Serie B, Como, Catanzaro, Pisa and Samp win

Cutrone’s magic in the 90th minute gives Como a fundamental victory for the promotion race. Venezia falls in the direct clash at Sinigaglia: Verdi scores, the usual Pohjanpalo equalizes with a header, then in the final, the attacker born in ’98 closes the game with a left-footed volley. He had missed the last five games due to injury. Roberts’ team momentarily rises to second place with 52 points, seven points behind leaders Parma. Vanoli’s men remain behind on 51. The Calabrian derby belongs to Catanzaro: goals from captain Iemmello and Biasci decide against Cosenza. Pisa resolved it in the 89th minute with a goal from Barbieri which condemned Cittadella: eighth consecutive defeat for Gorini’s team. Sampdoria wins again against Feralpisalò, while Bari saves themselves against Spezia: it ends 1-1. Ascoli-Reggiana is not unlocked. Now the last match of the Modena-Cremonese weekend is on the field.

Como-Venice 2-1

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The first real opportunity of the match comes in the 22nd minute, when Gabrielloni starts on the counterattack and finds himself face to face with Joronen but he extends the ball too much. The hosts make up for it a quarter of an hour later with the usual Verdi: Da Cunha serves the attacker born in ’92 who from the edge of the area goes past the opposing goalkeeper with his right foot. Barely sixty seconds pass and Vanoli’s men equalise. He always scores, who else but Pohjanpalo: the Finn scores 15 in the season, heads Zampano’s cross and confirms himself as the best scorer in the championship. As soon as the second half begins, Tessmann comes very close to scoring the Sunday goal. From over 30 meters he shoots very hard and hits the top corner. In the 53rd minute the crossbar saved Como again, this time the shot was from Zampano. In the final Semper saves from Olivieri, then Cutrone in the 90th minute invents a magic: a left-foot volley from Iovine’s millimetric throw. This is how he resolves the high-ranking clash with Venezia. That’s 10 league goals for him.

Cosenza-Catanzaro 0-2

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The Calabrian derby immediately went badly for Tutino: in the 9th minute he was forced to come off in tears due to injury. Instead of him inside Forte. The Caserta team tries from afar with Mazzocchi, then the game is interrupted for a few minutes due to the injury of the referee assistant Cipressa. In the 31st minute the goal arrives that breaks the deadlock: captain Iemmello receives from Situm and beats Micai. Before the break Mazzocchi was saved again by Fulignati. The striker born in ’98 leads the home team’s attack, his left-footed shot in the 57th minute ends up at the back. Calò scores twenty minutes from the end, but the referee disallows it due to a foul on Fulignati. In the final Venturi gets himself sent off and leaves Cosenza numerically inferior. Catanzaro takes advantage of this and doubles their lead in the final with Biasci on the counterattack. In the final, Biasci again had a penalty saved by Micai. Vivarini’s team achieved their third consecutive success and rose to fifth place.

Cittadella-Pisa 0-1

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First half blocked at Tombolato. Not much happens, lots of duels in the middle of the pitch. Aquilani’s team takes measures from distance with Arena, Kastrati is precise on two occasions. Then Mlakar devours the opening goal in added time in the first half. Bonfanti also wasted in the 57th minute, before Pandolfi had found the goal disallowed due to an attacking foul. The decisive goal arrives in the 88th minute with Barbieri from distance: the shot is very precise. Yet another knockout for Cittadella. Bari-Spezia 1-1 – D’Angelo’s team leaves no room for their opponents. He turns up the pressure and lays siege to the home team’s penalty area. Brenno has to intervene first on Tanco and then on Cassata. The chances of Iachini’s men are not very dangerous. In the 50th minute Mateju does what he wants in the middle of the area: he controls Jagiello’s perfect pass, puts a defender down and scores the 0-1. Back and forth in less than five minutes, because Sibilli from distance deflected by Hristov restores parity. Despite the opportunities, the result does not change. Spezia remains in the relegation zone with 27 points.

Ascoli-Reggiana 0-0

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Few flashes in the first half, Ascoli only approached the opponent’s penalty area in the 43rd minute when Giovane forced Satalino to save. In the 15th minute Bardi was forced off due to injury, making room for his colleague born in 1999. The goalkeeper also had to save the result before the break from Pedro Mendes. Gondo on one side and Caligara on the other have two good opportunities in the second half. In the 71st minute Viviano comes out on Antiste and saves the result, then intervenes with a very hard tackle on Gondo and gets the red card. Castori’s team remains with ten men, but the match does not end. Little changes in the rankings. Reggiana is above the playout zone on 33, Ascoli is fourth from last on 28.

Feralpisalò-Sampdoria 1-3

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The race was immediately uphill for Zaffaroni’s men. In the 8th minute Felici brings down Verre in the area: it’s a penalty for the referee. De Luca takes the spot and makes no mistakes. Ten minutes later the attacker also doubled the score: fifth goal in the league for him. Pilati tries to close the gap with his head before the 45th minute, to no avail. At the beginning of the second half the Blucerchiati defense falls asleep: Darboe loses the ball on the edge of his area, Stankovic saves from Di Molfetta but can do nothing about Kourfalidis’ shot. A year and a half after the last time, Valerio Verre scores again: in the 79th minute with his left foot he closes the match at 1-3. After the defeat against Cremonese, Sampdoria returns to winning ways. Penultimate place for Feralpisalò at 24.