Season trivia for Serie B 2018/2019
It's not all about becoming the top scorer or winning matches - there's also a wealth of fascinating information related to goalscorers and other remarkable records. Below, you'll find trivia and interesting facts from the 2018/2019 Serie B season in Italy.
Best scoring couple
The players who were behind the most goals for their team in the 2018/2019 season were the players Mattia Finotto - Andrea Schenetti (Cittadella), Andrea La Mantia - Jacopo Petriccione (Lecce), Leonardo Mancuso - Ledian Memushaj (Pescara), Ilija Nestorovski - Stefano Moreo (Palermo), Aleksandar Trajkovski - George Puscas (Palermo), Roberto Insigne - Massimo Coda (Benevento), Gennaro Tutino - Jaime Báez (Cosenza), Ernesto Torregrossa - Alfredo Donnarumma (Brescia) and Gabriele Moncini - Andrea Schenetti (Cittadella). Together they scored 4 goals for their teams, where one of the players scored the goal and the other one assisted to it.
Fastest goalscorer
These players all scored goals in the first minute of a match during the 2018/2019 season:
Fastest hat-trick
Alfredo Donnarumma, playing for Brescia, was the player who scored the fastest hat-trick. In the space of 17 minutes, he scored three goals in the match between Brescia-Padova.
Top goalscorer by calendar month
The most goals scored in a calendar month during the season 2018/2019 was 5 goals, which these players scored in those months:
Leonardo Mancuso (Pescara) - December 2018
Simy (Crotone) - March 2019
Massimo Coda (Benevento) - April 2019
Milan Duric (Salernitana) - April 2019
Most braces by player
Alfredo Donnarumma in Brescia scored (at least) two goals in a match 6 times and was thus the player who scored the most braces in matches during the 2018/2019 season.
Most first goals in a match
The first goal of a match means a lot, and these players each scored it in a total of 9 matches during the season:
Massimo Coda (Benevento)
Andrea La Mantia (Lecce)
Most last goals in a match
The last goal of the match was scored the most times by Alfredo Donnarumma in Brescia during the 2018/2019 season, in total he did this 8 times.
Most penalty goals by player
The best penalty taker in the league during the 2018/2019 season was Alfredo Donnarumma, in total he scored 7 penalties for his Brescia.
Most penalty goals by team
Benevento was the most effective team of all when it came to penalty goals during the 2018/2019 season, in total they scored 10 of their goals from penalties.
Most stoppage time goals by player
In total, 2 players scored 3 goals in added time, and the players who did so were Luca Vido (Perugia) and Alfredo Donnarumma (Brescia).
Most stoppage time goals by team
When it comes to stoppage time goals, Brescia was the best team, in total they scored 8 goals in the final minutes of the match.
Most own goals by player
The unluckiest scorer during the 2018/2019 season was Andrea Cistana, as he held the somewhat dubious honour of scoring the most own goals of any player in Serie B, which he did 2 times.
Most own goals by team
Crotone scored 3 own goals in all their matches, making them the "best" at it in the entire league during the 2018/2019 season.
Players with goals in most consecutive matches
Valerio Verre in Perugia scored in 5 consecutive matches during the 2018/2019 season, which was the best in the league.
Players with most goals in the first half
It was Alfredo Donnarumma in Brescia who scored the most goals in the first half, with a total of 11 goals in the first half of the match.
Players with most goals in the second half
Alfredo Donnarumma in Brescia scored a total of 14 goals in the second half, including stoppage time, which was the best in Serie B during the 2018/2019 season.
Most consecutive wins
Verona was the team with the most consecutive wins during the 2018/2019 season, with a total of 4 wins in a row.
Most consecutive losses
Padova had a streak of 5 consecutive losses, something no other team surpassed in Serie B during the 2018/2019 season.
Most matches in a row without a win
Crotone managed the feat of not winning a single match in 11 consecutive matches during the 2018/2019 season, something they did best among all the teams in the league.
Most blown leads resulting in losses
Taking the lead in matches only to lose is no admirable feat, but Padova have managed this in 5 matches during the 2018/2019 season, more than any other team in Serie B.
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