Atalanta – Hellas Verona 1-2 (1-0)
ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Pardel 6.5; Guerini (cap.) 5.5, Tavanti 5.5 (45′ st Jonsson sv), Tornaghi 6; Ghezzi 5.5 (28′ st Martinelli 6), Mensah 6.5 (1′ st Armstrong 6), Riccio 6, Cassa 6; Bonanomi 7 (28′ st Capac 6); Fiogbe 7 (35′ st Camara sv), Vavassori 6.5. Available: Torriani, Obric, Simonetto, Ragnoli Galli, Orlando, Castiello. All.: Giovanni Bosi 6.
HELLAS VERONA (3-5-2): Ravasio 5.5; Nwanege 6 (45′ st Popovic sv), Calabrese (cap.) 6.5, Corradi 6.5; Patanè 7.5, Dalla Riva 6 (28′ st Szimionas 6.5), D’Agostino 5.5, Cisse 7 (35′ st Pavanati sv), Riahi 6; Cazzadori 5.5 (28′ st Vermesan 6), Ajayi 5.5 (44′ st Agbonifo sv). Available: Toniolo, Ramage, Dentale, De Battisti, Doucoure, Fagoni. All.: Paolo Sammarco 7.
Referee: Cappai from Cagliari 6.5 (Galigani from Sondrio, Farina from Brescia).
NETWORKS: 4′ pt Fiogbe (A), 19′ st Cisse (V), 24′ st Corradi (V).
Note: spring afternoon, spectators. Mensah, Bonanomi, Rihai, D’Agostino and Riccio were booked for incorrect play. Goal chances 10-12, total shots 12-16, saved 3-5, blocked/deflected 4-1, woodwork 1-0. Corner 3-6, injury time 2′ and 6′.
Alzano Lombardo – The punishment of Cisse and the header of Corradi to overturn the door sill paw of Fiogbethe same third place left virtually to the Lazio one day before the end of the regular season. There Atalanta spring greets the “Carillo Pesenti Pigna” by pairing the defeat in Bologna with the internal one with theHellas Veronamoreover on a comeback, and the tenth defeat of the season brings it down to the rankings playoffs. Now Inter, defeated today by the Bergamo team’s direct competitor, are missing to visit the gong. The next appointment to try to access the Final Four will be, barring any shocks or success against the leaders, in turn at risk of position in favor of Roma, and Lazio’s defeat at the home of an Empoli with nothing to tell the championship, Friday 24 May against Sassuolo or Torino, in any case fourth against fifth, at Viola Park in Bagno a Ripoli.
It starts badly with Mensah’s outgoing error, which went unpunished because Pardel intercepts the right hand in flight Cissebut at the first chance the Beninese hits the tap-in in a split under the crossbar: nice pickpocket for D’Agostino from whoever had lost the ball at the start, Bonanomi draws the left-handed little crossed of Vavassori and the rebound from Ravasio, ex Villa Valle, is really too short not to be a succulent tray. In the ninth, a discordant symphony from the Nerazzurri defensive chain on the left with goalkeeper hypnosis suffered by From the Shore in Patanè’s wake: very close shot, the Pole crumples. A long pause of chances precedes the next, that of the possible Atalanta doubling (24′), always with the same protagonists of the advantage in the barrel right at the icebreaker, quick to turn to the side of the attacking midfielder overlapping the second striker but with a decidedly chewed shot , albeit not by much. Not exactly a dead equal, however, was Ajayi’s aerial play who, two touches into the half hour, went badly off balance into the path of the yellow-blue right-handed flag.
The confrontation, from time to time, increases the pace, conditioned by the semi-summer heat, becoming livelier. As at the dozen from the interval, when the throw-in of Ghezzi projects the first marker on whose cross towards the back Earnings he heads the ball, where the field is almost finished, chipping the top of the crossbar. At the end of a chronometric trio, Cisse’s cutting serpentine causes another danger for Pardel from the edge, even if the local gloveman is on the spot and Ajayi is offside, while a little later he is still the wild one Fiogbe to resist a charge for the double occasion Riccio-Vavassoriblocked with opposition in the last resort of sliding Calabrian, the same one who will deflect the tracer of the Italian-Brazilian convergent in the 44th minute; from there the future match winner (high) tries to head it in the fortieth minute from a corner action and Alphadjo before the recovery on a second ball, in imitation of Mensah, more of an alleviation to avoid a restart than anything else, crazy determination and presence in the middle to a few too many lost balls.
There recovery witnesses another vain attempt at an encore (6′) in the form of a goring Curlymuch called for the low catch of the Bergamo player between the Veronese posts, following an invitation from the left corner of Bonanomi. On the tenth move from Cazzadori’s pretentious scorpion, from the center of the area, on D’Agostino’s soft ball kicked by Riahi. As harmless as Cisse’s strangled left-footed shot opened by Dalla Riva within a quarter of an hour. All very impromptu, like the turn of Earnings in line with the right chain just before, stopped by the excellent guest pin. Red alert, however, on centralization and accident in progress Patane which Pardel had to deflect into the corner with his full arm just three minutes later. The decisive signal, the watershed. The best of the Venetians, in fact, gets the foul and kicks towards the top corner from about twenty metres: the ball just drops and for Zingonia’s Under 19 team it’s all over again. Too bad it’s the scorer arm left foot from the others, meeting yet another Patanè corner in the middle of the second half, a shower that couldn’t be colder than that. Swirl of exchanges and Ravasio says no to the slash just from outside Curly supported by Capac (32′), penultimate goal ball for the Bosi-boys who get lost amidst the substitutions: ten from the ninetieth, Cisse before going out catches Vermesan who widens with his left, a minute and Capacity he escapes Calabrese from the right by kicking high on the defender’s return. In the end, more Hellas than anything else.
