The epilogue of this 2023-2024 season of Serie B has arrived: in 30th and final day of championship, the Bologna women faces on its own field theArezzo led by coach Ilaria Leoni. In case of victory in the Bonarelli match, which will start at 3pm, the rossoblù would confirm their position in eighth position (on the left side of the chart). If, however, the Amaranths, currently ninth, were to win, they would catch Bologna and make up for the 2-0 defeat suffered in the first leg.
Mister Simone Bragantini chooses the 4-3-1-2: Lauria returns to defend the goal, four-man line with Larocca, Ripamonti, Rossi and Raggi, Barbaresi, De Biase and Gradisek in midfield, finally Colombo behind the Gelmetti-Pinna duo. The guests instead side with a 4-3-3 (Holzer; Imprezzabile, Blasoni, Tuteri, Toomey; Martino, Licco, Lunghi; Nocchi, Razzolini, Carcassi).
The match will be refereed by Mr. Francesco Saffioti from the Como section.
First half – Bologna women in great difficulty, Arezzo scores three goals
These last ninety minutes begin with Bologna moving the first ball. The rossoblù immediately become dangerous with an incursion by top scorer Martina Gelmetti into the Arezzo area, but good coverage arrives from the Amaranth defensive unit. The guests, however, increase the pressure: in the following action Nocchi wins a good opportunity by also trying to put the ball in the middle, but the rossoblù defense is attentive. In this start of the match we play at a high levelwith upsets by both teams.
To the 21′Then, Arezzo has the chance to take the lead thanks to a penalty caused by a foul by Greta Raggi. It goes from the diskette Nocchiwho makes no mistakes and thus marks the network of 0-1. Now the home team appears to be in great difficulty and in fact about ten minutes later the visiting team doubled their lead: a wild Nocchi provided an excellent assist Rocketswhich marks the 0-2. Bologna fails to react and to 37′ Still Rockets it does too 0-3achieving his own personal double.
Second half – From 3-0 to 3-3: Bologna wins the sensational draw
At the beginning of the second half Bragantini makes the first substitution of the match by inserting Sciarrone And Zanetti in place of Raggi and De Biase. The pace of play is still high and the extreme defenders of the two teams are called to attention on several occasions. In the 51st minute, for example, only a great intervention by Lauria prevented Arezzo from scoring their fourth goal. A few minutes later an inaccuracy by the guests allows Gelmetti to escape, but Holzer opposes the rossoblù number 11 very well. At this point Bragantini also tries to strengthen his attack by replacing Barbaresi and Larocca with Antolini And Flour, two offensive players.
It is at this moment that something changes in Bologna. There usual Martina Gelmetti reopens the match finding the network1-3: it is the 17th goal in the championship for the rossoblù striker. A few minutes later the home team gets even closer to a draw thanks to the header by Romina Pinna: the Sardinian striker makes the 2-3 and marks her ninth goal since arriving under the two towers in January. Then, ten minutes from the end, Bologna won a penalty kick and the sensational opportunity to bring a draw a game that seemed lost: Sciarrone he puts the ball in the goal and the incredible happens 3-3. In the last tense minutes, Gelmetti also came close to scoring the lead, with the ball finishing just an inch from the post. Saffioti concedes four minutes of added time, then the final whistle arrives. The match, the last of this Serie B season, ends like this.
Spectacular season finale for the Bologna women’s team, who managed to regain the match by scoring three goals in the second half. A draw that brings Simone Bragantini’s girls within reach 39 points in the rankings, thus ending the year in eighth position (after having achieved the main goal of salvation). Great performance also fromArezzo by Ilaria Leoni, who however slips to tenth place with 36 tiles.
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