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- 26′Benevento, yellow card:Raffaele RomanoHandball
- 35′Benevento, yellow card:Foul
- 44′Cremonese, goal:1–0assist
- Half-time1 – 0
- 46′Benevento, substitution:off
- 46′Benevento, substitution:off
- 46′Benevento, substitution:offRaffaele Romano
- 46′Cremonese, substitution:off
- 62′Cremonese, substitution:off
- 62′Cremonese, substitution:off
- 63′Benevento, substitution:off
- 77′Cremonese, substitution:off
- 80′Cremonese, yellow card:Foul
- 82′Cremonese, yellow card:Dissent
- 83′Benevento, substitution:off
- 83′Cremonese, yellow card:Fabio PecchiaDissent
- 85′Cremonese, substitution:off
- 87′Cremonese, goal:2–0
- 90′Benevento, yellow card:Foul
- 90+2′Cremonese, yellow card:Foul
- Full-time2 – 0
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Cremonese beat Benevento 2-0 to end visitors' unbeaten run
Cremonese beat Benevento 2-0 at the Stadio Giovanni Zini in Serie B on Matchday 10, ending the visitors' run of six games unbeaten. The result lifted the home side from 16th place before kick-off to 12th, on 12 points, while Benevento slipped from fifth to sixth.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
The breakthrough came a minute before the interval. Federico Bonazzoli supplied the pass and Tommaso Berti finished to make it 1-0 in the 44th minute. That goal separated two sides who had each managed 12 shots, though Benevento had the greater share of the ball with 62 per cent possession and forced seven corners to Cremonese's one.
Benevento pressed for an equaliser without finding it, and Marco Nasti settled the contest with a goal in the 87th minute to make it 2-0. Cremonese had come into the game after a 2-0 win at Mantova, while Benevento were held 1-1 by Catanzaro in their previous outing. Benevento are at home to Avellino on Saturday 7 November, and Cremonese travel to Vicenza Virtus the following day, Sunday, in Serie B.
Tommaso Berti scored the opening goal on the stroke of half-time and earned the highest rating of any player on the pitch, 8.2. Marco Nasti, who added the second, was rated 7.95.
Benevento forced seven corners to Cremonese's one, but could not turn that territorial pressure into a goal.
Cremonese beat Benevento 2–0 (half-time 1–0).
Cremonese met Benevento in the Serie B (Regular Season - 10). Kick-off was Saturday, 31 October 2026, 14:00 UTC at Stadio Giovanni Zini. Referee: Livio Marinelli.
Key moments
- 44' Goal: Tommaso Berti (assist: Federico Bonazzoli) — 1–0
- 87' Goal: Marco Nasti — 2–0
Starting line-ups
Cremonese (4-4-1-1)
Benevento (4-3-3)
- 26 Gianmarco Vannucchi
- 17 Leonardo Sernicola
- 15 Christian Dalle Mura
- 23 Pietro Saio
- 25 Raffaele Romano
- 8 Mattia Maita
- 4 Antonio Prisco
- 11 Davide Lamesta
- 29 David Okereke
- 32 G. Mignani
- 6 Antonis Siatounis
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Cremonese 53%, the draw 33%, Benevento 14%. It finished Cremonese 2–0 Benevento.
Cremonese's rating edge, tempered by weak Serie B home advantage — Cremonese sit 102 points higher on our strength rating, 1494 to 1392, which is the main reason we give them 53%, though home sides in Serie B generally under-perform the norm, which pulls a little towards Benevento. The draw starts at 25% for a gap this size and rises to 33%, mostly because draws are common in Serie B.
Why Cremonese at 53%?
Cremonese sit 102 points higher on our strength rating — 1494 to 1392. Sides with a 80–160-point rating edge at home won 56.5% of 14,367 such games. The 300 most similar past games finished 56–28–16.
Why only 53%?
Serie B home sides under-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to draws (32.3% vs 25.4% norm) and away wins (26.1% vs 30.0%). Serie B homes won 41.6% of 4,102 games vs 44.6% across all 108,210 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly.
Why is the draw second, ahead of the Benevento win?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 25.0%. These teams' recent games average 2.4 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.4% of 30,357. Serie B runs draw-heavy, adding 7.0 points. The goals environment adds 1.3 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Benevento are newly promoted — game 10 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides are said to struggle, but our rating already carries most of it: across 3,012 first-ten games since 2016 they won 26.8% where the rating expected 28.1% — inside the noise band, below it in six of the ten full seasons we hold and about level last season. Benevento won 3 of the last 6 meetings with Cremonese. The record is 3 wins for Benevento, 2 draws and 1 win for Cremonese. These were 6 Serie B games played at both grounds between 27 October 2018 and 1 March 2022. Latest meeting: 1 March 2022 — Benevento 1–1 Cremonese. In 6,096 historical matches between similarly rated teams, visiting sides with the stronger head-to-head record won 28.2%. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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