Inter drawing with Crotone and Lazio losing to Genoa continued the trend of Serie A being the most unpredictable of Europe’s top five leagues, Footy Stats reveals.
Week 23 saw Napoli and Juventus once again extend their lead over the chasing pack, and there are now 13 points between second and third.
That was thanks in no part to surprise results for the Nerazzurri and the Aquile, and statistics show that Serie A is the most unpredictable of Europe’s top five leagues.
Inter drawing with Crotone and Lazio losing to Genoa continued the trend of Serie A being the most unpredictable of Europe’s top five leagues, Footy Stats reveals.
Week 23 saw Napoli and Juventus once again extend their lead over the chasing pack, and there are now 13 points between second and third.
That was thanks in no part to surprise results for the Nerazzurri and the Aquile, and statistics show that Serie A is the most unpredictable of Europe’s top five leagues.
Footy Stats puts the Italian top flight’s risk at 74 per cent, indicating that scorelines are very unpredictable.
Both La Liga and the Premier League come in at 73 per cent, with the Bundesliga on 66 per cent and Ligue 1 on 63 per cent.
Home advantage doesn’t carry much weight on the peninsula either, with home sides scoring just 17 per cent more than the average, compared with 32 per cent in La Liga and Ligue 1 and 28 per cent in the Premier League and Bundesliga.
Lazio’s defeat to Genoa saw them miss the chance to go four points clear of Inter, despite having 18 shots to just five for the visitors.
Going in to the game the Biancocelesti had scored 2.8 goals per home match, with the Grifone managing just 0.45 on the road.
Davide Ballardini’s side are solid on their travels though, with just 0.55 goals conceded away from Marassi on average, compared to Lazio’s record at home of conceding 1.1 goals per game.
There were no such surprises as Napoli visited Benevento and emerged with a comfortable 2-0 win at the Stadio Ciro Vigorito.
Benevento have taken an average of just 0.58 points at home, and have lost every single Serie A away match.
Extrapolated over the season, their 0.3 points per game would see them end the campaign with 11 points, making them the worst-ever Serie A side ahead of Brescia in 1994-95, who got 12.
In Turin, Juventus smashed seven goals past Sassuolo to overtake Lazio as the league’s top-scorers.
Their 59 goals scored means Juve get an average of 2.57 goals per Serie A game, while their 14 clean sheets is also a league best.
However, Napoli have the edge in terms of overall goals conceded with 14, just 0.61 per match.