Lazio and Genoa will clash in the Serie A Week 9 match on Sunday, October 27, 2024, at the Olimpico di Roma Stadium. Lazio has been on a roll, winning four out of their last five encounters with Genoa in Serie A, with an impressive average of 2.4 goals scored per game. Meanwhile, after their recent 0-1 loss, the Grifone could struggle to score for two straight matches against Lazio, a scenario they haven't faced since 2016.

Stats before the game

In the past 14 encounters between Lazio and Genoa in Serie A, there have only been three instances where one of the teams didn't score. Notably, two of these matches occurred last season, both resulting in 1-0 victories for the away team. Following their recent away win against Lazio (0-1 on August 27, 2023), Genoa has the chance to secure back-to-back home victories over the Biancocelesti for just the second time in top-flight history, having previously achieved four consecutive away wins from 2011 to 2015.

In Serie A, Juventus stands out as the only team with more home victories than Lazio, boasting 12 wins compared to Lazio's nine (7 wins, 2 draws). The last time the Biancocelesti faced defeat at home was on March 11, when they lost 1-2 to Udinese. Meanwhile, Genoa has struggled recently, losing three of their last four away matches (with just one win) after previously going unbeaten in nine out of ten games (3 wins, 6 draws).

This marks just the third occasion in the three points for a win era that Genoa has allowed at least 17 goals in their first eight matches of a Serie A season, following 2019/20 (20 goals) and 2021/22 (18 goals). Additionally, the Rossoblu are on the verge of conceding two or more goals in five straight top-flight matches for the first time since September 2021, when they did so six times in a row.

Lazio has let in goals in 10 straight Serie A matches, marking their longest run of games with at least one goal conceded since the stretch from March to September 2010, when they went 12 matches without a clean sheet. Additionally, this is just the second instance in the past 60 years where the Biancocelesti have failed to secure a single clean sheet in their opening eight games of a Serie A season; the first occurrence was during the 2021/22 season, when they finally achieved a clean sheet in their 10th match.

Genoa is the team that has conceded the most goals (13) during the second halves of this Serie A; furthermore, the rossoblù is one of the three teams, together with Lecce and Roma, to have scored the fewest goals before the break (two each).

Player Stats

Boulaye Dia has scored two goals in the first three home games played with Lazio in Serie A; among foreign players, only Juan Sebastián Verón (three in 1999) has done better in his first four home appearances with the Biancocelesti in the competition in the three points for a win era (since 1994/95).

Andrea Pinamonti has scored three goals in this championship; only three Italian players have scored more goals in Genoa's first nine Serie A games of the season in the three points for a win era (since 1994/95): Marco Borriello (five in 2007/08); Alessandro Matri (four in 2014/15) and Mattia Destro (six in 2021/22). However, Lazio are, together with Atalanta and Lecce, one of the three teams that the rossoblù striker has faced more than three times in Serie A, without managing to score (six encounters in the competition). Photo via x.com/Officialsslazio