Syracuse Crotone 1-3
Scorers: 29′ pt Contini (penalty); 37′ pt Zunno; 45’+3′ pt Vinicius; 18′ st Gomez (penalty).
Syracuse: Farroni 6, Puzone 5 (20′ st Zanini 6), Pacciardi 5.5 (28′ st Capomaggio 6), Bonacchi 5.5 (28′ st Di Gesù 6), Cancellieri 5, Candiano 5.5, Gudelevicius 5.5 (20′ st Sbaffo 6), Di Paolo 6 (35′ st Pannitteri sv), Limonelli 5.5, Contini 6, Arditi 5.5. Annex Turati 5.5.
Crotone: Merelli 6.5, Novella 7.5 (38′ st Andreoni sv), Cocetta 7, Di Pasquale 7, Groppelli 6.5, Gallo 7 (28′ st Calvano 6), Vinicius 6.5, Sandri 6.5, Gomez 7 (47′ st Energe sv), Piovanello 6 (28′ st Maggio), Zunno 8 (38′ st Armini sv). All. Longo 7.
Referee: Castellone di Napoli 6.5.
Notes: ammonites Novella, Pacciardi, Vinicius; corners 4-2; rec. 6′-7′; spectators 3,113.
The rule of the perfect number is Crotone’s ace in the hole: three goals and also three important points forfeited to “De Simone”. In the 27th minute, the episode that unlocks the match: Gudelevicius, served by Puzone, goes down to the right top of the area, brought down by Groppelli. Referee Castellone uses the VAR to decree the penalty, converted by Contini for the Aretusean advantage. But Zunno scores in the 37th minute, almost scoring a penalty on the move after having gone over Puzone like a skittle. Calabria overtake in the 3rd minute of added time in the first half: Vinicius enters the area from the left, dribbles and hits Farroni with a diagonal shot into the far corner. It resumed with Crotone who closed the match in the 18th minute: from a corner, Cancellieri clearly pulled Gomez’s shirt. It’s a penalty: on Gomez’s shot, Farroni guesses but doesn’t avoid the goal.