Cremonese host Pisa at the Stadio Giovanni Zini on Sunday afternoon in a Serie A meeting that carries real weight at the bottom end of the table. Both sides are deep in relegation trouble, but the urgency is different. Cremonese sit 18th on 28 points and badly need to steady themselves before the season slips away for good, while Pisa are bottom on 18 points and staring at a near-impossible fight to claw their way out of the danger zone.
There’s a fair bit of scar tissue between these two as well. Their recent meetings have gone Pisa’s way more often than not, including a 1-0 win in Serie A on 7 November 2025. Pisa have generally had the edge in this pairing, but league position says far more than history here. Cremonese need points to create breathing room. Pisa need something, anything, to stop the slide.
Cremonese Form & Analysis
Cremonese come into this one stuck in a miserable run, even if the performances haven’t all been hopeless. Their last outing ended in a 2-1 home defeat to Lazio on 4 May, a game in which they actually carried some threat. Federico Bonazzoli put them ahead in the 29th minute, and for a while they had something to hang on to. But Lazio found a way back through Gustav Isaksen and then struck late through Tijjani Noslin. That’s the story of Cremonese right now. They’re competitive in patches, then the game slips away.
Before that came the heavy 4-0 defeat at Napoli, a result that was hard to dress up in any positive light. Sandwiched around it were a 0-0 draw at home to Torino, a 1-0 loss at Cagliari and a 2-1 home loss to Bologna. The only win in their last six was the 2-0 success at Parma on 21 March. Since then, it’s been five games without a win. That’s not relegation form. That’s survival form gone stale.
At home, Cremonese’s numbers are ordinary rather than catastrophic, which is almost a compliment in this league. They’ve taken 13 points from 17 home matches, with two wins, seven draws and eight defeats. They’ve scored 14 goals and conceded 25 at the Zini. So they don’t fold in every home game, but they rarely take control either. The goals return at home is modest, and the defensive record leaves them needing at least one or two to go their way before they can feel comfortable. That’s the problem. They don’t have much margin for error, and they’re not built to play on the front foot for long spells.
Still, there are signs they can nick a goal in games like this. They’ve scored in enough home matches to keep the crowd interested, and the Lazio fixture showed they’re capable of creating chances against decent opposition. The issue is what happens after that. If they’re one goal up, they rarely look convincing enough to shut the door. If they fall behind, the comeback energy isn’t usually there. That makes this a dangerous afternoon, because Pisa will fancy their own chances of getting on the scoresheet. Cremonese won’t want a trade-off. They need control. They don’t often get it.
Pisa Form & Analysis
Pisa arrive in worse shape, and that’s saying something. Their last six have all ended in defeat, which is a brutal run for a side already anchored to the bottom of the table. The latest was a 2-1 home loss to Lecce on 1 May, and that one stings because Pisa actually did a lot right in attack. They posted a healthy 2.23 xG, had 17 shots and forced seven on target. Lameck Banda gave them hope after the interval, but Mehdi Léris and then Walid Cheddira turned the game around for Lecce. That was the theme again: enough going forward to suggest they can hurt teams, not enough at the back to protect themselves.
The games before that followed a grim pattern. They lost 1-0 at Parma, 2-1 at home to Genoa, 3-0 away to Roma and 1-0 at home to Torino. The one before that was a wild 5-0 defeat at Como, which tells you how fragile they can be when things go wrong. Pisa don’t lack effort. They lack stability. You can see bits of attacking life in there, but the result almost always turns sour. Six straight losses. That’s a collapsing run, and it’s hard to ignore.
Their away record is the sharpest sign of all. Pisa are winless on the road this season: 0 wins, 8 draws and 9 defeats from 17 away matches. They’ve scored 16 and conceded 40 away from home. Forty. That is a huge problem. You don’t survive at this level with that kind of defensive return on your travels, especially when you’ve not even managed an away win. They’ve at least picked up enough draws to avoid complete collapse in some matches, but the broader picture is bleak. They concede too often, too early, and then spend the rest of the game chasing it.
Mind you, Pisa aren’t completely blunt in attack. Their overall tally of 25 goals is low, yes, but not as hopeless as some bottom-half sides. They can create chances and they can score — the 2.23 xG against Lecce proves that much. The real issue is whether they can do it in a way that survives the other end. At the moment, they can’t. And on the road, that’s been fatal. Can they finally find an away win here? On current form, it’s hard to make that case with a straight face.
Head-to-Head
This fixture has leaned Pisa’s way in recent seasons. The most recent meeting saw Pisa beat Cremonese 1-0 in Serie A on 7 November 2025, and that followed a run of tight or awkward contests for the hosts. Pisa also beat Cremonese 2-1 in May 2025 and 3-1 at Cremonese in November 2024, while the sides drew 0-0 in December 2023 and 1-1 twice in 2021 and 2022. Pisa have taken three wins in the latest batch of meetings, and they’ve also kept Cremonese from settling into a rhythm far too often.
There’s a pattern worth keeping in mind too. Cremonese have failed to keep a clean sheet in four of the last five meetings, and Pisa have scored first in six of the last eight in this pairing. That matters. If Pisa get the first goal again, this turns awkward very quickly for Cremonese.
We Predict: Both Teams To Score
We’re backing Both Teams To Score at 1/1 for this one. If you want more detail on accumulator betting, our accumulator betting guide breaks down accumulator betting including how to build combos without padding the slip. It’s a fair price for a match between two sides who concede too often to trust, but who also carry enough attacking threat to nick a goal each. Cremonese have scored in enough home matches to keep this alive, while Pisa’s away numbers are poor but not sterile — and their recent defeat to Lecce showed they can still generate chances.
The cleanest read here is a 1-1 draw. That fits the shape of both teams: one side battling to stop the bleeding, the other carrying the sort of away frailty that keeps gifting opponents a route in. Could it turn into a flat, low-tempo scrap? Sure. But Pisa’s defensive record on the road and Cremonese’s inability to shut games down point towards goals at both ends. If you want a slight alternative, over 2.5 goals has a case, but BTTS is the sharper call.
