Serie B · Italy · Regular Season - 2

Pisa–Catanzaro

2–1

HT 2–1

Kick-off: Sunday, 30 August 2026 at 19:00
Status: Match Finished
Venue: Arena Garibaldi - Stadio Romeo Anconetani, Pisa

Goals and red cards

22'CatanzaroPietro Iemmello (assist: Antonio Candela)
28'PisaSimone Canestrelli (assist: M. Tramoni)
30'PisaG. Leone (assist: O. Correia)

Match statistics

Match statistics
Pisa		Catanzaro
18	Shots	14
9	Shots on target	7
15	Shots inside the box	10
6	Goalkeeper saves	6
6	Corners	7
0	Offsides	3
45%	Possession	55%
370	Passes	462
301	Accurate passes

What we expected, and what happened

Expected goals before kick-off: Pisa 1.71 · Catanzaro 0.97. On the pitch: 2-1.
Shots Pisa 18 · Catanzaro 14; on target 9 and 7.
Catanzaro kept the ball more (55%).

Referee

Alberto Ruben Arena, Italy→

3.36

yellows per match

0.00

reds per match

matches of data

11 matches is a small sample — these averages are noisy and should not be read as a tendency.

Model prediction

Why this prediction?

The model puts the most likely outcome at 51.0%: “Pisa to win”. Second comes “a draw” at 27.6%.
Behind that distribution are the expected goals: 1.53 for Pisa, 0.92 for Catanzaro.
The highest double chance value is 78.6% (1X — Pisa win or draw).
These values were computed from 1,538 past matches.

This is a prediction, not a guarantee; a probability is not a certainty.

These sentences are built by a fixed template; every number in them comes straight from the model's computation, none invented while the text was written.

Pisa to win51.0%

Draw27.6%

Catanzaro to win21.4%

When the model has said 50–55% in the past, 1,337 of 2,542 predictions were correct (52.6%). Accuracy record →

15	Fouls	11

3	Yellow cards	1

0	Red cards	0

First half

Actual: 2–1

Pisa lead at half-time37.6%

Level at half-time42.9%

Catanzaro lead at half-time19.6%

First-half double chance

1X — Pisa ahead or level80.4%

12 — not level at half-time57.1%

X2 — level or Catanzaro ahead62.4%

These values are not a fraction of the full-match prediction; they come from a separate model trained on the first-half scores of 1538 matches. Its edge over the base rate is markedly smaller than the full-match model's — the measured figure is on the accuracy record. Read them more cautiously. First-half goal markets are not published because they failed to beat the base rate.

Expected fouls and corners

Fouls

Pisa: at least 15Actual: 15
Catanzaro: at least 11Actual: 11

Corners

Pisa: at least 4Actual: 6
Catanzaro: at least 3Actual: 7

These figures are set to hold in at least 60% of matches; in the rest the count comes in below them. No upper bound is stated — we make no "at most" claim. Yellow cards were measured and are not published: there our model did not beat the historical average.

What these probabilities rest on

Expected goals comes out of a team's attack weighed against its opponent's defence. A strong attack is damped when it meets a strong defence — which is why comparing the ratings on their own is misleading.

How many goals Pisa score1.71

Attack: Pisa score close to the league average.

Opponent's defence: Catanzaro's defence is close to the league average (1.08×), so it doesn't move the expectation much.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 1.71 goals (including home advantage).

How many goals Catanzaro score0.97

Attack: Catanzaro score above the league average (16% more).

Opponent's defence: Pisa concede 21% fewer than the league average, which pulls the expectation down.

Result: These two effects give an expectation of 0.97 goals (including the away penalty).

Most likely scorelines

1–114.0%1–012.4%2–110.2%

A single scoreline is always less likely than an outcome: “home win” is the sum of 1-0, 2-0, 2-1 and dozens more. So the most likely single score can be a draw while the most likely outcome is a home win; the two do not contradict each other.

Week 2 of the season. This prediction was computed from previous seasons. Summer transfers, budget changes and squad rebuilds aren't in the ratings yet — the model can only see that a team has been rebuilt once new results come in.

We measured this: the bias is only pronounced in the opening week. In this week the model's overall accuracy does not separate from the rest of the season — that is, we found no measurable flaw. The one tendency across all opening weeks is that home wins are called slightly too often (said 43.0%, got 41.9%; n=583).

This sample is small and not statistically established, which is why we do not correct the model for it. The correction we tried (pulling probabilities toward the league average) didn't win on holdout, so it wasn't added. Read opening-week predictions with a little more caution.