Benevento vs Torino Serie A Match Preview or Key Statistics 📊
Torino have won both of their previous Serie A games against Benevento without conceding a goal. The Granata are the only team against which the Giallorossi have never managed to score among sides they have faced at least twice in the top-flight.
This will be only the second time that Benevento have played a Serie A game on a Friday; the previous such match came against Sassuolo this season (1-0 defeat).
Torino have drawn both of the last two times they have played a Serie A game on Friday (1-1 against Juventus in May 2019 and 3-3 against Sassuolo in October 2020).
Benevento have lost three of their last four league games (W1), this after only losing one of their previous seven Serie A matches beforehand (W3 D3).
Only Crotone (12) have conceded more goals than Benevento (11) in Serie A in 2021: the Giallorossi have conceded at least four goals in both of their last two league matches, while they have never done so three times in a row in the division.
Torino have only won two of their first 18 league games this season (D7 L9); only once in their history have they won as few games in the first half of a season in a Serie A campaign containing 20 teams (two in 2007/08, when they had 17 points).
Torino have failed to score in their last two league games, while they have not failed to find the net in three in a row since November 2014.
Only Milan (16) and Inter (12) have scored more goals from set piece situations than Benevento and Torino (both 10) in Serie A this season; Inzaghi's team have also scored the fewest goals from open play in the competition so far (11).
Benevento’s Iago Falque and Kamil Glik have both previously played for Torino. Falque played 102 games while scoring 30 goals for the Granata, while Glik scored 10 goals in 131 Serie A appearances for Torino.
Iago Falque is the only player to have scored in both previous Serie A games between Benevento and Torino: he scored Torino’s winning goal in injury time in the first such meeting in September 2017 and the opening goal in Torino’s 3-0 win in January 2018.
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