📏 Form Guide

Cremonese

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Cremonese will be looking for an improved result here following the 2-1 Serie B loss in their previous game against Venezia.

In that game, Cremonese managed 59% possession and 14 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Cremonese was Franco Vázquez (24'). Venezia got 8 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Christian Gytkjær (48') and Bjarki Steinn Bjarkason (76') scored for Venezia.

It’s been a rare occasion in recent times where Cremonese haven’t conceded. It will be a concern for them that Cremonese have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 clashes, giving up 8 goals on the way.

Their previous form shows that Cremonese:

• have not won against Pisa in their last 3 league matches.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league games.

Pisa

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In their last game, Pisa drew 2-2 in the Serie B match with Catanzaro.

In that game, Pisa had 47% possession and 19 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Pisa, goals were scored by Stefano Moreo (74') and Marius Marin (81'). Catanzaro had 2 attempts on goal with 2 on target. Simone Pontisso (2') and Giuseppe Ambrosino (63') scored for Catanzaro.

Over the course of their previous half-dozen outings, Pisa have helped themselves to the sum of 12 goals. Pisa have also not failed to score in every single one of those games. During that period, their defenders have had 13 goals scored by their opponents. We shall soon see whether or not that trend will end up being sustained here.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Pisa:

• haven't won against Cremonese when they've played them away from home in the last 2 league matches.
• are without an away win for the past 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

Checking on their most recent head-to-head meetings dating back to 31/01/2020 shows us that Cremonese have won 1 of these & Pisa 2, with the tally of drawn matches being 3.

A sum of 17 goals were yielded between them in these games, with 7 for Grigiorossi and 10 belonging to Nerazzurri. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.83.

The last league meeting between these sides was Serie B match day 15 on 02/12/2023 which finished with the scoreline of Pisa 0-0 Cremonese.

In that match, Pisa managed 53% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

Cremonese had 10 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Ivano Pezzuto.

🗞️ Team News: Cremonese

There aren’t many personnel worries, with just a single fitness concern for the Cremonese manager Giovanni Stroppa to contend with thanks to an almost full-strength set of players. Mouhamadou Sarr (Cruciate ligament tear) will miss out.

It looks as if Grigiorossi should use the 3-5-1-1 formation for this one with Gianluca Saro, Valentin Antov, Matteo Bianchetti, Luka Lochoshvili, Luca Zanimacchia, Michele Collocolo, Michele Castagnetti, C. Monginda Pickel, Leonardo Sernicola, Franco Vazquez and Massimo Coda.

📋 Team News: Pisa

Owing to a fully healthy group to choose from, the Pisa manager Alberto Aquilani has zero fitness concerns at all coming into this match.

We are inclined to think that Nerazzurri will likely make use of a 4-2-3-1 system, starting Nicolas, Tommaso Barbieri, Antonio Caracciolo, Simone Canestrelli, Pietro Beruatto, Tomás Esteves, Marius Marin, Alessandro Arena, Mattia Valoti, Marco D'Alessandro and Nicholas Bonfanti.

⚡ Prediction

In this game, Pisa will likely be able to find the net against this Cremonese side, but it probably shouldn’t be enough to avoid a loss.

We’re going for a narrow 2-1 advantage for Cremonese by the time that the referee blows the final whistle. Could easily see this go either way.

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

Lucas Pereira, 10:20 01/05/2024