The league table in Serie C: Girone C tells a story about these teams so far, with Reggina leading Virtus Francavilla by 23 points. Match preview to follow:
Reggina and Virtus Francavilla should both be in good shape for this meeting, as there's been enough days for both of them to train and rest since their last matches.
Reggina form and stats
This stadium, Oreste Granillo, has been a fortress for Reggina in the Serie C: Girone C so far this season with the win-draw-loss statistic 9-0-0.
In their previous game, the manager D. Toscano led his Reggina to a defeat in the Serie C: Girone C match away at Cavese. The manager is hoping to put things right immediately here at Oreste Granillo. A strong away win before that one, visiting Sicula Leonzio and winning 2-1.
The home team are expected to win this game about three out of four times, according to the bookmaker odds. When checking the database for Reggina home games with this odds we find two games with a similar winning chance. Resulting in 2 wins, 0 draws and 0 defeats. Looking at the victories, 1 match were won by at least two goals.
Reggina are an "over 2,5 goals" team alone here at Oreste Granillo in their league games, having scored an impressive 23 goals in 9 matches. As for guarding their own goal, Reggina have only let in 3 goals at home.
Virtus Francavilla form and stats
The hunting on away grounds haven’t been very fruitful for Virtus Francavilla so far with only 10 points returning home. The records show 2-4-4 (win-draw-lose). Virtus Francavilla has lost their two previous away games and are eager to kill a negative trend in its infancy.
Virtus Francavilla's last game was the home draw against Catania (0-0). Prior to that match, the Virtus Francavilla manager B. Trocini faced defeat when travelling to Viterbese Castrense and losing 1-2.
We have done a similar check as we did with the hometeam, looking up recent matches where Virtus Francavilla played away with similar odds. This revealed two games. The visitors overcame the odds to win 0 times, 0 were draws and the home team won as expected 2 times.
Many goals are not expected from the visiting Virtus Francavilla as they have only managed to score 9 times from 10 away games in the league. 14 goals have been conceded by Virtus Francavilla in these games.
Head 2 Head
The two sides played each other earlier this season: Virtus Francavilla - Reggina 1-1. Head-2-head stats last seven meetings: 1 - 3 - 3 (Reggina wins - draws - Virtus Francavilla wins). As for goals, 1 match ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 6 had two or less.Top Goalscorers
  S. Corazza 14 goals |   F. Vázquez 7 goals |  L. Perez 7 goals |
Reggina missing players
Virtus Francavilla missing players
| Reggina | Virtus Francavilla | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 19 | 9 | 4 | Played | P | 2 | 10 | 20 |
| 14 | 9 | 4 | Won | W | 0 | 2 | 5 |
| 4 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 4 | 8 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 39 | 23 | 16 | Scored | S | 1 | 9 | 24 |
| 13 | 3 | 3 | Conceded | C | 6 | 14 | 27 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 90% | 90% |
| 84% | 67% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 70% | 70% |
| 53% | 44% | 100% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 100% | 50% | 40% |
| 16% | 33% | 75% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 50% | 20% | 20% |
| 16% | 33% | 75% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 0% | 10% |
| 53% | 33% | 75% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 60% | 60% |
| 42% | 67% | 25% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 30% | 30% |
| 5% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 20% | 20% |
| 4.7 | 6.3 | 6.8 | Corners For (avg) | C F | 3 | 3.9 | 4.7 |
| 3.6 | 2.6 | 2 | Corners Against (avg) | C A | 6 | 5.4 | 5 |
| 2.5 | 2.4 | 2 | Yellow Cards (avg) | Y C | 2 | 2.8 | 3 |
| 3 | 1 | 0 | Red Cards | R C | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 221 | 122 | 71 | Total Shots | T S | 9 | 83 | 191 |
| 77 | 43 | 26 | Shots on Target | S O | 4 | 27 | 70 |
| 51% | 53% | 62% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 25% | 33% | 34% |
- Reggina has the fewest conceded goals (13)
- Reggina has the fewest conceded goals (3) at home
- Reggina has the fewest conceded goals in the first half (6)
- Reggina has the most points (27) at home
- Reggina has the most scored goals (23) at home
- Reggina has the most scored goals (42)
- Reggina has the most scored goals in the first half (20)
- Reggina has the the best goal difference (+20) at home
- Reggina has the the best goal difference (+29)
- Reggina have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Reggina have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Virtus Francavilla have scored away.
- Reggina have scored in all their home matches so far.
- Reggina have won all their matches at home so far.
- Reggina have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Reggina have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Reggina haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
- Reggina is in the best form (5-0-1)
- Virtus Francavilla have played more matches over 2,5 goals away than home.
- Virtus Francavilla have won significantly less corners away then 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 | Reggina | 19 | 14 | 4 | 1 | 42 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 3 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 10 | 29 | 46 |
| 2 | Bari 1908 | 20 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 34 | 14 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 16 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 18 | 5 | 20 | 40 |
| 3 | Ternana | 20 | 12 | 4 | 4 | 28 | 19 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 17 | 10 | 9 | 40 |
| 4 | Potenza Calcio | 20 | 12 | 3 | 5 | 24 | 14 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 10 | 4 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 14 | 10 | 10 | 39 |
| 5 | Monopoli | 20 | 12 | 1 | 7 | 27 | 17 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 4 | 17 | 9 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 37 |
| 6 | Catanzaro | 20 | 9 | 5 | 6 | 28 | 22 | 11 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 21 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 11 | 6 | 32 |
| 7 | Catania | 20 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 29 | 30 | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 4 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 16 | 26 | -1 | 29 |
| 8 | Teramo | 20 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 22 | 23 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 15 | 11 | 10 | 2 | 3 | 5 | 7 | 12 | -1 | 28 |
| 9 | Vibonese | 20 | 6 | 9 | 5 | 38 | 26 | 9 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 20 | 5 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 18 | 21 | 12 | 27 |
| 10 | Paganese | 20 | 7 | 6 | 7 | 31 | 26 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 19 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 12 | 16 | 5 | 27 |
| 11 | Avellino | 20 | 8 | 3 | 9 | 25 | 29 | 11 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 15 | 17 | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 10 | 12 | -4 | 27 |
| 12 | Casertana | 20 | 6 | 8 | 6 | 28 | 27 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 10 | 15 | 1 | 26 |
| 13 | Viterbese Castrense | 20 | 7 | 4 | 9 | 28 | 27 | 11 | 6 | 2 | 3 | 19 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | 1 | 25 |
| 14 | Cavese | 20 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 18 | 28 | 11 | 4 | 6 | 1 | 14 | 9 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 4 | 19 | -10 | 25 |
| 15 | Virtus Francavilla | 20 | 5 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 27 | 10 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 15 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 14 | -3 | 23 |
| 16 | Picerno | 20 | 5 | 5 | 10 | 20 | 26 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 11 | 9 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 9 | 17 | -6 | 20 |
| 17 | Bisceglie | 20 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 16 | 30 | 9 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 14 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 6 | 10 | 16 | -14 | 14 |
| 18 | Rende | 20 | 3 | 5 | 12 | 14 | 36 | 11 | 3 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 13 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 23 | -22 | 14 |
| 19 | FC Rieti | 19 | 3 | 4 | 12 | 21 | 43 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 12 | 19 | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 21 | -22 | 12 |
| 20 | Sicula Leonzio | 20 | 2 | 5 | 13 | 19 | 39 | 11 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 14 | 23 | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 16 | -20 | 11 |