Serie B promotion play-off: Cremonese crush Catanzaro

Originally posted on Football Italia | By Susy Campanale | Last updated 5/25/24

Cremonese demolished Catanzaro 4-1 on the night to set up their Serie B promotion play-off final against Venezia.

Those Serie B two-legged ties will be played on May 30 and June 2.

The first leg of this semi-final had been a 2-2 thriller on May 21, so it was in theory wide open, but Cremonese made short work of their opponents once back on home turf.

Michele Castagnetti saw his strike flapped onto the upright in the third minute, which was only a warning before Franco ‘El Mudo’ Vasquez opened the scoring with a left-foot scorcher into the far top corner from the edge of the box.

It was followed soon after by Cristian Buonaiuto with an unorthodox acrobatic volley on the Castagnetti pass, then Massimo Coda with a simple tap-in set up by Vazquez.

As if that weren’t bad enough, Catanzaro saw Enrico Brignola sent off for dissent.

Leonardo Sernicola added the fourth on a Michele Collocolo pull-back from the by-line and Catanzaro had one tiny consolation goal with Matias Antonini.

Catanzaro thought they had another late on, but Alfredo Donnarumma’s goal was disallowed.

Serie B promotion play-off semi-final

Cremonese 4-1 Catanzaro (6-3 agg)

Vazquez 12 (Cr), Buonaiuto 19 (Cr), Coda 38 (Cr), Sernicola 70 (Cr), Antonini 80 (Ca)

Sent off: Brignola 63 (Ca)

25-05-2024 19:30 1/2 Final Stadio Giovanni Zini

Cremonese

Catanzaro 4 - 1

Player statistic

1st half

Franco Vázquez (Assist: Massimo Coda)	12'
Cristian Buonaiuto (Assist: Michele Castagnetti)	19'
Massimo Coda (Assist: Valentin Antov)	37'
	44'	Matias Antonini

2nd half

		55'		Stefano Scognamillo
		63'

Enrico Brignola 66'

Marco Pompetti Leonardo Sernicola (Assist: Zan Majer) 69' 80'

Matias Antonini

Match statistic

46 Possession % 54 13 Total shots 10 6 Shots on target 2 4 Shots off target 4 3 Blocked shots 4 5 Corners 6 1 Offsides 4 21 Fouls 8 Cremonese Catanzaro

Starting lineups

Gianluca Saro Goalkeeper 17

Leonardo Sernicola Defender 5 Luca Ravanelli Defender 46' 15 Matteo Bianchetti Defender 26

Valentin Antov Defender 6

Charles Pickel Midfielder 61' 20

Franco Vázquez Midfielder 61' 19 Michele Castagnetti Midfielder 10 Cristian Buonaiuto Attacker 55' 98 Luca Zanimacchia Attacker 72' 90 Massimo Coda Attacker 1

Andrea Fulignati Goalkeeper 72 Davide Veroli Defender 4 Matias Antonini Defender 14 Stefano Scognamillo Defender 33 Andrea Oliveri Midfielder 24 Dimitrios Sounas Midfielder 46' 10

Jacopo Petriccione Midfielder 83' 27 Jari Vandeputte Midfielder 20

Simone Pontisso Midfielder 46' 9 Pietro Iemmello Attacker 84' 28 Tommaso Biasci Attacker

59'

Substitutes

22 Andreas Jungdal Goalkeeper 71

Dennis Johnsen Attacker 4

Luca Marrone Defender 74 Frank Tsadjout Attacker 9

Daniel Ciofani Attacker 33 Giacomo Quagliata Defender 32 Gonzalo Abrego Midfielder 44 Luka Lochoshvili Defender 46' 8 Michele Collocolo Midfielder 55' 37

Zan Majer Midfielder 61' 7

César Falletti Midfielder 61' 18

Paolo Ghiglione Midfielder 72' 23

Nicolò Brighenti Defender 32

Luka Krajnc Defender 92

Mario Situm Attacker 16 Andrea Sala Goalkeeper 44 Kevin Miranda Defender 41 Alessandro Viotti Attacker 40 Giacint Rafele Attacker 17

Enrico Brignola Attacker 46' 21 Marco Pompetti Midfielder 46' 99

Alfredo Donnarumma Attacker 59' 8 Luca Verna Midfielder 83' 19

Matteo Stoppa Attacker

84'

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

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