Sassuolo-Spezia 4-1: double by Berardi, goals by Verde, Ayhan, Scamacca

From our correspondent Alex Frosio

March 18
– Reggio Emilia

Fourth victory in the last five, Sassuolo’s streak continues to knock on the doors of the Europe area. Berardi plays 300 games in neroverde and takes advantage of it to reach 100 goals in Serie A (in 265 appearances) with a brace. In a blue key, very well, also because Scamacca enters and scores.

Quick Launch

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Sassuolo, cold, suffers the initial high aggression of La Spezia. But at the first lunge it hurts: Traoré inside for Berardi, touch vertically for the insertion of Frattesi, Kovalenko, late, sinks him. Penalty. Berardi, in the 300th match against Sassuolo, crosses from the spot. Sassuolo took the lead on 17 ‘. Not by chance. Frattesi’s percussions pierce the soft side of Spezia, attacked on the right by three opponents. On 16 neroverde shows up twice more only in front of the goal: at 21 ‘after a Reca-Nikolaou mess which Provedel remedies at the exit, at 26’ on Berardi’s imaginative filtering but the extrapass attempt for Defrel is long. The Spezia slowly registers the ball possession and at 36 ‘draws: good action on the left, Bastoni takes the bottom and crosses towards the far post where Verdi hooks up and invents a magic spin left. And then Sassuolo gets back to pushing. Kyriakopoulos in the 39th minute engages Provedel with his left foot, Lopez in the 41st minute tries to seat the whole defense in the area but his shot is intercepted by Amian.

recovery

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Sassuolo wastes no time. Berardi, still him, arms the left in the 3 ‘(high). A minute later, a high recovery allows Defrel to serve 25 on the run, and this time with the right Berardi is not wrong. Sassuolo again forward and in control, Spezia not received except for a penalty requested by Kovalenko for a light touch by Frattesi in the 25th minute. In the meantime, Scamacca entered, at the beginning of the third quarter of the game, to give more weight and effectiveness to Dionisi’s attack. And the result widens. At 33 ‘Ayhan collects in the area and strikes Provedel from the right winger for the 3-1. At 36 ‘Scamacca serves poker directly on a free kick, with the help of Manaj who opens the barrier. No manita just because Provedel in diving opposes Lopez and Bastoni in front of the door stops Oddei in the final.