About Match
3 points and 1 places separate them: Palermo 1st with 13, Mantova 2nd with 10. Scoring rates set the scale: Palermo 2 scored and 1 conceded per game, Mantova 2 and 0.75, with the league averaging 1.27. Mantova would climb to 13 points with a win and up to 1st, overtaking Palermo (other results held equal).
Defeat has not touched Palermo in 7 games, having scored in 7 consecutive games.
5 meetings are on record — 2 won by Palermo, 0 by Mantova, 3 drawn, at 3.2 goals per meeting. Home advantage has meant little here: 40% of the meetings went to the host. Three-plus goals is the norm here, arriving in 60% of the meetings, and both sides scored in 80%.
Stadio Renzo Barbera in Palermo stages the fixture, a ground that holds 36,365.