Reggina-Acireale 0-1 (suspended after the first half)
Markers: 41′ Di Mauro
Reggina (4-3-3): Martinez; Vesprini, Bonacchi, Girasole, Cham; Ba, Urso, Barillà; Provazza, Barranco, Giuliodori.
Available: Lazar, Adejo, Ragusa, Malara, Dall’Oglio, Forciniti, Ndoye, Rajkovic, Renelus.
All.: Pergolizzi
Acireale (3-5-2): Weeds; Elia, Cassese (39′ st Capogna), Kremenovich; Andreassi, Mal, Di Mauro, Dampha, Blaze; Sueva, Loukaris.
Available: Grotta, Spinelli, Fangwa, De Mutiis, Milo, Esposito, Tortora, Tripicchio.
All.: Epifani
Referee: Andrea Giordani of Aprilia
Assistants: Michele Nappi from Latina and Benedetto Casale from Formia
Ammonites: Pergolizzi, Andreassi, Barillà, Ba
Expelled: Ba at 42′
Corners: 2-0
Recovery: 5′
Spectators: 3,034 (of which 30 guests)
Reggina-Acireale stops at halftime. The match, with the guests ahead 1-0, was interrupted due to an illness suffered by referee Andrea Giordani of Aprilia. This is the communication that has arrived and which will in fact lead the challenge to end on another date.
Reggina found itself behind in a match that it had practically dominated from start to finish. The Amaranths had managed to create several scoring opportunities, but without ever finding the clarity to finish in the best possible way towards the goal or identify the right last play.
Circumstances that increase the responsibility for the result of the hosts, who went down on the occasion of a poorly controlled restart. In the 41st minute Capogna went away on the right and put a ball in the middle which was blocked short by Girasole. Without any midfield coverage, Di Mauro had time to shoot from the edge of the box from a favorable position. The ball, after hitting the two internal posts, went into the bag.
Immediately after the Sicilian lead, Ba received a red card which made the challenge uphill for the Amaranth team. And he will also add recovery, considering that the regulation match will resume from the 46th minute and with the Amaranths outnumbered.
The suspension of the match was the epilogue of a day in which the match director left amid deafening boos from the entire Granillo at the end of the first half. The match, after the referees and the teams returned to the locker rooms, never resumed. Two incidents were contested by the match owners: a penalty not awarded on Vesprini around the quarter of an hour of play and then the aforementioned expulsion of Ba for protests.
Initially, with the two teams on the pitch without the referee, a fifteen minute delay was announced. The suspension of the match was made official around 4.45pm.
In Serie D there is no fourth official who can replace the referee.