Frosinone look to pull off a feat against Inter

The third-to-last Serie A TIM matchday begins with Frosinone v Inter. The Ciociari, two points ahead of Udinese in the third-to-last position, aim to improve their already record-breaking streak of six games without defeat to distance themselves from Udinese, who are third-to-last and first in the relegation zone. Especially because Di Francesco's team would like to face Udinese on the last day (preceded by an away game in Monza) in a position of advantage. Inter, on the other hand, want to bounce back to end the second star season on a high after last week’s defeat to Sassuolo.

DID YOU KNOW?

Frosinone have won 78% of their points at home in this Serie A campaign (25/32), second only to Granada (86% – 18/21) in the big five European leagues this season. Inter lost their last Serie A game, 1-0 against Sassuolo; the only time Inter have lost successive matches having already won the title was in 1953 (three consecutive defeats). Overall, in the era of three points for a win, before this season the Nerazzurri have won eight games, drawn once and lost twice as champions. LInter have scored 13 penalties this season in Serie A this season; the most in Europe’s big five leagues this term. Indeed, in the last 20 seasons (since 2004-05) only two teams have scored more penalties in a single Serie A campaign: Milan (15 in 2020-21) and Lazio (15 in 2019-20), while Frosinone have taken the third-most penalties in Serie A this season (10, scoring 8) behind Inter (14) and Roma (11).

HEAD-TO-HEAD

Frosinone have lost each their five matches against Inter in Serie A - among the teams against which they have not obtained a single point against in the competition, the Gialloblù have only played more games against Roma (6). Frosinone have met the team top of Serie A table prior to the start of the matchday only three times, with them not scoring a single goal in these three matches (the last against Inter in November 2023) and have always lost, conceding a total of seven goals.

PLAYERS

Considering players from the big five European leagues born from 2003 onwards, Matías Soulé (15/04/2023) is the one with the most appearances as a starter this season (33). Indeed, among those who have scored more than 10 goals, only three are younger than him (Jude Bellingham, Benjamin Sesko and Florian Wirtz). Lautaro Martínez has not scored in Serie A since the 28th February against Atalanta, going seven matches in a row without a goal since then - only once has he recorded a longer goalless streak in the competition (run of eight between December 2021 and February 2022). Indeed, the last Inter player who scored more than his 23 goals in a single Serie A season was Romelu Lukaku in 2020-21 (24).

DISCIPLINE

Suspended: none Barrenechea (Frosinone) Cautioned: Oyono, Soulè, Mazzitell, Zortea (Frosinone); Mkhitaryan (Inter)

REFEREE

Giua (Scatragli-Di Gioia) IV: Prontera, VAR: Paterna, AVAR: Doveri

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Monza-Frosinone Inter-Lazio (Photo Getty Images)