📏 Form Guide

Cosenza

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Cosenza will be looking for another win after the 0-4 Serie B victory against Reggiana.

In that game, Cosenza had 41% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. For Cosenza, the goals were scored by Tommaso D'Orazio (6'), Gennaro Tutino (44') and Francesco Forte (82', 90'). For their opponents, Reggiana got 18 shots at goal with 3 on target.

William Viali's Cosenza have hit the target a sum total of 8 times in their prior 6 outings. The corresponding number of goals that have been scored against them in those same games stands at 6.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Cosenza:

• have not registered a win against AS Bari in their previous 6 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 6 league games. Their fans aren't happy.

AS Bari

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In the game prior to this, AS Bari drew 1-1 in the Serie B tie with Pisa.

In that match, AS Bari managed 52% possession and 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target. The only player to score for AS Bari was George Puşcaş (60'). For their opponents, Pisa got 8 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. Arturo Calabresi (3') scored for Pisa.

The numbers tell their own story, and AS Bari have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in all. Defensively, AS Bari have not been doing too well. Previous results aside, time will tell whether the trend shall be maintained in this upcoming match or not.

Analysis of their past results shows that AS Bari:

• haven't been beaten by Cosenza in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• are without an away win for the past 11 league matches. A poor run.

👥 Head to head

A study of their past head to head meetings going back to 05/05/2002 shows that these encounters have not been fruitful for Cosenza. They’ve not managed to register any wins at all whereas AS Bari have managed to find a way, running out winners in 83 per cent of those games where they have faced each other.

An aggregate of 8 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 1 of them from Bruzi and 7 netted by Galletti. The average number of goals per game works out to 1.33.

The previous league game between these clubs was Serie B match day 18 on 23/12/2023 and the score finished AS Bari 0-0 Cosenza.

On that occasion, AS Bari had 55% possession and 16 shots at goal with 4 of them on target.

Cosenza had 14 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Matteo Gualtieri.

📋 Team News: Cosenza

Looking at personnel, there is just the lone fitness concern for the Cosenza boss William Viali to be concerned about from an otherwise fully-primed set of players. Pietro Martino (Achilles tendon rupture) will miss out. Players who are serving a ban and are therefore ineligible to play are Idriz Voca and Mateusz Praszelik.

In all likelihood, Bruzi will possibly make use of the 4-3-3 formation in the match, handing starts to Alessandro Micai, Michele Camporese, Andrea Meroni, Michael Venturi, Tommaso D'Orazio, Giacomo Calo, Simone Mazzocchi, Federico Zuccon, Manuel Marras, Mirko Antonucci and Gennaro Tutino.

📰 Team News: AS Bari

With a fully injury-free squad ready to go, the AS Bari boss Giuseppe Iachini has no fitness worries at all before this game.

We’re of the thinking that Galletti seem most likely to begin the game with a 4-3-2-1 lineup, going with Brenno Costa, Mehdi Dorval, Valerio Di Cesare, Francesco Vicari, Giacomo Ricci, Mattia Maita, Ahmad Benali, Giuseppe Sibilli, Yayah Kallon, Marco Nasti and Gregorio Morachioli.

💡 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that AS Bari must be fancied to find the back of the net against this Cosenza outfit, although it may not quite be as many as the goals that they could concede.

We are anticipating a 2-1 winning margin for Cosenza at full-time. There looks to be little in this one.

Our expert partners are tipping over 1.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Andre Moura, 14:04 27/04/2024