Bari’s late equalizer with Cremonese closes B’s Saturday
Serie B, the results of Saturday’s matches
Saturday’s Serie B schedule closes with Bari’s 1-1 draw with Cremonese: at the San Nicola è former Monza man Mattia Valoti opened the scoring, at 69', but Giovanni Stroppa’s team was caught up at 93', with Bari taking advantage of Bianchetti’s own goal.
Cremonese thus remains -9 from the third place occupied by Spezia, stopped a couple of d'hours earlier on 1-1 at home to Modena: Francesco Pio Esposito brings the Eagles ahead at 23' yellow-blù draw; by Defrel at 41'. Irrelevant to the final scoreline was the red card given to Palumbo, which left Modena in ten in the second half recovery minutes.
And' Sassuolo is always more at the top of the standings, which in a challenge seen in Serie A no moreù late than five years ago beats Brescia 2-0: to score Lovato at 34' and the "usual" Laurienté, at the thirteenth goal in the championship, at minute 73. Sassuolo thus climbs to 61, with 8 lengths on Pisa second: on Sunday against Cesena, the Nerazzurri must win in order not to permanently lose contact with the neroverdi.
At the lower levels of the standings, è Carrarese’s success over Salernitana was definitely important: Zanon on 31', Finotto on 41' and Zuelli on 53' gave the hosts a wide margin of advantage, the granata tried a comeback with goals by Reine-Adelaide on 63' and Soriano on 85' (a few seconds after his entrance) but went no further. Carrarese disengages from the playout zone and even comes within three points of eighth place, Salernitana, on the other hand, remains third'last.
In the day's other salvation challenge, Sudtirol revived its ambitions of staying in the cadet division by defeating a nervous Sampdoria 2-1: The initial thrashing, with the hosts’ goal by Merkaj at 6' and Sibilli's momentary equalizer at 11', was followed by the second caution to Ferrari in the first half recovery and that to Depaoli at 75', which left the blucerchiati in nine. Sudtirol won it forò only in the final, with Casiraghi'88's winning penalty: the Bolzano team thus hooks Samp itself at 28, on the edge of the playout zone.
