Messina – Foggia 0-0
Messina (4-3-3): Krapikas 6.5, Lia 6, Gelli 6, Dumbravan 6, Haveri 6.5, Crimi 6, Buchel 6, Petrucci 5.5 (15 ‘St of L’Aquila 6.5), Garofalo 5.5 (42’ st Chiarella Sv), Tordini 5 (34 ‘st Costantino Sv), Luciani 5.5. On the bench: Meli, wholesale, De Sena, Marino, Mameli, Podicillo, Vicario, Anzelmo, Morichelli. All.: Cat 5.5
Foggia (4-3-3): Perina 6, Salinas 6.5 (31 ‘st Silvestro Sv), Parodi 6, DuTu 6.5, Felicioli 6, Tascone 6, Pazienza 6.5 (31’ st Mazzocco 5.5), Gala 6.5 (31 ‘st Kiyine Sv), Zunno 6.5, Touho 5 (17’ st Emmausso 5.5), Sarr 5.5. On the bench: De Simone, Testa, Santaniello, Orlando, Marzuoio, Da Riva, Brugognone, Spanò. All.: Dear 6.5
Referee: Still of Rome 6.5. Assistants: Franco di Padova and Meo di Nichelino
Notes: Ammonites: Sarr (F), Salinas (F), Gala (F), Lia (M), Buchel (M), Mazzocco (F), corners: 4-1. Recovery: 2 ‘pt and 5’ st
The high stakes affects a too fearful Messina, under pressure and which is too wrong in the setting phase. And so in the first leg-out the Giallorossi are forced to a disappointing 0-0 against Foggia.
It is precisely the Apulians, to whom two draws will be enough, who better impact the match: at the 11th first chance guest with a pocket shot, which ends beyond the crossbar, to which Crimi replies with a right on the fly that touches the crossing of the poles. At 23 ‘the punishment from the left of Tordini, directly on the goal, worries Perina, while at 31’ Crimi does not arrive for a short time at Lia’s cross on the second post.
The same trend in the second half, even if it is Messina who tries in the 56th minute with Gelli’s punishment, replied by the barrier and then with Tordini Alto’s shot. Then two occasions of the new entrance of L’Aquila who, headed, does not frame the door, while the Foggia is reviewed in the 65th minute, when the former Emmausso puts in the middle of the bottom, a deviation from two steps of Sarr, but Krapikas rejects instinctively. It is the best occasion of the game with the Apulians close to the advantage, while at 78 ‘Luciani wastes the counterattack of Dell’Aquila with a diagonal that ends up on the bottom. In the final, a shot by Kiyine is too central, while the final forcing of Messina leads to nothing and the triple whistle establishes an equal to white networks that satisfies only the Foggia. Salvation will decide next week at the “Zaccheria”, but Messina will have only one result available, the victory.