The journey of the 31st day continues Spring 1which stops in Verona where theHellas hosts the Genoa. Unmissable chance for both to engage in a tussle with Sassuolo and Milan for the last useful place for the playoffs. The tension and the stakes influence an uneventful first half, with a few flare-ups to raise the temperature of a cold match. Calvani had to take action on La Scala’s outburst in the first minutes of the second half: first Dalla Riva, then Cisse neutralized by two formidable flights from the Genoa goalkeeper. A sliding door shakes the match to its foundations: a cross that explores the area, Meconi settles for Papadopoulos’ left-footed shot, who first catches the post and then pierces Toniolo. Agbonifo, however, is irrepressible and takes a penalty kick, with Romano burying it in the area: Cisse is hypnotized by Calvani. The equalizer comes later: Agbonifo brushes it, Ajayi rises to the sky and passes Calvani. In the final, Genoa took the three points: Sarpa and Papadopoulos stunned Toniolo and led the Ligurians to victory.
The report cards of theHellas Verona
Defenders: Calabrese super second half, Corradi holds up as best he can
Toniolo 6: in the last quarter of an hour he was pelted by the opposing attackers. He lands two sensational reflexes, but falls on the high notes of Sarpa and Papadopoulos.
Nwanege 5: as a defensive third he often drops into the lane, to give even more weapons to the numerical superiority. Total confusion in the final minutes, the markings on both goals leading to the three points are lost
Calabrian 7: he should suffer the athletic mismatch with Ekhator, but he doesn’t know it and puts it in his pocket. Second half as emperor of defense for the department commander. When he leaves, the foundations collapse.
Corradi 6: good advances to eat the field forward, he suffers slightly more with the defense deployed or on Ekhator’s gaps. From 79′ Popovic 5.5: unforgettable entrance for the opponents. He leaves meadows behind him and forgets the spacing during the last two lunges of Sarpa and Papadopoulos.
Midfielders: Agbonifo draws football, Cisse scribbles
Agbonifo 7: he gains pace and attacks depth more frequently in the final part of the first half. He starts again in sixth gear: continuous accelerations, including the one that causes the missed penalty by Cisse. The equalizing corner hits Ajayi’s head.
Dalla Riva 6.5: too impetuous interpretation of the disturbance phase. He gets an avoidable yellow card, then in the second half he sends out bellicose signals, even arriving in the final meters and finding a phenomenal response from Calvani to cancel out a potential goalscorer. From the 74th minute Szimionas SV
D’Agostino 6: he places himself on the median and lowers the shutter, limiting supplies to the opposing attackers. He is missing in the proposal, he doesn’t sew the game because he prefers to break up the opponent’s game.
Cisse 5: he trashes Ajayi’s creation in the 38th minute with a right-footed shot that soars to the back. He warms up Calvani’s gloves in the fifth of the second half, but then throws away a watershed penalty, allowing himself to be read by Calvani.
Riahi 5.5: not very present in offensive projection, he is noted in the bad guys’ notebook for a late foul and little else.
Forwards: Cazzadori evanescente
Cazzadori 5: “the Phantom of the Opera”. He disappears in the depths of a match that never belongs to him, especially from an attitude point of view. From 84′ Dentale SV
Ajayi 6.5: prefers dusk to dawn. At the end of both halves he produced for himself and his teammates: the equalizer was imperious, after taking the lift on Agbonifo’s offer.
