The illusion, then the cold shower. At the end of the first 45 minutes of play on the last day of Serie B, Venezia won 1-0 away against Spezia, Como lost 1-0 at home against Cosenza. This being the case, the lagoon players could have earned direct promotion to Serie A. However, football is cruel, and six minutes of play were enough for the home team to overturn it with a deadly one-two. A mocking defeat, because Como didn’t go beyond a draw.
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The game was rather blocked in the first quarter of an hour of play, then the home team came close to taking the lead: on a long cross from the right, Di Serio committed Joronen with a turn that crashed into the Venetian goalkeeper. On the reverse, Venezia earns a corner kick which gives the visitors the advantage: Andersen brushes a ball into the center of the area, which finds the winning header from Jay Idzes. At minute 17 the Orangeroversi lead 0 to 1.
Spezia are well organised, cover spaces well and are dangerous on more than one occasion, but it is Venezia who come very close to doubling their lead in the 26th minute: following Candela’s cross, Gytkjaer breaks away and seriously challenges Zoet with a precise header and powerful, then on the rebound Pohjanpalo wastes from a few steps.
At the beginning of the second half it was Spezia who kept control of the game and constantly projected themselves into the opponent’s half of the field. The hosts, after ten minutes of total domination, equalized with a right-footed shot from the edge of the box by Francesco Pio Esposito. In the 60th minute, the Bianconeri took the lead, with Arkadiusz Reca capable of scoring a split shot from Elia’s cross from the right. The orange-greens, in the first 20 minutes of the second half of the game, remained in the changing rooms. The story doesn’t change in the following minutes: Spezia is more square, Venezia attacks in a confused way and in the 80th minute they risk losing the third goal on a free kick from Esposito, just over the crossbar. Playoff date.
