📊 Form Guide

Pisa

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Pisa will be hoping to return to winning ways here after a 3-1 Serie B loss in their previous game against Como.

In that game, Pisa had 54% possession and 9 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player to score for Pisa was Tommaso Barbieri (49'). For their opponents, Como had 10 shots at goal with 6 on target. Alessandro Gabrielloni (2'), Alessandro Bellemo (10') and Patrick Cutrone (79') scored for Como.

Pisa have been on a persistent run of goalscoring form, hitting the target in one hundred percent of their last 6 games.

They’ve hit an aggregate of 8 during that time while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 10.

Going into this contest, Pisa haven't been defeated in their previous 2 home league matches.

Palermo

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Following on from a loss in their previous game against Venezia in Serie B competition, Palermo will be aiming to make amends here.

In that match, Palermo managed 55% possession and 14 shots on goal with 2 of them on target. On the other side, Venezia had 17 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Joel Pohjanpalo (18', 30') and Christian Gytkjær (92') scored for Venezia.

In a total of 5 of the previous 6 games featuring Palermo, at least three goals have been hit. The overall average number of goals per match in that time is 3.67, with the number of goals averaged by Palermo working out to 1.67. It will be interesting to find out whether or not that trend will be sustained into this next match.

👥 Head to head

The last league meeting between these sides was Serie B match day 17 on 16/12/2023 which ended up with the score at Palermo 3-2 Pisa.

That time, Palermo managed 50% possession and 17 shots on goal with 7 on target. Goals were scored by Roberto Insigne (29'), Matteo Brunori (42') and Jacopo Segre (80').

For their opponents, Pisa got 16 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Marius Marin (49') and Mattia Valoti (54') scored.

The match was refereed by Giuseppe Collu.

🗞️ Team News: Pisa

Ernesto Torregrossa (unknown injury) and Matteo Tramoni (Cruciate ligament surgery) will not be able to play for Pisa boss Alberto Aquilani.

📰 Team News: Palermo

From a largely full-strength squad, there is just the one fitness issue for the Palermo boss Eugenio Corini to be concerned with. Fabio Lucioni (Hamstring injury) won’t be playing here.

💭 Prediction

We’re of the opinion that Palermo will really need to work well to put one past this Pisa team who we reckon will just have the edge.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very competitive game with a 1-0 advantage for Pisa at the end of the 90.

Looking forward to watching this one unfold.

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

Lucas Pereira, 12:02 01/04/2024