Salernitana’s trip to Bari may be one of the shorter journeys in Serie B but it could feel like a long trek home for Roberto Breda’s side if their away form is anything to go by.

The Granata have the unwanted label of being the division’s worst team on the road, having lost nine of their 14 matches, drawn four and beaten only Palermo – 1-0 back at the start of October. In those 14 outings they have managed just eight goals while conceding 21.

Breda knows they have to improve. “Away games have different characteristics to home games, Bari is an opportunity to try to win,” he said on his club’s official website. 

“In the last away game in Cesena (2-0 defeat after conceding in the 84th minute and in injury-time) we didn’t get far. The team is becoming increasingly aware, we know that we have to get more points away from home without wasting any opportunities. 

“Bari is one of these and despite the pitfalls we have to try to do everything we can to win.”

The San Nicola is a place where they are winless in their last seven visits (four losses, three draws) but they do go into this one on a bit of a high after Roberto Soriano scored the only goal of the game against Modena last Saturday, a result which left them second from bottom in the standings, 10 places and 10 points behind Bari.

That gap would be wider if Bari had not reinvented themselves as the league’s draw specialists of 2025. Six of their nine matches this year have ended all square, and that is more than any other side in the division.

Moreno Longo’s men are clinging on to the coattails of the play-off chasers and trail eighth-placed Palermo, in the final spot, on goal difference.

Longo has Kevin Lasagna back among the goals heading into the final stretch of the campaign after the striker ended a run of 11 matches without scoring or assisting when netting in last Sunday’s 1-1 draw against runaway league leaders Sassuolo.

Lasagna was also on target in the reverse fixture against Saturday’s opponents in November when Bari won 2-0, but Longo is expecting a tough test this time.

“They are a strong opponent,” he said, as reported by labaricalcio.it. “We must not think that Salernitana reflect their ranking. It is more complicated to play against teams that have to save themselves and that have to play with a knife between their teeth.

“I consider this match more difficult than the one with Sassuolo (last week). We will have to be perfect in our approach and attitude, this will be necessary to win. It’s an important match for us too.”

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