📏 Form Guide

Spezia

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Spezia head into this match coming off the back of a 0-0 Serie B stalemate against Brescia.

In that match, Spezia had 42% possession and 10 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Brescia got 14 shots at goal with 1 of them on target.

Spezia haven’t exactly had impressive attacking statistics of late. Their sum of goals equals just 3 versus opposing sides over their last 6 fixtures. In those meetings, Spezia have also seen the tally of goals against them total 4.

Going into this game, the form guide shows that Spezia:

• haven't lost in the league to Palermo in their previous 4 games.
• have not beaten Palermo in their previous 6 matches in the league.
• are without a home win in the past 2 league matches.

Palermo

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Following on from being beaten in their last game against Reggiana in Serie B competition, Palermo and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Palermo managed 55% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Palermo was Matteo Brunori (35'). For their opponents, Reggiana got 11 shots on goal with 5 of them on target. Manolo Portanova (52') and Paolo Rozzio (66') scored for Reggiana.

The stats don’t lie, and Palermo have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, with opponents netting 12 goals overall. Defensively, Palermo could really do with shoring things up. While that may be of interest, time will tell if the trend will persist in this upcoming match.

Taking a look at their past results, Palermo:

• haven't been beaten by Spezia when they have played them away from home in the previous 2 league matches.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

There have been a high number of draws between the two sides. In their head to head clashes starting from 30/11/2016, fans have seen 5 of these. That’s an unusually high 83 per cent of games finishing all-square.

In all, 12 goals were scored between the two sides in this period, with 5 of them for Spezia and 7 belonging to Rosaneri. That’s an average goals per game figure of 2.

The last league game between the two was Serie B match day 10 on 23/10/2023 when the final score was Palermo 2-2 Spezia.

That time, Palermo had 55% possession and 16 shots at goal with 7 of them on target. The scorers were Leonardo Mancuso (73') and Leo Štulac (104').

At the other end, Spezia had 10 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Arkadiusz Reca (31') and Francesco Pio Esposito (70') scored.

The referee was Francesco Fourneau.

📰 Team News: Spezia

The Spezia manager Luca D'Angelo will be thankful to have no fitness concerns to speak of before this clash thanks to a fully injury-free squad available to select from.

🗞️ Team News: Palermo

Palermo boss Michele Mignani has not got a full squad to pick from. Mamadou Coulibaly (Muscle fatigue), Aljosa Vasic (Bone edema), Francesco Di Mariano (Knock) and Giuseppe Aurelio (Calf muscle tear) are names that won’t be on the team sheet.

⚡ Prediction

Our assessment here is that Palermo will have their work cut out to be putting a goal past this Spezia outfit who we think might well score one, at least.

Therefore, we predict a good tussle with a 1-0 advantage for Spezia when the full-time whistle blows.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

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

Peter Guest, 12:09 01/05/2024