Juve Stabia and Virtus Entella meet at Stadio Comunale Romeo Menti, in a match for the 33rd matchday of Serie B. Virtus Entella won at home by (2‑0) the last time they met in this edition of the league, on 01‑12‑2019. The history of recent direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which registers 1 victory and 1 draw in the last 2 matches. Despite being a match between 13th and 10th in the table, it is actually a confrontation between the 7th ranked in home matches and the 14th in away matches.
Juve Stabia :
After 10 wins, 6 draws and 12 losses, the home team is currently in 13th position, with 36 points won. In their last match, they defeated Spezia at home by (3‑1), after in the previous match they lost by (2‑1) away, in a match against Pordenone. This is a team that tends to be more competitive at home, since they have won 26 points in their stadium, where they have scored 23 goals and suffered 21, against only 10 points away, with 12 goals scored and 22 suffered. In his last 10 home games for the championship Juve Stabia won 6, drew 2 and lost 2, so he won 20 points in 30 possible. Defensive consistency hasn’t been their best feature, as they have conceded goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, but their offense has scored consistently, as they have scored goals in 9 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 28 matches in the competition, he suffered the first goal 17 times and only got 3 comebacks.
Juve Stabia comes to this match after a 2-1 loss against Salernitana, in a game related to the thirty-second round of the Italian second league. Fracesco Forte scored the visiting team’s lone goal in a game that the locals ended up playing with nine players after the expulsions of Ramzi Aya and Lamim Jallow. With this result, the local team added the fourth consecutive defeat in this competition, where they are currently in seventeenth position with thirty-six points.
In this game against Virtus Entella, coach Fabio Caserta should keep the team 4-3-3, with Francesco Forte, Karamoko Cissé and Lugi Canotto as the main figures in the attack of the locals. For this game, the Juve Stabia coach can count on all the units.
Virtus Entella :
After 10 wins, 8 draws and 10 losses, the visiting team is currently in 10th position, with 38 points won. In their last match, they defeated Ascoli at home by (3‑0), after losing in the previous match, in a match against Trapani, by (4‑1). This is a team that tends to be more competitive at home, since they have won 13 points away and 25 in their stadium, with 19 goals scored and 25 suffered on the road, against 16 goals scored and 11 suffered at home. For the championship, the Virtus Entella conquered 8 points in 30 possible, after 2 wins, 2 draws and 6 defeats in the last 10 games that he played as a visitor. In their home league matches the most frequent final result at half-time was 0‑1 (5 in 14 games). The team allowed goals to the opponent in 8 of the last 10 matches, so it has not had great defensive strength, but its attack has marked regularly, since it has scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In 28 games in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 14 games in which he suffered the first goal. In the last 14 away matches for this competition there is 1 period that stands out: they have scored 9 of their 19 goals between minutes (76′ ‑ 90 ‘).
Virtus enters this round with a 1-1 draw, at the reception to Chievo, thus adding the second consecutive game without savoring the taste of victory in this championship, where it occupies the eleventh position, with forty-two points to four of Chievo who occupies the last wave of access to the climbing play-offs. Luca Mazzitelli opened the scoring in the twenty-five minutes in favor of the locals, but in the sixty-two minutes the visitors responded by scoring a draw through Michele Rigione.
For this game, away from home, Roberto Boscaglia’s team must adopt a more defensive posture to privilege the offensive transitions and the dead balls to reach the advantage. Cladio Morra, Alejandro Rodríguez and Andrea Schanetti must compensate for the visitors’ attack. There are no major absences for this meeting with Juve Stabia.
PREDICTION: Over 2,5 goals @ 1,89
