Women’s Serie A, TikiTaka Francavilla-Bitonto the final. Pero triumphs in Serie B

First versus second. Or second against, first as the scoreboard says for the 21st of the Women’s Serie A Italian Cup, currently taking place in Genoa and Campo Ligure. Last season’s Scudetto final will also be the last act of the race for the tricolor cockade par excellence of five-a-side football. TikiTaka Francavilla and the Bitonto champions remain faithful to the regular season ranking (just as happened in the men’s in Policoro) not before having overcome the proverbial seven shirts to tame the revelation Kick Off and a great GTM Montesilvano.

DECIDES AN OWN GOAL IN THE FINAL

Super seeds at the Stadium between Bitonto and GTM Montesilvano. The Italian champions escape with a 2-0 lead with Renatinha and Mansueto, but the Pescara team aren’t up for it and, thanks to the 5v4 move, they recalibrate the match in 5′ with a brace from Belli. In the second half the neroverdi escape again: Renatinha, Mansueto and Lucileia score a terrifying partial, a 3-0 that could have extinguished the ambitions of anyone, not Morgado’s girls: Manieri and Taty in 19″ reopen everything, one minute from the at the end the sensational 5-5 arrives, Jessika Manieri scores it again. Everyone expects penalty shots, but at 34″ the goal that decides the match arrives, in reality an own goal: Taty in an attempt to oppose Lucileia unfortunately pushes the ball into his own net. Bitonto passes, no one takes away the applause at GTM Montesilvano.

VANIN AND THE HARD LAW OF THE EX

In the first semi-final, TikiTaka Francavilla put an end to the Kick Off fairytale, surprisingly punishing Falconara in the quarter-finals. It’s an own goal from Ghilardi that seals the match, to avoid any misunderstandings the former Vanin makes it 2-0 for the Giallorossi. Russo’s girls don’t give up and get back into the game with another own goal, that of Guidotti following a corner kick from Lanziloti. It takes an immense Vanin to decisively direct the Stadium challenge: goal and illuminating assist for Prenna’s 5-1, Berté’s goal in the middle. Down 5-1, Russo brings on Bortolini as goalkeeper: goals from Lundstrom and Lanziloti arrive, nothing more: it ends 5-3.

PERO TRIUMPHS IN SERIES B

The first trophy of Liguria 2024, the Italian Serie B Women’s Cup, is lifted by the Lombard team Pero. Yet it was Cenedese who deceived the Lucanians of the CMB. But before the final whistle Giuliano, Marino and MVP Annese gave Andrea Badini’s club a historic day.