Parma, 26 October 2021 – Cittadella form the next opponents for the Crociati on the tenth matchday of Serie BKT. Let’s take a look at some of the key statistics and trivia heading into this match:
- Parma are unbeaten in four Serie B matches against Cittadella (2W, 2D): the last win for the Emilians (2-1) dates back to November 2017 at the home of the Venetians.
- After four straight victories against Emilia-Romagna sides in Serie B, Cittadella have picked up a solitary point in their last three games against these opponents in the second division.
- Having won five of their previous six home games (1D), Cittadella have only picked up one point in their last two Serie B matches at the Tombolato, drawing 0-0 against SPAL in their most recent match; the last time that they recorded two consecutive 0-0 results at home in the second division dates back to March 2015.
- Cittadella haven’t conceded a goal in seven of the last eleven games (64%) played at the Tombolato in the league (excluding playoffs): a record of home clean sheets in Serie B in the period since last March.
- Cittadella have lost four of their first nine games (4W, 1D) this season; they have not suffered five defeats in their first ten matches of a Serie B season since 2017/18.
- Parma haven’t won in six league games (3D, 3L); the Crociati have not gone this long without a victory in continuous Serie B matches since February 1990 (seven).
- Parma find themselves with ten points in the standings after nine league games: only one more point than in Serie A at this point of last season.
- In the nine games played for Cittadella in this Serie B, Orji Okwonkwo has scored five goals: the forward had only scored once in all of his previous 25 matches in the second division wearing the shirts of Reggina and Brescia.
- Franco Vázquez is the only player in Serie B this season to have scored with his head, as well as both his right and left foot.
- The first of two braces scored by Roberto Inglese in Serie B came against Cittadella, in November 2014, when he played for Carpi.