Pisa vs Calcio Padova Preview: Can Pisa's Horror Run End Against In-Form Visitors?
Connor Maguire ·
Last updated 15 August 2026. Preview will refresh again closer to kick-off.
Right, let's have a proper look at this one. Pisa vs Calcio Padova, Serie B, Sunday evening in Tuscany. On paper it sounds like a tasty mid-table scrap. In reality... one of these sides is in freefall and the other is quietly doing something interesting. Let me explain.
Pisa's Form Is an Absolute Disaster Zone
I'll be straight with you. Pisa's recent numbers are not good. They are, to use the technical term, scenes of the bad variety. Look at the last five overall: LLLLL. Five losses, two goals scored, eleven conceded. At home in the last five it's only marginally better, one win buried under four defeats with five goals for and nine against.
The away form over the last five? Zero wins. Zero draws. Five losses. One goal scored. Fourteen conceded. Now I know this is their home record we're talking about for Sunday but that away context tells you everything about the confidence levels in this squad right now. They are a team carrying the weight of ten straight losses in their last ten overall, with one solitary win to show. One. In ten.
Shots on target per game is sitting at about 2.33. Corners per game is one. One corner a game, mate. That's a team that barely gets into threatening positions. The momentum slope at home is minus 0.6 as well, which means things are trending the wrong way even at the Arena Garibaldi.
Calcio Padova Are Actually Buzzing
Here's where it gets interesting. Padova come into this off the back of a last five overall record of WWLWW. Four wins from five. Seven goals scored, four conceded, with a 60 percent clean sheet rate in that same window. The home form is even better, four wins from five at home with just one goal conceded across those matches.
Their ten game overall record is 50-50 on wins and losses but the trajectory is what matters. Look at the form string: WWLWWWLLLL. The losses came earlier, the wins are more recent. The momentum slope is sitting at positive 0.35 and climbing.
Now, context matters here. Padova finished 9th in the 2025 season, just a rung below Pisa in 8th. Neither of these clubs were setting the world on fire last campaign. But current form is current form and right now one team looks like they're building something and the other looks like they're unravelling.
Away form for Padova over five games is a bit more mixed, one win from five on the road, but that lone win came first in the sequence and the recent away losses have been against tougher opposition. Don't read too much into that.
The Betting Picture
Team News and Injuries
No injury data has come through as of this update and there are no confirmed absences listed in the data. The new season standings are all showing zero games played so we're right at the start of the 2026 campaign. This preview will be refreshed closer to Sunday with any team news that drops. Keep an eye on that.
The Call
Pisa are favourites and playing at home. Fine. The home advantage is real and they have to turn this around at some point. Trust the process, as people ironically say in football before everything goes wrong. But Padova are in form, the model thinks the bookies are underrating them, and this Pisa defence is genuinely a mess right now.
Sunday 23 August, 18:00 UK time. Get involved.