📊 Form Guide

Ascoli

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Ascoli will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 2-1 Serie B defeat in their last game at the hands of Spezia.

In that match, Ascoli managed 48% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 on target. The scorer for Ascoli was Pablo Rodríguez (24'). At the other end, Spezia had 10 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. Luca Vignali (12') and Petko Hristov (52') scored for Spezia.

In their last 6 fixtures, Massimo Carrera's Ascoli have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a total of 8 times, with that being an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Their prior results show that Ascoli:

• haven't beaten Venezia in their last 2 matches in the league.
• are undefeated in their last 4 home league matches.

Venezia

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After a loss in their previous game against Reggiana in Serie B competition, Venezia will be aiming to make amends here.

In that game, Venezia managed 52% possession and 18 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. For Venezia, the scorers were Gianluca Busio (20'), Joel Pohjanpalo (33') and Giorgio Altare (50' Own goal). On the other side, Reggiana had 16 shots at goal with 5 of them on target. Manolo Portanova (45') and Edoardo Pieragnolo (65') scored for Reggiana.

Indicating their appetite for high-scoring encounters, goals have been celebrated 20 times in the previous six matches in which Venezia have taken to the field, yielding a mean average of 3.33 goals for each fixture. Their opponents have managed 7 from this total.

Going into this contest, Venezia remain unbeaten by Ascoli when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league games.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking at their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 28/11/2020 tells us that Ascoli have won 2 of these games and Venezia 3, with the number of drawn matches standing at 1.

A sum of 17 goals were shared by the two clubs in these games, with 8 from Bianconeri and 9 coming from Arancioneroverdi. That is an average goals per game value of 2.83.

The previous league meeting featuring the two was Serie B match day 15 on 02/12/2023 when the final score was Venezia 3-1 Ascoli.

In that match, Venezia had 60% possession and 23 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The goals were scored by Christian Gytkjær (26', 89') and Giorgio Altare (30').

For their opponents, Ascoli had 17 shots at goal with 4 on target. Patrizio Masini (47') was the scorer.

The match was refereed by Giovanni Ayroldi.

📋 Team News: Ascoli

Luka Bogdan (Knee surgery), Riccardo Gagliolo (Calf problems), Erdis Kraja (Cruciate ligament tear) and Pedro Mendes (Hamstring injury) are unavailable for Ascoli manager Massimo Carrera.

We are thinking that Bianconeri should kick off with a 3-5-2 system with Emiliano Viviano, Brian Bayeye, Giuseppe Bellusci, Valerio Mantovani, Samuel Giovane, Francesco Di Tacchio, Fabrizio Caligara, Patrizio Masini, Karim Zedadka, Pablo Rodríguez and Jeremiah Streng.

📰 Team News: Venezia

Thanks to a completely healthy group available to choose from, the Venezia manager Paolo Vanoli has no fitness worries at all coming into this game.

We believe Arancioneroverdi might play in a 3-5-2 lineup by sending out Jesse Joronen, Giorgio Altare, Jay Idzes, Marin Sverko, Antonio Candela, Gianluca Busio, Tanner Tessmann, M. Egill Ellertsson, Francesco Zampano, Joel Pohjanpalo and Nicholas Pierini.

⚡ Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Ascoli could find themselves struggling to register a score against this Venezia team who should be able to grind out a win.

Therefore, we predict a narrow 0-1 advantage for Venezia at the end of the 90.

Will be interesting to see how this one goes.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 14:02 07/04/2024