Venezia – Padova SOCCER PICKS
Venezia and Calcio Padova face at Stadio Pierluigi Penzo, in a match for the 21st round of Serie B. Calcio Padova won at home by (1-0) the last time they met in this edition of the league, at 01 -09-2018. The history of recent direct confrontations is favorable to the visiting team, which records 2 wins and 1 loss in the last 3 matches. In this match the home factor may be decisive, since both teams present considerable differences in the results obtained at home and as a visitor.
Venezia:
After 5 wins, 7 draws and 7 losses, the home team is currently in the 13 th position of the league, with 22 points won. In the penultimate match, they tied in an away match against Carpi, by (1-1). In the last match, they tied in an away match against Spezia, by (1-1). This is a team that usually makes good use of the home advantage, stronger with the help of its supporters, since in the last 30 matches they register 4 wins, 5 draws and 6 losses in away matches, with 13 goals scored and 15 conceded; against 7 wins, 5 draws and 3 losses at their stadium, with 19 goals scored and 11 conceded. For the championship, Venezia won 15 points out of 27 possible points, after 4 wins, 3 draws and 2 losses in the last 9 home matches. The team has conceded goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, so they have not presented great defensive solidity, but their offense has scored consistently, as they have scored goals in 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their home matches for this competition there is a tendency for few goals, since 7 of the last 9 matches have ended with Under 2,5 goals. In 19 games in this competition, he never got the comeback in the 9 games in which he suffered the first goal.
The Venezia fell a lot of performance in the last days, it does not win 5 games, in which it tied 3 and it lost 2, and it goes in search of a recovery, because it is approaching dangerously to the zone of reduction. The team has a good quality defense, which suffered only 20 goals and is the fourth best of the competition, while the attack, on the other hand, scored only 18 goals and is the fourth worst in the championship, being a team that plays a lot closed, but on account of that it has little offensive volume. At home, as in Sunday’s game, Venezia needs to rediscover its best football, it does not win 2 games ago and it tends to favor closed games, so 6 of the last 7 games in this type of situation had a maximum of 2 goals in the final score. For the confrontation with Calcio Padova, coach Walter Zenga has no problems in the team considered as a starter and goes to the field with maximum force.
Calcio Padova:
After 3 wins, 6 draws and 10 losses, the away team is currently in the 18 th position, with 15 points won. In the last match, they have won at home against Hellas Verona by (3-0), after in the previous match they have tied tied in an away match against Livorno, by (1-1). This is a team that usually makes good use of the home advantage, stronger with the help of its supporters, since in the last 30 matches they register 2 wins, 3 draws and 10 losses in away matches; against 6 victories, 6 draws and 3 defeats in their stadium. For the championship, Calcio Padova won 5 points out of 30 possible, after 1 win, 2 draws and 7 losses in the last 10 home matches. In their away league matches the most frequent result at half-time was the 0-1 (4 out of 9 matches). They have not been very strong defensively, since they have suffered goals in 8 of the last 10 matches, but their offense has scored frequently, since they have scored goals in 7 of the last 10 matches for this competition. In their home matches there is a tendency for goals, since 8 of the last 10 matches for this competition have ended with Over 2,5 goals. In 19 matches in this competition, they only won 1 comeback in the 9 matches they suffered the first goal.
Calcio Padova is making a disastrous campaign in Serie B, but finished a series of 6 games without winning with a good win on the last day and goes in search of another positive result to try to get out of the last positions. The team has a low quality attack, which scored 21 goals and is only the ninth best of the competition, but the big problem is their defense of great fragility, which suffered 31 goals and is the second worst, so much so that He suffered goals in only one of the last eight games. At home, as in this Sunday’s game, Calcio Padova usually plays fairly open games, so much so that 9 of their 10 games as visitors had goals from both teams, as it adopts an offensive stance, even far from their domains, but it ends leaving many spaces behind.
