Key stats in Serie C: Girone C this season:
  • Foggia have the most points from losing position (13) in Serie C: Girone C
  • Paganese have played more matches over 2,5 goals home than away.
  • Paganese 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 Bari 1908 31 19 8 4 53 28 15 10 3 2 32 16 16 9 5 2 21 12 25 65
2 Catanzaro 31 15 10 6 41 21 16 9 5 2 27 11 15 6 5 4 14 10 20 55
3 Virtus Francavilla 31 16 6 9 43 27 16 12 3 1 33 12 15 4 3 8 10 15 16 54
4 Avellino 30 13 13 4 40 23 15 7 7 1 23 12 15 6 6 3 17 11 17 52
5 Monopoli 31 15 7 9 34 25 15 9 4 2 18 6 16 6 3 7 16 19 9 52
6 Palermo 30 14 9 7 46 28 15 11 4 0 32 6 15 3 5 7 14 22 18 51
7 Turris 31 15 3 13 49 43 15 8 0 7 26 17 16 7 3 6 23 26 6 48
8 Foggia 31 11 13 7 48 40 15 8 5 2 31 18 16 3 8 5 17 22 8 44
9 Latina 31 12 7 12 37 38 16 9 4 3 23 14 15 3 3 9 14 24 -1 43
10 Juve Stabia 31 11 9 11 36 35 16 8 5 3 22 12 15 3 4 8 14 23 1 42
11 Picerno 30 11 7 12 30 34 14 7 2 5 16 11 16 4 5 7 14 23 -4 40
12 Catania 30 12 7 11 48 43 15 7 1 7 22 20 15 5 6 4 26 23 5 39
13 Nuova Monterosi 31 9 10 12 34 43 15 6 4 5 19 19 16 3 6 7 15 24 -9 37
14 Taranto 30 8 12 10 28 33 15 6 8 1 17 9 15 2 4 9 11 24 -5 36
15 Campobasso 30 9 9 12 38 48 16 3 6 7 20 26 14 6 3 5 18 22 -10 36
16 ACR Messina 31 8 8 15 36 53 15 5 5 5 17 17 16 3 3 10 19 36 -17 32
17 Paganese 30 8 6 16 30 49 15 7 2 6 20 21 15 1 4 10 10 28 -19 30
18 Potenza Calcio 30 6 9 15 29 45 15 5 6 4 18 15 15 1 3 11 11 30 -16 27
19 Fidelis Andria 31 5 9 17 24 42 16 2 6 8 13 22 15 3 3 9 11 20 -18 24
20 Vibonese 31 3 10 18 22 48 16 3 6 7 13 20 15 0 4 11 9 28 -26 19

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.