Serie B, the results: Cagliari and Venice win. Only equal for Como, Inzaghi loses

Lazio and Calabria win and are the only two teams with full points. Equal and 4 goals between Como and Pisa, Ternana beats Reggina with a goal from Partipilo

Michele Antonelli

August 21
– Milan

On the Sunday of B only Pisa and Como are divided, with the 2-2 of the Arena Garibaldi. Then, goals and emotions. Cagliari reassembles Cittadella at Unipol Domus (2-1) thanks to goals from Mancosu and Makoumbou in the final, Venezia snatches the three points from Sudtirol with an own goal in full recovery (1-2 to Druso), Frosinone passes without problems for Benito Stirpe with Brescia (3-0). Success also for Cosenza (2-1 in comeback at San Vito Marulla) and for Ternana, who beat Reggina at Liberati with Partipilo’s masterpiece in the first half.

CAGLIARI-CITADEL 2-1

Good start for Liverani’s team at Unipol Domus. At 12 ‘Altare’s left ends high, on the development of a corner kick. At 24 ‘another great chance for Cagliari, always on a corner. In the scrum, the quickest on the ball is Lapadula: the left-footed shot ends high. The guests find the advantage in the half hour with Asencio’s right-footed player, who hooks the ball into the area from the rear and strikes Radunovic with his right. One to zero for Gorini’s men at the interval. Cagliari returned to the field in search of an equal and the match returned to balance in the 72nd minute, thanks to the header of Mancosu, good at believing in Luvumbo’s cross from the outside. Another opportunity for the rossoblùs after 2 ‘: Lapadula’s right-footed shot ends up on the post. The Sardinians complete the comeback with Makoumbou in the 87th minute, who served by Millico beats Kastrati with a nice right to the edge of the post.

PISA-COMO 2-2

At the Garibaldi Arena the result changes after 5 ‘: Blanco is good at exploiting a lightness in the disengagement of the Tuscan defense to beat Nicolas and make 1-0. Maran’s team absorbs the blow and reacts in the 21st minute with Masucci’s header, who comes close to equal on a cross from Marin. Another turn of the clock and here is the 1-1: Bellemo lands in the Moruțan area, penalty kick. From the spot, the Romanian midfielder makes no mistake: his first center in Italy is worth the same. Lively game in the second half, with both teams looking for the advantage: in the 70th minute Mancuso goes close, but Nicolas opposes. New overtaking of Como in the 77th minute: Kerrigan’s right-footed shot, on the field for just ten minutes, brings the guests the lead. The Tuscans are not there and cling to the freshness of Torregrossa, good at finding the equal as an opportunist nine minutes after entering the field. Between Pisa and Como, it ends 2-2.

SUDTIROL-VENICE 1-2

Few emotions and no goals in the first half of Drusus: we go to the break at 0-0. Something is moving in the recovery. At 52 ‘, Venezia tries to be seen by Poluzzi with the left from distance of Zampano, who goes out on the bottom. The story takes shape in the 59th minute: Carretta’s cross from the right finds Odogwu’s winning header. It was Sudtirol’s first goal in Serie B. Javorcic’s team looked for the net and found it in the 83rd minute: Pohjanpalo touched the limit for Cuisance, who placed a surgical left in the lower corner. The three points for Venezia arrive at the end of recovery with Curto’s own goal, unlucky in the deviation on de Vries’ low cross.

COSENZA-MODENA 2-1

At San Vito Marulla, the start is of the hosts but the result changes after half an hour thanks to the intuition of Bonfanti. The Gialloblù striker turns on the net, with a header, a cross to Ponsi’s kiss and carries on Tesser’s team. The reaction of Cosenza is not long in coming: the header of the usual Larrivey finds Gagno’s gloves. The same comes in the 66th minute with Florenzi, who surprises the Gialloblù rearguard with a nice right-footed shot from the edge of the area. Cosenza overturns it with the new entry Brescianini, who finds the 2-1 with a sharp right 10 ‘from the end and gives the three points to the Calabrians.

FROSINONE-BRESCIA 3-0

After a quarter of an hour, Benito Stirpe passes Frosinone: Rohden’s cross from the right, Moro’s imperious detachment in the center of the area and 1-0 for Grosso’s team. The doubling of the ciociari arrives in the 57th minute: Lucioni’s postponement and Caso’s textbook stop, in midfield. The yellow-blue 10 starts in fifth place, sows the defense and after forty meters ball and chain deposits the right-footed 2-0 behind Lezzerini. The new entry Mulattieri, put in goal by Bocic, closes the game with 5 ‘from the end. Frosinone wins and convinces, for Brescia it is a 3-0 without appeal.

TERNANA-REGGINA 1-0

High rhythms in the first minutes at Liberati. Calabresi dangerous around the quarter of an hour with a nice triangulation between Menez and Fabbian: a reactive Iannarilli raises the conclusion of the 2003 class midfielder for a corner. makes 1-0 with a right to the surgical fly, which strikes Colombi. It is the goal of the match, which gives success to Lucarelli’s team.

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