Marco Piccinini
Marco Piccinini has not taken charge of a Serie A match in 26/27. The figures below are a career record. Over the last 10 Serie A games Marco Piccinini has officiated, the average is 3.70 cards a match — 12% below the league average of 4.19. That splits 3.4 yellow and 0.3 red a game — a red in 3 of the 10. The away side sees more cards — 2.0 to 1.7 a game, in line with the league's 0.3 gap. 5+ cards landed in 40% of those games (4 of 10), from a 14.6% foul-to-booking rate. Penalties come at about the league's rate: 13 awarded in 44 matches, 0.30 a game against a league average of 0.29. These are raw match figures from those games, not odds.
Match cards last 10 games
Career profile
The two numbers that matter are vs league — the multiplier the model applies to a player's booking chance — and conversion, the share of fouls Marco Piccinini turns into bookings. Conversion, not the raw foul count, is where a referee's real card tendency lives. Career figures across every Serie A season on record.
| Measure | Piccinini | League avg |
|---|---|---|
| Cards / match | 4.05 | 4.19 |
| vs league | 0.97× | 1.00× |
| Foul-to-card conversion | 16.6% | 16.9% |
| Fouls / match | 24.4 | 24.7 |
| Penalties awarded / match | 0.30 | 0.29 |
| Penalties awarded (total) | 13 in 44 | — |
| Red cards shown | 5 | — |
| Matches on record | 44 (0 in 26/27) | — |
Recent matches
The last 8 Serie A games Marco Piccinini took charge of — the actual card and foul counts a match-cards line settles on.
| Match | Score | Cards | Y | R | Pen | Fouls |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSC Napoli v Bologna11 May | 2–3 | 5 1 pen | 5 | 0 | 1 | 22 |
| AC Milan v Parma22 Feb | 0–1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 23 |
| Atalanta v Cremonese9 Feb | 2–1 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 22 |
| Parma v Udinese29 Nov | 0–2 | 4 1 red 1 pen | 3 | 1 | 1 | 25 |
| Lazio v Torino4 Oct | 3–3 | 6 1 pen | 6 | 0 | 1 | 35 |
| Cagliari v Inter27 Sep | 0–2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 27 |
| Como v Genoa15 Sep | 1–1 | 5 1 red | 4 | 1 | 0 | 30 |
| AS Roma v AC Milan18 May | 3–1 | 6 1 red | 5 | 1 | 0 | 28 |
● a red card▪ a penalty awarded in that match
Frequently asked
How many cards does Marco Piccinini give per game?
Marco Piccinini averages 4.05 cards a game across 44 Serie A matches — 3% below the league average of 4.19. On a Marco Piccinini appointment, the model multiplies every player's booking chance by 0.97.
Is Marco Piccinini a strict referee?
About average. The honest measure is foul-to-card conversion — the share of fouls that become bookings — and Marco Piccinini runs at 16.6% against a league average of 16.9%. Foul counts barely vary between officials; the rate at which a foul becomes a booking is where referees genuinely differ.
Does Marco Piccinini's record change bet builder card prices?
It should. The referee is the single biggest factor in the to-be-carded market, and the appointment is public before kick-off — so a strict official on a combative player is the archetypal card edge. The player cards guide walks through exactly how the model turns a tendency like this into a price.
How reliable is Marco Piccinini's card rate?
It rests on 44 career matches, a solid record. The model shrinks a referee's tendency toward the league average when the sample is thin and discounts its own confidence for officials with young records, so a number like this never gets trusted beyond what the evidence earns.
Rates shown are figures from public match data for context; the model adds shrinkage and an opponent factor, and discounts its confidence for thin referee records, before flagging any card as value. It compares against the bookmaker's price as offered — card markets are priced one side only, so that price still carries the bookmaker's margin. 18+ — please gamble responsibly.