REGGIO DI CALABRIA. Perugia overcome Reggina. Reggina was decisively better in terms of ball possession (73%).
Perugia remained in players after S. Santoro received a double yellow card in the 55′. Anyway, Perugia still managed to win this contest competing only with 10 players.
The match was played at the Stadio Oreste Granillo stadium in Reggio di Calabria on Saturday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. In front of 8,974 spectators. The referee was Francesco Meraviglia with the support of Davide Moro and Thomas Miniutti. The 4th official was Fabio Rosario Luongo. The weather was clear. The temperature was pleasant at 23.1 degrees Celsius or 73.53 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 64%.
Match Statistics
Ball possession
Reggina had a strong ball possession 73% while Perugia was struggling with a 27% ball possession.
Attitude and shots
Reggina had a more offensive attitude with 86 dangerous attacks and 29 shots of which 15 were on target. Even so, Perugia was able to find the solution to win this match.
Reggina shot 29 times, 15 on target, 14 off target. Talking about the opposition, Perugia shot 10 times, 7 on target, 3 off target.
Cards
Reggina received 2 yellow cards (Z. Majer and T. Cionek). On the other side, Perugia received 3 yellow cards (Y. Paz, S. Santoro and ).
Also, Perugia didn’t finish the match with 11 players after S. Santoro (Perugia) was sent off after receiving a second yellow card (55′).
Match Timeline
Standings
After this encounter, Reggina will stay with 18 points like Bari 1908 to sit in the 4th place. On the other side, Perugia will have 7 points like Pisa to hold in the 20th place.
Next matches
In the next match in the Serie B, Reggina will play away with Bari 1908 on the 13th of May with a 4-1 head to head in favor of Reggina (1 draw).
Perugia will play away agasint Bari 1908 on the 28th of January with a 5-1 head to head record in favor of Bari 1908 (4 draws).
Reggina – Formation
Reggina
60'
70'
88'
Reggina started with a aggressive line-up (4-3-3).
The manager Filippo Inzaghi decided to play with the following team: Simone Colombi , Niccolò Pierozzi , Thiago Cionek , Riccardo Gagliolo , Gianluca Di Chiara , Hernani , Žan Majer , Giovanni Fabbian , Federico Ricci , Jérémy Ménez and Rigoberto Rivas .
The home team had on the bench: Luigi Canotto, Michele Camporese, Daniele Liotti, Tommaso Aglietti, Emanuele Cicerelli , Joel Obi, Giuseppe Loiacono, Gabriele Gori , Devid Eugene Bouah, Federico Giraudo, Lorenzo Crisetig and Federico Ravaglia.
Substitutions
Reggina made 4 changes: Hernani for G. Gori (57′), F. Ricci for E. Cicerelli (57′), G. Di Chiara for L. Crisetig (70′) and R. Rivas for L. Canotto (76′).
Best player: Žan Majer
The most impressive player for Reggina was Žan Majer.
His rating is with 52 passes (86% accurate) and 0 key passes. He was won 3 duels out of 4. He performed 1 cross.
Perugia – Formation
Perugia
55'
Perugia started with a 3-5-2 line-up (3-5-2).
Fabrizio Castori played with: Stefano Gori , Filippo Sgarbi , Marcos Curado , Cristian Dell’Orco , Tiago Casasola , Edoardo Iannoni , Paolo Bartolomei , Simone Santoro , Yeferson Paz , Federico Melchiorri and Luca Strizzolo .
The following players were sitting on the bench: Miloš Vulić, Samuele Righetti, Samuel Di Carmine, Gregorio Luperini , Marco Olivieri, Christian Kouan, Stipe Vulikić, Luca Moro, Giuseppe Di Serio and Francesco Lisi.
Substitutions
Perugia made 2 changes: L. Strizzolo for G. Luperini (57′) and F. Melchiorri for G. Di Serio (71′).
Best player: Stefano Gori
The most impressive player for Perugia was the goalkeeper: Stefano Gori. His rating is 9.12. He performed 11 saves.
Results of the day
These are the results of the day in the Serie B.
- Frosinone – Bari 1908 – 1-0
- Reggina – Perugia – 2-3
- Ternana – Genoa – 1-2
- Südtirol – Parma – 1-0
- SPAL – Cosenza – 5-0
- Como – Benevento – 2-1
- Brescia – Venezia – 1-1
