PISA. Spezia overcame Pisa. Pisa was much superior in terms of ball possession (67%).
The match was played at the Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani stadium in Pisa on Saturday and it started at 4:15 pm local time. The referee was Maurizio Mariani assisted by Giorgio Peretti and Claudio Barone. The 4th official was Erminio Cerbasi. The weather was clear sky. The temperature was cold at 13.61 degrees Celsius or 56.5 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 71%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
Pisa had a superior ball possession 67% while Spezia was struggling with a 33% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Pisa had a more offensive attitude with 60 dangerous attacks and 27 shots of which 12 were on target. Nevertheless, Spezia succeeded in find the solution to win this encounter.
Pisa shot 27 times, 12 on target, 6 off target. On the other side, Spezia shot 6 times, 3 on target, 2 off target.
Cards
Pisa received 6 yellow cards (Nicolas, Lisandru Tramoni, Antonio Caracciolo, Gaetano Masucci, Simone Canestrelli and Tomás Esteves). Regarding the opposition, Spezia received 3 yellow cards (Salvatore Esposito, Rachid Kouda and Niccolò Pietra).
Match Timeline
Standings
After playing this contest, Pisa stays with 26 points to sit in the 13th place. On the other side, Spezia will has 20 points like FeralpiSalò and Lecco to sit in the 19th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Serie B, Pisa will play away with Cosenza on the 3rd of February with a 4-3 head to head statistic in favor of Cosenza (2 draws).
Spezia will host Catanzaro on the 3rd of February with a 1-0 head to head in favor of Catanzaro (0 draws).
Pisa – Formation
Pisa started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).
The manager Alberto Aquilani decided to play with the following team: Nicolas
, Arturo Calabresi , Antonio Caracciolo , Simone Canestrelli , Tomás Esteves , Marius Marin , Miguel Veloso , Alessandro Arena , Marco D’Alessandro , Jan Mlakar and Ernesto Torregrossa .The home team had on the bench: Hjörtur Hermannsson, Lisandru Tramoni
, Nicholas Bonfanti , Idrissa Touré , Pietro Beruatto, Leonardo Loria, Emanuel Vignato, Gaetano Masucci , Mattia Valoti , Stefano Moreo, Gabriele Piccinini and Tommaso Barbieri.Substitutions
Pisa made 5 changes: Miguel Veloso for Lisandru Tramoni (46′), Jan Mlakar for Mattia Valoti (63′), Ernesto Torregrossa for Nicholas Bonfanti (63′), Alessandro Arena for Gaetano Masucci (78′) and Tomás Esteves for Idrissa Touré (78′).
Player of the match: Marco D’Alessandro
The most impressive player for Pisa was Marco D’Alessandro.
His rating is
with 17 passes (78% accurate) and 1 key pass. He won 4 duels out of 7. He performed 5 crosses.Spezia – Formation
Spezia started with an extremely aggressive line-up (3-4-3).
Luca D’Angelo played with: Jeroen Zoet
, Nicolò Bertola , Petko Hristov , Dimitrios Nikolaou , Ales Mateju , Francesco Cassata , Salvatore Esposito , Luca Vignali , Daniele Verde , Diego Falcinelli and Rachid Kouda .They had on the bench: Francesco Pio Esposito
, Tio Cipot, Niccolò Pietra , Raimonds Krollis, Giovanni Corradini, Lukas Mühl, Luca Moro , Christian Cugnata, Gian Marco Crespi, Pietro Candelari, Mirko Antonucci and Filip Jagiełło .Spezia could not rely on the presence of Niccolò Pietra (injured).
Substitutions
Spezia made 4 changes: Luca Vignali for Filip Jagiełło (56′), Rachid Kouda for Niccolò Pietra (62′), Daniele Verde for Francesco Pio Esposito (77′) and Diego Falcinelli for Luca Moro (77′).
Player of the match: Jeroen Zoet
As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Spezia was the goalkeeper: Jeroen Zoet. His rating is 9.08. He performed 10 saves.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Serie B.
- Bari 1908 – Reggiana – 0-2
- Cremonese – Brescia – 1-0
- Venezia – Ternana – 1-0
- Südtirol – Cosenza – 0-1
- Pisa – Spezia – 2-3
- Modena – Parma – 3-0
- FeralpiSalò – Lecco – 5-1
- Como – Ascoli – 0-2