Serie B 22/23: road to Reggina - Venezia

The Easter Monday away match will see Venezia engaged at the Stadio Oreste Granillo against seventh-ranked Reggina, on Giornata 32 of the 2022/23 Serie B season.

Previous encounters

There are 13 previous fixtures between Reggina and Venezia in Serie B, with a partial in favor of the Lagunari thanks to six wins and four draws.

Venezia is unbeaten in six away matches (2W, 4D) against Reggina in Serie B and has never conceded more than one goal per contest in the partial, at the Granillo. The Calabria one is the only team against which the orange and green have never lost away from home, among the opponents faced at least five times in the tournament.

Stats and trivia

After their success in the last match against Perugia, Reggina could win two matches in a row in Serie B for the first time since last November - the second win of that streak came against Venezia itself.

However, Reggina has lost its last two home matches in the league (against Parma and Cagliari) without finding the way to a goal and could suffer three consecutive home defeats, running out of goals for the first time in its Serie B history.

After picking up three points in five games (3D, 2L), Venezia has won the last two in the league (against Ascoli and Como); the lagunari have not lined up three consecutive successes in the series since February 2021 (four at that time, under Paolo Zanetti's management).

Venezia is the team that has earned the most points with goals scored in the last 10 minutes of play in the current tournament: nine, of which eight (89%) just away, including the last one on the Ascoli pitch, scored by Carboni.

Coaches and formations

Paolo Vanoli and Filippo Inzaghi have already met on their respective benches in the first leg: coach Inzaghi has been in charge of Reggina since July 2022, leading the team to a 1-2 victory at the Pier Luigi Penzo Stadium on Nov. 12, 2022.

Filippo Inzaghi had his debut on the bench in the championship precisely with Venezia, which he led from 2016 to 2018, totaling 45 games and 18 wins.

In the last three matches, coach Inzaghi has varied form on each occasion, switching between 4-3-3 (Cagliari), 3-4-2-1 (Genoa) and 3-5-2 (Perugia). Coach Vanoli recently employed Denis Cheryshev as a trequartista in the 3-4-1-2, returning to the favored 3-5-2 in the last two league engagements.

Scorers

Giovanni Fabbian is the midfielder who has scored the most goals in this league (eight); in addition, the 2003-born is Reggina's top scorer in Serie B 2022/23.

The only hat trick signed by Andrija Novakovich in Serie B came against Reggina in May 2021 at the Granillo, when he wore the Frosinone jersey. The Venezia striker found the goal again, with a brace, in the friendly played by the lagunari against Este.