Serie A | Verona 1-0 Fiorentina: Viola fall again with added Kean scare

Originally posted on Football Italia | By Susy Campanale | Last updated Feb 23, 2025 11:00 AM ET

Fiorentina fell to a third consecutive Serie A defeat, as Hellas Verona made their pressure count in stoppages, but there was a scare with Moise Kean stretchered off.

The Viola were coming off back-to-back defeats to Inter and Como, with Kean returning from suspension, but Robin Gosens banned instead. Albert Gudmundsson, Andrea Colpani and Yacine Adli were still out of action. Hellas had Domagoj Bradaric suspended with Casper Tengstedt, Suat Serdar, Martin Frese and Abdou Harroui injured.

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Michael Folorunsho stood up a cross for Kean in the fourth minute, the header forcing a tough save from point-blank range, while Nicolò Zaniolo couldn’t get much power on an almost identical move.

Amin Sarr stung David De Gea’s gloves from distance with a sudden dipping strike, while Kean scuffed the finish on a Zaniolo pull-back from the right.

Zaniolo was both offside and prodded it over from point-blank range after an acrobatic Folorunsho flick on.

Verona came out fighting for the second half, Pietro Comuzzo preventing the Marco Davide Faraoni reaching Sarr, then Dailon Livramento’s angled drive flashed across the face of goal.

Kean needed stitches on the side of the pitch after being left with a cut to his eyebrow in an accidental three-way collision.

Luca Ranieri threw himself in the path of a Sarr’s strike on the Suslov assist, but Kean was visibly struggling and practically fainted a couple of minutes after coming back on. Medics eventually stretchered him off with a neck brace for added security and he was taken to a local hospital for tests.

Pawel Dawidowicz nodded another Faraoni cross just past the far post, while Daniel Mosquera failed to connect his diving header to the Jackson Tchatchoua assist.

Comuzzo made another decisive defensive block to stop the tap-in on one more Tchatchoua low cross from the left, while Montipò rushed off his line to smother at the feet of Zaniolo.

Verona finally made all their pressure count deep into stoppages when Pablo Mari slid in to intercept the Mosquera through ball, but the ricochet took it into the path of Antoine Bernede, shrugging off Comuzzo to slide past on-rushing De Gea.

Verona 1-0 Fiorentina

Bernede 95 (V)

23-02-2025 14:00 MatchDay 26 Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi

Verona

Fiorentina 1 - 0

Player statistic

1st half

Ondrej Duda

41'

2nd half

	51'	Michael Folorunsho
	70'	Amir Richardson
Daniel Oyegoke	88'
Antoine Bernede

90+5' 90+7'

Danilo Cataldi Verona Fiorentina

Starting lineups

Lorenzo Montipò Goalkeeper 5

Davide Faraoni Defender 77' 42 Diego Coppola Defender Nicolás Valentini Defender 27

Pawel Dawidowicz Defender 33

Ondrej Duda Midfielder 9 Amin Sarr Attacker 77' 10

Cheikh Niasse Attacker 14

Dailon Rocha Livramento Attacker 71' 38 Jackson Tchatchoua Attacker 31

Tomas Suslov Attacker 43

David de Gea Goalkeeper 2

Dodô Defender 65 Fabiano Parisi Defender 6

Luca Ranieri Defender 73' 15 Pietro Comuzzo Defender 32

Danilo Cataldi Midfielder 90 Michael Folorunsho Midfielder 72'

Nicolò Zaniolo Midfielder 84' 8

Rolando Mandragora Midfielder 67' 9

Lucas Beltrán Attacker 20

Moise Kean Attacker

67'

Substitutes

Darko Lazovic Midfielder 20

Grigoris Kastanos Midfielder 34 Simone Perilli Goalkeeper 15 Yllan Okou Defender 4 Flavius Daniliuc Defender 98 Federico Magro Goalkeeper 80 Alphadjo Cissè Attacker 87 Daniele Ghilardi Defender 7 Mathis Lambourde Attacker 72 Junior Ajayi Attacker Tobias Slotsager Defender

Antoine Bernede Midfielder 71' 35 Daniel Mosquera Attacker 77' 2 Daniel Oyegoke Defender 77' 1

Pietro Terracciano Goalkeeper 5

Marin Pongracic Defender 30 Tommaso Martinelli Goalkeeper 64 Jonas Harder Midfielder 22 Matías Moreno Defender

Nicolò Fagioli Midfielder 67' 24 Amir Richardson Midfielder 67' Cher Ndour Midfielder 72'

Pablo Marí Defender 73' 63

Maat Daniel Caprini Attacker

84'

This article first appeared on Football Italia and was syndicated with permission.

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