COSENZA. Pisa had a surprising win over Cosenza with a 2-0 win with a goal from I. Toure (9′) and a penalty scored by Y. Cohen (51′). Cosenza lost this match even if it was better in terms of ball possession (59%).

The match was played at the Stadio San Vito-Luigi Marulla stadium in Cosenza on Saturday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. The referee was Daniele Chiffi with the assistance of Giuseppe Perrotti and Domenico Palermo. The 4th official was Francesco Luciani. The weather was clear. The temperature was quite cold at 4 degrees Celsius or 39.25 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 59%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Cosenza had a superior ball possession 59% while Pisa was struggling with a 41% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Cosenza was putting more pressure with 63 dangerous attacks and 15 shots of which 2 were on target. Even so, Pisa succeeded in find the solution to win this contest.​

Cosenza shot 15 times, 2 on target, 13 off target. Regarding the opposition, Pisa shot 14 times, 4 on target, 10 off target.

Cards

Cosenza received 2 yellow cards (M. Carraro and A. Tiritiello). On the opposite side, Pisa received 3 yellow cards (D. Di Quinzio, I. Toure and G. Piccinini).

Standings

After playing this match, Cosenza will stay with 16 points to remain in the 17th place. Regarding the opposition, Pisa will have 38 points to sit in the 1st place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Serie B, Cosenza will play away with Cittadella on the 26th of December with a 2-2 head to head stats.

Cosenza – Formation

Cosenza started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).

The manager Roberto Occhiuzzi decided to play with the following team: Kristijan Matosevic (6.3), Roberto Pirrello (6.1), Andrea Tiritiello (6.4), Michele Rigione (6.8), Angelo Corsi (6.7), Luca Palmiero (7.5), Reda Boultam (6.1), Marco Carraro (6.2), Giuseppe Caso (6.6), Gabriele Gori (7.4) and Vincenzo Millico (7.1).

The home team had on the bench: Umberto Saracco, Andrea Vallocchia (6.8), Gianluigi Sueva (6.7), Sanasi Sy (6.8), Aldo Florenzi (7.1), Alessandro Minelli, Michael Venturi, Steeve-Mike Eyango, Julian Kristoffersen, Luca Pandolfi (6.6) and Ciro Panico.

Substitutions

Cosenza made 5 changes: V. Millico for L. Pandolfi (56′), G. Caso for A. Florenzi (56′), A. Corsi for S. Sy (66′), M. Carraro for A. Vallocchia (72′) and R. Boultam for G. Sueva (72′).

Best player: Luca Palmiero​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Cosenza was Luca Palmiero.

His rating is (7.5) with 65 passes (76% accurate) and 2 key passes. He was won 13 duels out of 22. He performed 4 crosses.

Pisa – Formation

Pisa started with a christmas tree line-up (4-3-2-1).

Luca D\’Angelo played with: Nicolas (6.5), Hjörtur Hermannsson (7.1), Maxime Leverbe (7.1), Antonio Caracciolo (7.2), Pietro Beruatto (7.3), Idrissa Toure (7.6), Ádám Nagy (6.8), Davide Di Quinzio (7.0), Giuseppe Sibilli (6.8), Yonatan Cohen (7.5) and Gaetano Masucci (7.4).

These were the players on the bench: Assan Seck, Giulio Falsettini, Filippo Berra (6.4), Alessandro Curci, Gabriele Piccinini (6.7), Alessandro De Vitis, Alessandro Livieri, Andrea Cisco (6.8), Alessandro Quaini and Nicholas Siega (6.2).

Pisa could not rely on the presence of N. Siega (injured).

Substitutions

Pisa made 4 changes: D. Di Quinzio for N. Siega (49′), Y. Cohen for A. Cisco (74′), I. Toure for G. Piccinini (75′) and G. Masucci for F. Berra (83′).

Best player: Idrissa Toure​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Pisa was Idrissa Toure.

His rating is (7.6) with 1 goal, 34 passes (61% accurate) and 3 key passes. He was won 10 duels out of 20. He performed 1 cross.

Results of the day

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

• Ascoli – Cremonese – 1-4
• Como – Reggina – 1-1
• Crotone – Pordenone – 4-1
• Frosinone – SPAL – 4-0
• Cosenza – Pisa – 0-2