Sassuolo vs SPAL Live Stream, Predictions

📊 Form Guide

Sassuolo

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Sassuolo won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 3-1 Serie A losing effort in their last game against Juventus.

In that match, Sassuolo managed 45% possession and 10 shots on goal with 2 on target. The only player to score for Sassuolo was Grégoire Defrel (58'). Juventus had 23 shots on goal with 8 on target. Danilo (50'), Aaron Ramsey (82') and Cristiano Ronaldo (90') scored for Juventus.

It’s not been often in recent games that Sassuolo have shown defensive steel. It will be a concern for them that Sassuolo have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, leaking 14 goals during that time. We will see whether or not that trend will end up being continued on in this game.

SPAL

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SPAL will go into this match after a 1-2 Serie B win to beat Frosinone in their last outing.

In that match, SPAL had 52% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 4 on target. For SPAL, the scorers were Salvatore Esposito (40') and Alberto Paloschi (87'). On the other side, Frosinone had 17 attempts on goal with 5 on target. Grigoris Kastanos (25') was the scorer for Frosinone.

Throughout their 6 previous matches, Pasquale Marino's SPAL have managed to stick the ball in the net 5 times - yielding them the goals per game average of 0.83.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their past head to head results going back to 22/10/2017 shows that these fixtures have been miserable for SPAL. They’ve not managed to come away with any wins whatsoever whereas Sassuolo have dominated them, beating them in 67 per cent of those ties.

A total of 13 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 10 for Sassuolo and 3 belonging to SPAL. That is an average goals per game value of 2.17.

The previous league game between the two was Serie A match day 23 on 09/02/2020 and the score finished SPAL 1-2 Sassuolo.

That time, SPAL managed 37% possession and 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Their only player to score was Kevin Bonifazi (23').

At the other end, Sassuolo got 22 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. Francesco Caputo (65') and Jérémie Boga (90') scored.

The referee was Piero Giacomelli.

📰 Team News: Sassuolo

Filippo Romagna (Patella rupture) and Domenico Berardi (Muscular problems) won’t be able to feature for Sassuolo manager Roberto De Zerbi.

ℹ️ Team News: SPAL

Thanks to a fully injury-free squad to choose from, SPAL manager Pasquale Marino has zero fitness worries to report before this game.

🧠 Prediction

In our view, Sassuolo will probably be able to create a high number of chances and successful shots on target.

However, SPAL could well struggle finding the net themselves - but, we do see them being dangerous at times.

We’re tipping a fairly comfortable 3-1 win for Sassuolo at the end of the match.

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

Andre Moura, 00:05 10/01/2021