Match Report
Taranto, 4th with 65 points, sat 23 points above Monopoli (17th, 42). Recent form flatters Monopoli's table spot — 6th league-wide over the last five rounds while sitting 17th. Per game in the league, Monopoli were scoring 1.08 and conceding 1.34, Taranto 1.21 and 0.82, against a competition average of 1.18 goals per team per game.
Momentum sat with Monopoli, winners of their last three. Monopoli had banked 13 of the last 15 points on offer; Taranto, 7.
5 meetings are on record — 2 won by Monopoli, 2 by Taranto, 1 drawn, at 2 goals per meeting. The pattern favours whoever hosts: home teams have won 80% of the meetings. Only 20% of the meetings produced more than two goals.
The match was played at Stadio Vito Simone Veneziani in Monopoli (capacity 6,880). Half-time and full-time told different stories: it was 0-0 at the break, before 3 more goals closed it at 1-2.