Cagliari vs Spezia Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔷
This will be the first Serie A meeting between Cagliari and Spezia: the Sardinians have won three of their last seven games against Ligurian sides in the top-flight (D1 L3).
Cagliari have won their last four home meetings against Ligurian sides in Serie A: only between 1974 and 1982 have they managed a longer such run (five).
Cagliari have kept a clean sheet in just one of their last seven league games, conceding at least two goals in all the other six: 16 goals conceded, an average of 2.3 per match.
Having not conceded in their last home league match, Cagliari could keep a clean sheet in consecutive home games in Serie A for the first time since October 2018.
Spezia have picked up nine points in Serie A this season: the last team to earn more points in the first nine games of their debut season in the Italian top-flight was Siena in 2003/04 (10 points).
Spezia have picked up seven points in their opening four away league games this season (W2 D1 L1): in the three points for a win era, only Chievo in 2001/02 (eight points) earned more in their first five Serie A away games, among teams in their debut in the competition.
Despite having conceded 17 goals, Cagliari are one of the only two sides (with Juventus) not to have conceded a headed league goal this term.
Cagliari and Spezia have scored the joint-most goals from corners in Serie A this season (three each).
João Pedro and Giovanni Simeone have scored 73% of Cagliari’s league goals in 2020 (24 out of 33): a record percentage among the top two scorers of a single team in Serie A this year.
Spezia’s M'Bala Nzola has been involved in the joint-most away goals in Serie A this season among players of the newly promoted sides (two goals, one assist).
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