LA SPEZIA. Cremonese beats Spezia 1-0 after M. Coda scored just 1 goal (54′). Cremonese capitalized on its superior ball possession (56%).
The match was played at the Stadio Alberto Picco stadium in La Spezia on Saturday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. The referee was Giacomo Camplone who had the assistance of Matteo Bottegoni and . The 4th official was Mario Perri. The weather was clear sky. The temperature was cold at 7.81 degrees Celsius or 46.06 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 24%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
Cremonese was in firm control of the ball 56% while Spezia was struggling with a 44% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Spezia was more aggressive with 58 dangerous attacks and 11 shots of which 3 were on target. Anyway, Cremonese was able to find the solution to win this match.
Spezia shot 11 times, 3 on target, 5 off target. Regarding the opposition, Cremonese shot 10 times, 4 on target, 5 off target.
Cards
Spezia received 4 yellow cards (Petko Hristov, Dimitrios Nikolaou, Francesco Cassata and Rachid Kouda). On the opposite side, Cremonese received 2 yellow cards (Michele Collocolo and César Falletti).
Match Timeline
Standings
After playing this match, Spezia stays with 17 points like FeralpiSalò to sit in the 20th place. Talking about the opposition, Cremonese will has 38 points like Venezia to sit in the 3rd place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Serie B, Spezia will play away with Pisa on the 27th of January with a 4-0 head to head statistic in favor of Pisa (3 draws).
Cremonese will host TBC on the 27th of January with a 0-0 head to head statistic.
Spezia – Formation
Spezia
46'
90'
Spezia adopted the 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).
The manager Luca D’Angelo decided to play with the following team: Jeroen Zoet , Iva Gelashvili , Petko Hristov , Dimitrios Nikolaou , Luca Vignali , Rachid Kouda , Salvatore Esposito , Filippo Bandinelli , Francesco Cassata , Daniele Verde and Francesco Pio Esposito .
The home team had on the bench: Tio Cipot , Niccolò Pietra, Raimonds Krollis , Giovanni Corradini, Lukas Mühl , Luca Moro, Gian Marco Crespi, Pietro Candelari , Petar Zovko, Mirko Antonucci, Nicolò Bertola and Filip Jagiełło .
Substitutions
Spezia made 5 changes: Iva Gelashvili for Lukas Mühl (46′), Francesco Cassata for Filip Jagiełło (61′), Filippo Bandinelli for Raimonds Krollis (76′), Luca Vignali for Tio Cipot (84′) and Rachid Kouda for Pietro Candelari (84′).
Player of the match: Daniele Verde
Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Spezia was Daniele Verde.
His rating is with 29 passes (83% accurate) and 3 key passes. He won 6 duels out of 8. He performed 5 crosses.
Cremonese – Formation
Cremonese
54'
Also Cremonese adopted the 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).
Giovanni Stroppa played with: Andreas Jungdal , Valentin Antov , Luca Ravanelli , Matteo Bianchetti , Leonardo Sernicola , Michele Collocolo , Michele Castagnetti , César Falletti , Luca Zanimacchia , Franco Vázquez and Massimo Coda .
The following players were sitting on the bench: Daniel Ciofani, Felix Afena-Gyan, Paolo Ghiglione , Gianluca Saro, Yuri Rocchetti, Gonzalo Abrego, Giacomo Quagliata , Žan Majer , Luka Lochoshvili , Frank Tsadjout , David Okereke and Alessandro Livieri.
Substitutions
Cremonese made 5 changes: Luca Ravanelli for Luka Lochoshvili (46′), Leonardo Sernicola for Paolo Ghiglione (67′), César Falletti for Žan Majer (67′), Franco Vázquez for Giacomo Quagliata (78′) and Massimo Coda for Frank Tsadjout (77′).
Player of the match: Franco Vázquez
The most impressive player for Cremonese was Franco Vázquez even if he didn’t score the decisive goal.
His rating is with 28 passes (93% accurate) and 2 key passes. He won 12 duels out of 19. He performed 1 cross.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Serie B.
- Brescia – Südtirol – 1-1
- Ternana – Cittadella – 3-1
- Spezia – Cremonese – 0-1
- Reggiana – Como – 2-2
- Palermo – Modena – 4-2
- Lecco – Pisa – 1-3
- FeralpiSalò – Catanzaro – 3-0
- Cosenza – Venezia – 4-2
