BENEVENTO. Venezia overcome Benevento to win 2-1. It was Venezia to strike first with an early goal of Nicholas Pierini at the 4′. Then it was a goal in the 45′ minute to make things even for 1-1. Eventually, Joel Pohjanpalo gave the win to Venezia in the 70′ minute with a goal. Benevento lost this match even if it was better in terms of ball possession (56%).

Mattia Viviani received a red card (89′)​. This double yellow card was one of the reason why Benevento lost the match.

The match was played at the Stadio Ciro Vigorito stadium in Benevento on Saturday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. The referee was Juan Luca Sacchi with the support of Domenico Fontemurato and Tiziana Trasciatti. The 4th official was Davide Di Marco. The weather was clear. The temperature was cold at 10.8 degrees Celsius or 51.35 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 55%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Benevento had a superior ball possession 56% while Venezia was struggling with a 44% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Venezia was more aggressive with 60 dangerous attacks and 14 shots of which 10 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Venezia won the encounter.​

Benevento shot 14 times, 3 on target, 10 off target. On the opposite side, Venezia shot 14 times, 10 on target, 4 off target.

Cards

Benevento received 4 yellow cards (Gennaro Acampora, Pasquale Schiattarella, R. Jureškin and Mattia Viviani). Talking about the opposition, Venezia received 2 yellow cards (Dennis Johnsen and Dennis Johnsen).

Mattia Viviani (Benevento) was sent off after receiving a second yellow card (89′).

Standings

After this match, Benevento will stay with 23 points to hold in the 19th place. Regarding the opposition, Venezia will have 24 points like SPAL to remain in the 18th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Serie B, Benevento will play away with Bari 1908 on the 1st of April with a 1-1 head to head record.

Venezia will play away agasint Bari 1908 on the 1st of March with a 2-1 head to head record in favor of Venezia (0 draws).

Benevento – Formation

Benevento adopted the 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

The manager Fabio Cannavaro decided to play with the following team: Alberto Paleari (6.3), Frédéric Veseli (7.3), Maxime Leverbe (6.4), Alin Toșca (6.8), Riccardo Improta (6.5), Andrés Tello (7.1), Pasquale Schiattarella (7.1), Gennaro Acampora (6.8), Roko Jureskin (7.1), Antonino La Gumina (6.4) and Stefano Pettinari (6.1).

The home team had on the bench: Riccardo Capellini, Camillo Ciano (6.8), Nermin Karić (6.2), Daam Foulon, Hamza El Kaouakibi, Nicolò Manfredini, Ilias Koutsoupias, Mattia Viviani (6.6), Diego Farias, Christian Pastina, Simy (6.4) and Krzysztof Kubica.

Substitutions

Benevento made 5 changes: Gennaro Acampora for Mattia Viviani (59′), Riccardo Improta for Camillo Ciano (59′), Stefano Pettinari for Simy (59′), Pasquale Schiattarella for Nermin Karic (67′) and Maxime Leverbe for Magnus Kofod Andersen (75′).

Best player: Frédéric Veseli​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Benevento was Frédéric Veseli.

His rating is (7.3) with 44 passes (86% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 4 duels out of 9. He performed 2 crosses.

Venezia – Formation

Also Venezia adopted the 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).

Paolo Vanoli played with: Jesse Joronen (6.2), Petko Hristov (6.5), Luca Ceppitelli (6.4), Andrea Carboni (7.4), Antonio Candela (6.7), Tanner Tessmann (7.1), Mato Jajalo (7.0), Mikael Ellertsson (6.5), Francesco Zampano (6.5), Joel Pohjanpalo (7.6) and Nicholas Pierini (7.4).

They had on the bench: Lorenzo Busato, Magnus Kofod Andersen, Dennis Johnsen (6.9), Gianluca Busio (6.6), Bruno Bertinato, Andrea Beghetto (6.2), Andrija Novakovich, Niki Mäenpää, Michael Svoboda (6.6), Denis Cheryshev, Riccardo Ciervo and Tommaso Milanese.

Venezia could not rely on the presence of Michael Svoboda (injured).

Substitutions

Venezia made 5 changes: Petko Hristov for Michael Svoboda (57′), Francesco Zampano for Andrea Beghetto (57′), T. Tessmann for Gianluca Busio (57′), Nicholas Pierini for Dennis Johnsen (67′) and M. Ellertsson for Hamza El Kaouakibi (74′).

Best player: Joel Pohjanpalo​

The player that probably impressed the most for Venezia was Joel Pohjanpalo.

His rating is (7.6) with 1 goal, 27 passes (70% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 5 duels out of 8.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Serie B.​

• SPAL – Bari 1908 – 3-4
• Pisa – Südtirol – 0-1
• Perugia – Brescia – 4-0
• Cosenza – Ternana – 0-0
• Como – Frosinone – 0-2
• Cittadella – Ascoli – 3-0
• Benevento – Venezia – 1-2