BENEVENTO. Benevento tops Crotone 3-1.

The match was played at the Stadio Ciro Vigorito stadium in Benevento on Saturday and it started at 4:15 pm local time. The referee was Antonio Giua who was helped by Claudio Gualtieri and Marco D’Ascanio. The 4th official was Marco Emmanuele. The weather was cloudy. The temperature was cold at 8.6 degrees Celsius or 47.46 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 75%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

None of the teams had a clear upper hand in terms of ball possession. Benevento was in possession of the ball for 49% of the time vs. Crotone that controlled the ball for 51% of the time.

Attitude and shots

Crotone had a more offensive attitude with 54 dangerous attacks and 9 shots of which 4 were on target. Notwithstanding, Benevento was able to find the solution to win this match.​

Benevento shot 11 times, 4 on target, 7 off target. Regarding the opposition, Crotone shot 9 times, 4 on target, 5 off target.

Cards

Benevento received 3 yellow cards (B. Gyamfi, A. Tello and R. Improta). Regarding the opposition, Crotone received 4 yellow cards (D. Schnegg, M. Marras, S. Canestrelli and B. Adekanye).

Standings

After playing this match, Benevento will have 50 points to remain in the 6th place. On the other side, Crotone will stay with 16 points to remain in the 19th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Serie B, Benevento will play away with Frosinone on the 19th of March with a 3-3 head to head record.

Crotone will play away agasint Monza on the 19th of March with a 0-0 head to head stats.

Benevento – Formation

Benevento started with a 4-3-1-2 line-up (4-3-1-2).

The manager Fabio Caserta decided to play with the following team: Alberto Paleari (6.9), Bright Gyamfi (6.7), Kamil Glik (7.3), Alessandro Vogliacco (6.8), Daam Foulon (6.7), Artur Ioniță (6.8), Gennaro Acampora (8.2), Riccardo Improta (7.1), Diego Farias (7.1), Gabriele Moncini (8.1) and Gianluca Lapadula (6.4).

The home team had on the bench: Nicolò Manfredini, Andrés Tello (7.3), Christian Pastina, Salvatore Elia (6.4), Angelo Talia, Giacomo Calò, Enrico Brignola, Clemente Tartaro, Jacopo Petriccione (6.8), Marco Sau, Edoardo Masciangelo and Francesco Forte (7.4).

Substitutions

Benevento made 4 changes: B. Gyamfi for A. Tello (46′), D. Farias for F. Forte (60′), G. Moncini for S. Elia (68′) and G. Lapadula for J. Petriccione (87′).

Best player: Gennaro Acampora​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Benevento was Gennaro Acampora even if he didn’t score any goal.

His rating is (8.2) with 56 passes (76% accurate) and 5 key passes. He was won 4 duels out of 6. He performed 9 crosses.

Crotone – Formation

Crotone started with a 3-4-1-2 line-up (3-4-1-2).

Francesco Modesto played with: Marco Festa (6.3), Simone Canestrelli (6.3), Vladimir Golemić (6.3), Ionuț Nedelcearu (6.8), Luca Calapai (6.5), Nahuel Estévez (6.4), Theophilus Awua (7.3), David Schnegg (6.2), Manuel Marras (6.8), Mirko Marić (6.8) and Samuele Mulattieri (7.4).

They had on the bench: Ben Lhassine Kone (6.5), Pasquale Giannotti, Thomas Schirò, Giuseppe Cuomo, Bobby Adekanye (6.4), Vasile Mogoș, Marco Sala (6.2), Miloš Vulić, Augustus Kargbo (6.5), Gianmarco Cangiano, Giuseppe Borello and Gianluca Saro.

Substitutions

Crotone made 4 changes: S. Canestrelli for A. Kargbo (60′), N. Estevez for B. L. Kone (61′), M. Marras for B. Adekanye (73′) and D. Schnegg for M. Sala (73′).

Best player: Samuele Mulattieri​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Crotone was Samuele Mulattieri.

His rating is (7.4) with 23 passes (69% accurate) and 1 key pass. He was won 5 duels out of 12. He performed 1 cross.

Results of the day

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

• Ternana – Cosenza – 2-0
• Reggina – Perugia – 0-1
• Monza – Vicenza – 4-0
• Benevento – Crotone – 3-1
• Pordenone – Como – 1-1
• Lecce – Brescia – 1-1
• SPAL – Ascoli – 1-2
• Frosinone – Alessandria – 3-0