Crotone vs Spal Prediction, Betting Tips and Preview
Crotone take on Spal in Serie A action this Sunday. Read the match predictions to find out why we’ve tipped the home side to collect three points.
Crotone v SPAL 1907 Ferrara TIPS
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Crotone vs Spal Preview
Crotone‘s unbeaten run of four games, where they picked up points against the likes of Inter Milan and Atlanta, came to an end on Sunday when a late goal by Cheick Diabaté saw them suffer a 3-2 defeat to the hands of bottom of the league Benevento. It was a disappointing result for Walter Zenga’s men as a win would have seen them climb to 16th in the table and 7 points ahead of the bottom three. However, they will take confidence from their recent form which has seen them find the net eight times in their last five matches. A win on Sunday is another chance to widen the gap between themselves and the visitors and bring their home form up to four wins from their last five.
Midfielder Adrian Stoian is the only absentee for Crotone on Sunday and so Zenga will have a near-full-strength squad to choose from.
Spal are without a win in their last eight games and have only claimed victory once in their last fifteen which was against rock-bottom Benevento. They are without a goal in their last three and Leonardo Semplici will have to find goals from somewhere if his team are to avoid a swift drop back down into Serie B.
Semplici will no-doubt be firing his squad up for this match as picking up three points would see them just one point from safety and could be a major turning point in their season.
Spal striker Marco Borriello is their only player who is available for the trip to Stadio Ezio Scida and they should see the return of left-back Federico Mattiello following his suspension.
Crotone vs Spal Betting Tips
- Crotone have won 2 drawn 3 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches
- Spal have won 1 drawn 4 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Crotone have scored an average of 1 goal and conceded an average of 1.4 goals per game
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Spal have scored an average of 1 goal and conceded an average of 2.1 goals per game
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 4 of Crotone’s previous 10 matches
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 5 of Spal’s previous 10 matches
Crotone vs Spal Predictions
This is a six-point game for both sides and could potentially decide which club remains in Serie A next season. Crotone are in better form and have been able to find the net in recent games whereas Spal are struggling for goals and have been poor on the road. With both sides averaging just one goal from their last ten matches, under 2.5 goals seems to have value. A single goal could decide the outcome of the game and with the home advantage, Crotone are favourites to take the three points.
Team Lineups
| Crotone | SPAL 2013 |
|---|---|
| 4-3-3 | 3-5-2 |
| Goalkeeper | |
| Alex Cordaz |
Alex Meret |
| Defenders | |
| Mario Sampirisi Federico Ceccherini Marco Capuano Bruno Martella |
Thiago Cionek Francesco Vicari Lorenco Simic |
| Midfielders | |
| Rolando Mandragora Ahmad Benali Andrea Barberis |
Pasquale Schiattarella Jasmin Kurtic Federico Mattiello Manuel Lazzari Alberto Grassi |
| Forwards | |
| Andrea Nalini Federico Ricci Ante Budimir |
Mirko Antenucci Alberto Paloschi |
| Substitutes | |
| Giovanni Crociata Daniel Pavlovic Arlind Ajeti Aniello Viscovo Niccolo Zanellato Simy Marcus Rohden Marcello Trotta Mariano Julio Izco Marco Davide Faraoni Moussa Diaby |
Everton Pa Konate Filippo Costa Alfred Gomis Sauli Vaeisaenen Federico Viviani Gabriele Marchegiani Bartosz Salamon Boukari Drame Federico Bonazzoli Mattia Vitale Sergio Floccari |
| Coach | |
| Walter Zenga |
Leonardo Semplici |
RECENT Head To Head
Serie A
Head to Head Statistics
Last1 matches
| Crotone | SPAL 2013 |
|---|---|
| Wins | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Corners | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Fouls | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Shots | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Shots on Target | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Yellow Cards | |
| 0 | 0 |
| Red Cards | |
| 0 | 0 |
Spal were only promoted into Serie A this season with Crotone being promoted in 2016 and this is the first season the two teams have been in the same league. As a result, they have only met once which ended in a 1-1 draw last October.
LiveCrotone vSPAL 2013 Updates
| Mario Sampirisi | 23' |
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| 30' | Francesco Vicari | |
| 37' | Mirko Antenucci | |
| Ante Budimir | 49' |
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| 50' | Thiago Cionek | |
| 51' | Lorenco Simic | |
| 60' | Alberto Paloschi | |
| in Marcello Trotta out Andrea Barberis | 61' |
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| in Marco Davide Faraoni out Mario Sampirisi | 65' |
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| in Simy out Federico Ricci | 76' |
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| 76' | in Boukari Drame out Mirko Antenucci | |
| 81' | out Pasquale Schiattarella in Bartosz Salamon | |
| 81' | Alberto Paloschi | |
| 82' | Pasquale Schiattarella | |
| Ante Budimir | 86' |
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| 89' | in Sergio Floccari out Alberto Paloschi |
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