Matchday 1 TIM 2020-21 30 September 2020 30/09/2020 18:00 - CIRO VIGORITO BENEVENTO Vs INTER Inter have won both of their Serie A TIM matches against Benevento: 2-1 on the road in October 2017 and 2-0 at Meazza stadium in February 2018. Inter have won nine of their last 11 Serie A TIM matches against newly promoted teams (D2) –their last such defeat was back in September 2018 against Parma. Benevento won against Sampdoria in their first match of the league season – they picked up only one more point in the first 19 matches of their previous Serie A TIM campaign (four in 2017/18). Inter have won their last two away league matches without conceding goal – the last time the Nerazzurri kept three clean sheets in a row on the road in Serie A TIM was back in September 2013. Inter’s manager has always won his first seasonal match on the road in the Top-5 European Leagues since 2011/12 (6/6). Both Benevento and Inter have won their first league match of the season despite finding themselves in a losing position until minute 70. This will be the first match as managers in Serie A TIM beween and Antonio Conte. They played 93 matches together in the Italian top-flight between 1997 and 2001 with Juventus. Benevento’s has netted three goals against Inter in Serie A TIM, including his first brace in the competition (in November 2012 at Meazza stadium) – only against Genoa and Sassuolo has he scored more in the competition (both four). Benevento’s Luca Caldirola, who grew up in the Inter youth sector, played only one official match with the Nerazzurri: in the group stages of the Champions League in 2011/12 against CSKA Moscow, under . The most recent of Marcelo Brozovic’s two braces in Serie A TIM arrived against Benevento in October 2017 – on that occasion he scored Inter’s last direct free kick goal on the road in Serie A TIM.

30/09/2020 18:00 - DACIA ARENA - STADIO FRIULI UDINESE Vs SPEZIA This will be the first match between Udinese and Spezia in Serie A TIM. In the 12 fixtures in (each of these between 1930 and 1950), there has been just one draw, while Spezia lead with seven wins against four. In the last Serie A TIM campaign, Udinese won only one of their six matches against newly promoted teams: 1-0 on the road against Lecce (D3 L2). After a streak of five consecutive home wins against newly promoted teams in Serie A TIM, Udinese have won only one of their last seven matches against these sides in Friuli (D3 L3). Udinese have won only one of their last nine Serie A TIM matches at Dacia Arena: 2-1 against Juventus in July (D4 L4). In the 21st century only one of the previous eight teams have won their first ever Serie A TIM match on the road: Chievo in 2001. The other seven sides registered one draw and six defeats. Despite attempting 18 shots against Verona in the last match, Udinese failed to find the net. Only in two previous seasons have they failed to score in each of their first two seasonal games in Serie A TIM: in 1981/82 and in 1985/86. 31 of Udinese’s Kevin Lasagna 33 goals in Serie A TIM have arrived in open play, including each of his last 14. Udinese’s goalkeeper Juan Musso has kept the joint-most clean sheets in Serie A TIM in 2020: nine, alongside Gianluigi Donnarumma. Spezia’s Diego Farias scored a goal against Udinese in Serie A TIM, in November 2016 with Cagliari.

30/09/2020 20:45 - OLIMPICO LAZIO Vs ATALANTA Lazio are looking to avoid going winless in seven Serie A TIM matches in a row against Atalanta for the first time since 1992 – they’re currently on a streak of six (D3 L3). Atalanta have scored in each of their last four Serie A TIM matches against Lazio on the road (W1 D2 L1), while in the previous six they failed to score five times. Both Lazio and Atalanta have averaged 2.3 points per game on home soil in 2020, only Juventus have gained more in Serie A TIM in this period (2.6). Under Simone Inzaghi, Lazio have never won the first home seasonal match in Serie A TIM (D2 L2) – with their last win coming back in 2015 against Bologna, under . Atalanta haven't won back to back games in Serie A TIM in their last eight matches (W4 D3 L1), after a streak of nine consecutive wins between February and July. Since the start of last season Atalanta haven’t lost in 19 of their 20 Serie A TIM matches on the road (W12 D7), the best such record in the competition – their only away defeat in the period was back in December 2019 against Bologna. Atalanta (29) and Lazio (28) have gained the most points from losing positions since the start of last season in Serie A TIM. Lazio’s Milinkovic-Savic netted his first brace in Serie A TIM against Atalanta in December 2017 – in that match (ended 3-3), Josip Ilicic scored his first brace with Atalanta. In 2020, Ciro Immobile scored 10 goals in 10 home Serie A TIM matches, his best scoring average for him in a single calendar year in Serie A TIM. Atalanta’s Luis Muriel has scored five goals at Olimpico stadium in Rome (10 matches): in no other stadium has he netted more in Serie A TIM (excluding home apps with his teams).