PREMATCH
Parma – Cremonese is valid for matchday number 37 of the 2023/2024 Serie B championship.
The match is scheduled for May 5th at 3:00 pm at the Ennio Tardini stadium in Parma.
The referee for Parma – Cremonese will be Matteo Gualtieri. Paolo Silvio Mazzoleni will be at VAR instead.
Parma is currently 1st in the table with 75 points (the result of 21 wins, 12 draws and 4 defeats); Cremonese, on the other hand, is 4th in the standings with 64 points (the result of 18 wins, 10 draws and 9 defeats).
Parma scored 64 goals and conceded 33; Cremonese scored 46 goals and conceded 31.
The first leg match Cremonese – Parma was played on 1 October 2023 and ended 1-2.
At home Parma scored 39 points (11 wins, 6 draws and 1 defeat). Away from home, Cremonese scored 34 points (10 wins, 4 draws and 4 defeats).
In the last 3 matches, Parma faced Palermo, Lecco and Bari, obtaining 5 points thanks to 1 win, 2 draws and 0 defeats.
In the last 3 matches, Cremonese faced Catanzaro, Venezia and Pisa, obtaining 4 points thanks to 1 win, 1 draw and 1 defeat.
Parma met Bari in their last match, drawing 1-1, while Cremonese met Pisa, winning 2-1.
The best scorer of the team coached by is Dennis Man with 11 goals while the best scorer of the team coached by is Massimo Coda with 15 goals.
Parma and Cremonese have faced each other 22 times in the league. In previous matches Parma won 7 times, Cremonese won 11 times while there were 4 draws.
Parma-Cremonese x-ray: historical data, trends and curiosities
- Parma won the last match against Cremonese in Serie B (2-1 last October 2023) and could prevail over the grey-reds both in the first leg and in the second leg in a single cadet championship for the first time in their history.
- Parma have only found success in one of the last four home matches (1D, 2L) in Serie B against Cremonese, after having won four of all the previous six (2L); the Ducali lost their last match at the Tardini (1-2, in September 2021) and could suffer two home defeats in a row against the grey-reds for the first time ever in the cadet championship.
- Parma has achieved mathematical promotion to Serie A and will return to play in the top tournament after relegation in 2020/21; Furthermore, with 74 points in this tournament, the Emilians are only two points away from their record of points collected in a single season in Serie B: 76, in 2008/09.
- Parma, together with Como, is one of the two teams to have won the most matches (21) in this Serie B; the Ducali have never achieved more successes in a single edition of the tournament (21 also in 2017/18, but in 42 matches).
- Cremonese have won only two of the last seven matches (1D, 4L) in Serie B, even if one of these successes came in the last round of the championship against Pisa (2-1); the grey-reds could score two consecutive successes in the cadet tournament for the first time since last February-March (three in that case).
- Cremonese have lost two of their last four away matches (1W, 1N) in Serie B: as many defeats as those suffered by the Grigiorossi in all the previous 14 away matches played in this championship.
- Only Cremonese have conceded fewer goals (31) than Parma (33) in this Serie B; furthermore, the grey-red team is also the only team that has more ‘clean sheets’ (15) than those of the ducals (13, equal to Ascoli) in this tournament.
- Only Venezia (66 goals) have scored more than Parma (64) in this Serie B; at the same time, the Ducale team is the team that has scored the most long-range goals (11, including Hernani’s in the first leg) and only one of the two with the most goals in the first half (30, like Catanzaro).
- Ange-Yoan Bonny has been involved in four goals in the last six Serie B games (one center and three assists); Furthermore, the Gialloblù striker is the youngest player (October 2003) to have contributed to more than 10 goals (4G+7A) in this championship.
- Massimo Coda made his debut in Serie A, with Parma, on 31 August 2014, against Cesena; while in Serie B, the Cremonese striker scored four goals in five games against the Ducali, including his last hat-trick in the cadet championship (7 November 2021, with Lecce, at Via del Mare).
These are the statistics of the two teams in the matches played to date in the championship:
| Parma | Cremonese | |
|---|---|---|
| Games played | 36 | 36 |
| Number of games won | 21 | 18 |
| Number of games lost | 4 | 9 |
| Number of games drawn | 11 | 9 |
| Total goals scored | 64 | 46 |
| Total goals conceded | 33 | 31 |
| Average goals conceded per match | 0.9 | 0.9 |
| Ball possession percentage | 50.5 | 56.2 |
| Total number of steps | 16483 | 16510 |
| Total number of successful passes | 13511 | 13677 |
| Number of shots on target per match | 181 | 172 |
| Percentage of shots on goal | 49.2 | 39.4 |
| Total number of crosses | 533 | 890 |
| Average number of successful crosses | 132 | 238 |
| Duels per game won | 1759 | 1813 |
| Duels per match lost | 1734 | 1815 |
| Corners conceded | 157 | 155 |
| Corners earned | 199 | 209 |
| Number of free kicks in favour | 417 | 407 |
| Number of punishments awarded | 446 | 518 |
| Total tackle | 477 | 523 |
| Tackle success rate | 57.7 | 62.5 |
| Total offsides | 39 | 59 |
| Total number of yellow cards | 71 | 87 |
| Total number of red cards | 5 | 7 |
The complete Serie B standings.
Where to see Parma-Cremonese
Parma-Cremonese can be followed live on Virgilio Sport starting from 3pm (half an hour before) on 5 May.
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