The Matchday
Serie B matchday 8 in numbers: standings, form, head-to-heads and margins
From 23 to 27 October, 17 matches: Palermo on 19 points, Ascoli with 5 goals conceded and margins compared across the available coverage.
Published 19 October 2026
Palermo lead on 19 points and have this round's best attack, with 16 goals. Ascoli have conceded the fewest, 5; Sampdoria and Vicenza the most, 15. These are ESPN figures recorded on 19 October 2026, with 7 matches played per team.
The window from 23 to 27 October covers 17 matches, with teams playing more than once. Standings and form remain a snapshot from that reading: for later fixtures they are not the kick-off figures. Available margins cover 10 matches.
How much margin, operator by operator
The margin measures the premium built into the full-time result market across all three outcomes. Medians and extremes refer to the matches available for each operator.
| Operator | Matches | Median margin | Lowest | Highest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Netwin | 10 | 5.02% | 4.57% | 5.48% |
| Betflag | 10 | 7.42% | 6.92% | 7.61% |
| Betsson | 9 | 9.57% | 9.14% | 10.31% |
| bwin | 10 | 9.52% | 8.48% | 10.14% |
Recorded on 19 October 2026 at 20:45, Italian time. Source: official operator feeds via api.oddsonar.com. Betsson is missing for Catanzaro-Ascoli: gaps are compared only across the 9 matches with all four operators present, on the same three-outcome market.
In this group Netwin's margin is below Betflag, Betsson and bwin on all 9 matches. The smallest gap is 3.88 percentage points on Arezzo-Benevento; the largest is 5.46 on Empoli-Vicenza.
The previous round, with the figures recorded then: Serie B matchday 7: what do form, head-to-heads and margins tell us?
Palermo-Carrarese: 16 goals against 6
On 25 October Palermo, on 19 points, meet Carrarese, on 7. Their last five matches yielded 13 and 6 points respectively. The four available meetings are all Serie B, up to 7 March 2026: two Palermo wins, one draw and one Carrarese win.
Empoli-Vicenza: the previous meeting was a cup tie
On 23 October Empoli, on 7 points, face Vicenza, on 6. The only available meeting is an Empoli win in the Coppa Italia on 15 August 2021: the archive's latest meeting therefore predates 2024 and is not from Serie B.
Ascoli and Sampdoria: defences and past meetings
Catanzaro-Ascoli, on 24 October: 4 points against 12 and 14 goals conceded against 5. Ascoli-Sampdoria follows on 27 October: the three meetings up to 11 March 2024, across Serie B and the Coppa Italia, produced two Sampdoria wins and one draw.
Before that, on 24 October, Sudtirol-Sampdoria pairs teams on 12 and 4 points. Their last five games yielded 8 points against 3. The six meetings up to 31 August 2025, across all competitions, produced four Sudtirol wins and two Sampdoria wins, including a Coppa Italia tie.
Hellas Verona-Pisa: 14 goals each
On 25 October two attacks with 14 goals meet, with Verona on 8 points and Pisa on 13. The four meetings up to 6 February 2026 were all draws, but span Serie A and Serie B.
The other matches, briefly
- Cremonese-Juve Stabia, 24 October: 6 points against 5; both collected 6 points from their last five games.
- Modena-Cesena, 24 October: 13 points against 8; their last five matches yielded 7 points against 4.
- US Avellino-Padova, 24 October: 11 points against 7 and 12 goals scored against 6.
- Virtus Entella-Mantova, 24 October: Entella on 9 points, second-placed Mantova on 14; their last five games yielded 9 points against 8.
- Arezzo-Benevento, 24 October: 10 points against 11. The archive lacks past meetings, so we do not cite any.
- Benevento-Catanzaro, 27 October: 11 points against 4. The archive lacks past meetings, so we do not cite any.
- Cesena-Empoli, 27 October: the six meetings up to 28 February 2026, across Serie A and Serie B, produced four Empoli wins and two draws.
- Mantova-Cremonese, 27 October: 14 points against 6 and 13 goals scored against 6.
- Padova-Sudtirol, 27 October: 7 points against 12; their last five games yielded 3 points against 8.
- Vicenza-Modena, 27 October: four Serie B meetings, three Vicenza wins and one Modena win. The latest was on 16 January 2016, before 2024.
- Virtus Entella-US Avellino, 27 October: 9 points against 11; their last five matches yielded 9 points against 8.
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How to read the archive
Past meetings come from openfootball: the latest archived match is dated 24 May 2026 and the current season is missing. Records describe the available meetings, not every match ever played. Standings and form come from ESPN.
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