Serie B 07/08

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Top scorers:

Player Club Goals
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Castillo Pisa 10 (1 pen)
Cellini Albinoleffe 10 (3)
Granoche Triestina 9 (3)
Soncin Ascoli 9 (4)
Bruno Modena 8
Lodi Frosinone 8 (3)
Cerci Pisa 7
Guidetti Spezia 7
Possanzini Brescia 7
Succi Ravenna 7 (1)
Jeda Rimini 7 (2)

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Week #14 fixtures:

Ascoli - Frosinone
Avellino - Vicenza
Bologna - Chievo
Brescia - Albinoleffe
Lecce - Modena
Messina - Pisa
Piacenza - Ravenna
Rimini - Cesena
Spezia - Bari
Treviso - Mantova
Triestina - Grosseto

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Originally Posted by Joel

After Week #13:

Albinoleffe 29
Pisa 28
Brescia 27
Chievo 27
Bologna 25
Lecce 22
Frosinone 21
Modena 19
Rimini 19
Ascoli 18
Mantova 18
Grosseto 17
Messina 16
Bari 14
Piacenza 13
Ravenna 12
Spezia (-1) 12
Vicenza 12
Triestina 11
Treviso 9
Avellino 8
Cesena 7

Egad! Imagine Albinoleffe in Serie A?

Brescia and Bologna would be better candidates.

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Fair point.

Add Chievo to that list as well.

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Week #14 results:

Ascoli 2-0 Frosinone
Avellino 3-0 Vicenza
Bologna 4-0 Chievo
Brescia 1-2 Albinoleffe
Lecce 2-0 Modena
Messina 1-2 Pisa
Piacenza 2-0 Ravenna
Rimini 4-1 Cesena
Spezia 1-1 Bari
Treviso 2-2 Mantova
Triestina 4-0 Grosseto

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Week 14 - Reports

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Ascoli 2-0 Frosinone
Ascoli put together a third home win on the trot and catch Frosinone in the Serie B table. There was only ever one team in it, as Job unleashed a right-foot screamer and on the hour mark Bernacci pounced on a goalkeeping error.
Scorers: Job 22 (A), Bernacci 61 (A)
Ascoli: Taibi; Aquilanti (Minieri 85), Melucci, Micolucci, Pesce; Guberti, Di Donato, Luci, Job (Perrulli 57); Soncin (Maniero 89), Bernacci
Frosinone: Sicignano; Pagani, Ischia, Scarlato, Bocchetti (Fialdini 78); Lodi, Pecchia, Amerini, Cariello; Martini (Dedic 57), Evacuo
Ref: Squillace
Attendance: 6,914

Avellino 3-0 Vicenza
Avellino put in probably their best performance of the season so far in a relegation dogfight with 10-man Vicenza, who inevitably suffered after Masiello’s dismissal for an elbow on Porcari just 32 minutes in. Pellicori ran on to Sestu’s through ball for the opener and the upright denied both Paonessa’s free kick and a Sestu solo effort. Zancope’ missed another Sestu cross, giving Salgado an open goal to nod into. Pellicori completed his brace by pouncing on another defensive error from the inspirational Sestu’s assist.
Scorers: Pellicori 47, 85 (A), Salgado 80 (A)
Sent off: Masiello 32 (V)
Avellino: Gragnaniello; Maietta, Mengoni, De Angelis; Sestu, Anastasi, Di Cecco (Quadri 82), Porcari; Salgado (Carbone 75), Paonessa (Bracaletti 86); Pellicori
Vicenza: Zancope`; Martinelli, Scardina, Cudini, Nastos; Raimondi, Helguera, Morosini (Rigoni 84), Masiello; Capone (Serafini 69), Sforzini (Dal Bosco 54)
Ref: Cavarretta
Attendance: 3,462

Bologna 4-0 Chievo
This was a show of force from the Rossoblu in an early promotion play-off at the Stadio Dall’Ara, as Chievo were well and truly crushed. It was former Flying Donkey Marazzina who took centre stage with a brace in six minutes, getting in front of his markers to nod in Adailton’s corner kick and then leaving Squizzi stranded with a lob. On the stroke of half-time defender Daino also took advantage of some Chievo problems from set-pieces, nodding in another Adailton corner. The visitors were in the game, but Antonioli’s series of saves denied Pellissier and Luciano. Mantovani was shown a straight red card for a professional foul on Daino and moments later substitute Di Gennaro blasted into the top corner with his left foot.
Scorers: Marazzina 26, 32 (B), Daino 43 (B), Di Gennaro 83 (B)
Sent off: Mantovani 82 (C)
Bologna: Antonioli; Daino, Terzi, Castellini, Bonetto; Confalone (Mingazzini 64), Carrus, Amoroso (Della Rocca 75); Adailton; Fava, Marazzina (Di Gennaro 77)
Chievo: Squizzi; Cesar, Mandelli, Mantovani, Chiecchi (Rickler 79); Bentivoglio, Marcolini, Troiano (Obinna 61); Luciano, Gasparetto, Pellissier
Ref: Morganti
Attendance: 12,504

Brescia 1-2 Albinoleffe
Albinoleffe are not just a flash in the pan, as they conquered the Stadio Rigamonti in this head-to-head leadership battle and further extended their advantage. Brescia had the better of the first half with a Stankevicius header over and Del Prato’s goalline clearance on Zoboli, but straight after the restart ‘Leffe wasted a spot-kick. Santacroce saw red for his foul and Viviano saved Cellini’s penalty. Cellini made up for it moments later by meeting a corner kick, but Tacchinardi equalised from distance. It seemed to be heading towards a draw, but in the final minutes Ruopolo snatched the away victory with his fifth goal of the season. Serse Cosmi’s men poured forward, but were unable to turn it around.
Scorers: Cellini 56 (A), Tacchinardi 79 (B), Ruopolo 87 (A)
Sent off: Santacroce 47 (B)
Missed penalty: Cellini 47 (A)
Brescia: Viviano; Santacroce, Zoboli, Stankevicius; Zambelli, Tacchinardi, Zambrella (Depetris 60), Lima, Mannini; Feczesin (Scaglia 72), Bazzani (Fofana 83)
Albinoleffe: Marchetti; Colombo (Madonna 73), Gervasoni, Conteh, Peluso; Gori, Del Prato, Carobbio, Cristiano (Poloni 87); Cellini (Ferrari 70), Ruopolo
Ref: Farina
Attendance: 5,973

Lecce 2-0 Modena
Lecce struggled to get the better of nine-man Modena, only truly securing the points in stoppages. Abbruscato got them off to a strong start and when Gozzi and Frey both saw red in the first half, a rout was expected. However, Tiribocchi was cut short by the upright and Bruno risked snatching an equaliser by forcing a save out of Rosati. Vives sealed the 2-0 scoreline in the final moments, but despite the victory the home fans were in no mood to celebrate.
Scorers: Abbruscato 17 (L), Vives 93 (L)
Sent off: Gozzi 28 (M), Frey 38 (M)
Lecce: Rosati; Schiavi, Diamoutene, Giuliatto; Ardito, Ariatti, Munari, Polenghi (Cottafava 52), Zanchetta (Vives 46); Abbruscato (Valdes 56), Tiribocchi
Modena: Frezzolini; Antonazzo, Frey, Gozzi, Tamburini (Koffi 84); Ungari, Giampa`, Longo, Pani (Nicoletti 75); Bruno, Colacone (Fantini 80)
Ref: De Marco
Attendance: 5,065

Messina 1-2 Pisa
Pisa are unstoppable at the moment and have now won seven of their eight away games. It was Messina who thought they would be challenging for promotion this season, but a third straight defeat leaves them struggling mid-table. Castillo broke the deadlock with a fine solo effort, skipping past Parisi down the right to smash a left-foot shot past Manitta. Under-21 international Cerci made it 2-0 thanks to his left-foot thunderbolt and a late Parisi free kick was too late to be anything other than a consolation for the Sicilians..
Scorers: Castillo 65 (P), Cerci 75 (P), Parisi 86 (M)
Messina: Manitta; Galeoto, Zanchi, Stendardo, Parisi; Pestrin, D’Aversa (Surraco 78), Cordova; Moro, Degano (Arigo` 78), Biancolino (Bernardo 91)
Pisa: Morello; Zoppetti, Raimondi, Lorenzi, Zavagno; Cerci, Braiati, Genevier, D’Anna (Carrozza 82); Kutuzov, Castillo
Ref: Romeo
Attendance: 4,055

Piacenza 2-0 Ravenna
Piacenza are now unbeaten in three, although it took a late flurry of goals to get all the points off Ravenna. Simon had a strike disallowed in the frst half for an offside flag and Sciaccaluga’s goalline clearance denied Miglionico. The match was decided in the final 15 minutes with two headers, Kharja getting on the end of a corner kick and Aspas redirecting a Bianchi cross.
Scorers: Kharja 75 (P), Aspas 87 (P)
Piacenza: Cassano; Nef, Iorio, Miglionico, Gemiti; Kharja (Anaclerio 89), Patrascu, Rantier (Olivi 87); Bianchi, Padalino (Aspas 61); Simon
Ravenna: Pardini; Pivotto, Ferrario, Anzalone, Fasano; Pizzolla, Olive (Larosa 64), Sciaccaluga, Toledo (Aloe 78); Succi (Fofana 78), Chianese
Ref: Tommasi
Attendance: 2,882

Rimini 4-1 Cesena
Rimini sent Cesena hurtling to the foot of the table with this crushing result. Peccarisi had already shaken the crossbar after 10 minutes and Biasi may have got the final touch to Lunardini’s effort for an own goal. Moscardelli earned and converted a penalty against his former club, but it only lasted three minutes until Jeda restored the advantage with an angled drive. Ricchiuti and a Jeda header completed the rout.
Scorers: Lunardini 23 (R), Moscardelli pen 32 (C), Jeda 35, 56 (R), Ricchiuti 41 (R)
Rimini: Consigli; Vitiello, Milone, Peccarisi (Porchia 74), Regonesi; Cardinale, Lunardini; Pagano, Ricchiuti (La Camera 70), Valiani; Jeda (Docente 83)
Cesena: Berti; Turati, Ola, Biasi, Cortellini; De Feudis, Botta; Vascak (Piccoli 46), Mezavilla (Ferretti 46), Croce (Sacilotto 61); Moscardelli
Ref: Giannoccaro
Attendance: 7,579

Spezia 1-1 Bari
The points were shared in this relegation dogfight. Bari impressed with Rajcic and took the lead before the break with Santoruvo’s tap-in. Tabbiani should have put the win beyond doubt only to blast off target in front of an open goal and was made to pay for that error, as Do Prado’s fantastic free kick from 30 metres rocketed into the top corner.
Scorers: Santoruvo 42 (B), Do Prado 64 (S)
Spezia: Dazzi; Camorani, Bianchi, Pecorari, Giuliano; Biso (Eliakwu 46); Do Prado, Frara, Saverino, Gorzegno; Guidetti
Bari: Gillet; Belmonte, Di Dio, Stellini, Loseto (Antonelli 90); Tabbiani, Gazzi, Rajcic, Bonanni; Santoruvo, Lanzafame (Ganci 66)
Ref: Scoditti
Attendance: 6,732

Treviso 2-2 Mantova
Fiore snatched an important equaliser and it is Treviso’s first draw of the campaign. It was an entertaining encounter, as Godeas had opened the scoring against his former club to meet Balestri’s cross when the home defence was busy arguing with the referee. Just four minutes later, Mantova were trailing 2-1, as Beghetto’s left-foot daisy-cutter was quickly followed by Bonucci redirecting Guigou’s free kick. Fiore struck after the restart by getting in front of Bonucci to turn in Tarana’s pass.
Scorers: Godeas 29 (M), Beghetto 32 (T), Bonucci 33 (T), Fiore 50 (M)
Treviso: Calderoni; Bonucci (Baccin 82), Viali, Dal Canto, Smit; Russotto (Quadrini 86), Gissi, Guigou, Scaglia; Beghetto (Piovaccari 74), Barreto
Mantova: Pegolo; Sacchetti, Notari, Di Cesare, Balestri; Tarana, Passoni, Grauso (Spinale 38), Caridi (Lucenti 78); Fiore; Godeas
Ref: Velotto
Attendance: 3,505

Triestina 4-0 Grosseto
Triestina finally end their six-match winless streak and Grosseto’s unbeaten run of seven rounds, but a red card made the difference in this game. Sgrigna was the hero for the home side, as within four minutes he earned a penalty converted by Granoche, then Valeri’s dismissal left Grosseto with a mountain to climb. Sgrigna continued to shine as he bagged a brace with a header and a fierce left-foot strike into the top corner. Mignani scored an own goal in favour of his former club to finish off the rout.
Scorers: Granoche pen 4 (T), Sgrigna 48, 59 (T), Mignani og 78 (T)
Sent off: Valeri 26 (G)
Triestina: Dei; Milani, Lima, Kyriazis, Pesaresi; Sgrigna (Cristofaro 77), Allegretti, Piangerelli, Testini (Da Dalt 34); Sedivec, Granoche (Graffiedi 70)
Grosseto: Bressan; Terra, Mignani, Abruzzese (Gessa 54); Innocenti, Valeri, Lazzari, Virga; Zecchin (Moro 29); Paulinho, Carparelli (Carboni 79)
Ref: Herberg
Attendance: 6,021

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After Week #14:

Albinoleffe 32
Pisa 31
Bologna 28
Brescia 27
Chievo 27
Lecce 25
Rimini 22
Ascoli 21
Frosinone 21
Mantova 19
Modena 19
Grosseto 17
Piacenza 16
Messina 16
Bari 15
Triestina 14
Spezia (-1) 13
Vicenza 12
Ravenna 12
Avellino 11
Treviso 10
Cesena 7

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Top scorers:

Player Club Goals
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Castillo Pisa 11 (1 pen)
Cellini Albinoleffe 10 (3)
Granoche Triestina 10 (4)
Jeda Rimini 9 (2)
Soncin Ascoli 9 (4)
Bruno Modena 8
Cerci Pisa 8
Lodi Frosinone 8 (3)
Godeas Mantova 7
Guidetti Spezia 7
Possanzini Brescia 7
Succi Ravenna 7 (1)
Bernacci Ascoli 6
Abbruscato Lecce 5
Pellissier Chievo 5
Ruopolo Albinoleffe 5
Tiribocchi Lecce 5
Longo Modena 5 (1)
Adailton Bologna 5 (2)
Moscardelli Cesena 5 (2)

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Week #18 results:

Ascoli P-P Brescia
Avellino 3-1 Cesena
Bologna 1-0 Grosseto
Chievo 2-3 Mantova
Frosinone 0-0 Vicenza
Lecce 3-0 Albinoleffe
Piacenza 2-0 Triestina
Ravenna 1-1 Modena
Rimini 1-1 Pisa
Spezia 2-0 Messina
Treviso 1-2 Bari

Ascoli-Brescia called off due to snow.

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After Week #18:

Bologna 39
Albinoleffe 36
Lecce 35
Pisa 35
Chievo 34
Mantova 31
Brescia 30
Rimini 29
Frosinone 25
Messina 25
Ascoli 24
Modena 23
Triestina 23
Piacenza 22
Bari 20
Grosseto 19
Spezia (-1) 19
Avellino 16
Treviso 15
Ravenna 13
Vicenza 13
Cesena 11

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Top scorers:

Player Club Goals
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Castillo Pisa 14 (2 pens)
Godeas Mantova 12
Cellini Albinoleffe 12 (3)
Jeda Rimini 11 (2)
Granoche Triestina 11 (4)
Lodi Frosinone 9 (3)
Soncin Ascoli 9 (4)
Beghetto Treviso 8
Bruno Modena 8
Cerci Pisa 8
Guidetti Spezia 8
Marazzina Bologna 8
Possanzini Brescia 8
Tiribocchi Lecce 8
Succi Ravenna 7 (1)
Biancolino Messina 7 (2)
Moscardelli Cesena 7 (2)

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The Lega Calcio has also confirmed that Serie B Week 18 game Ascoli-Brescia will now be played on February 26, kick-off at 19.30.

The match was originally called off on December 15 as the Stadio Del Duca was under a snowstorm.

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Week #20 results:

Ascoli 1-1 Modena
Avellino 3-2 Bari
Bologna 3-0 Mantova
Chievo 2-0 Grosseto
Frosinone 0-0 Brescia
Lecce 0-0 Messina
Piacenza 0-0 Cesena
Ravenna 0-1 Vicenza
Rimini 0-0 Albinoleffe
Spezia 1-4 Pisa
Treviso 2-0 Triestina

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Week 20 - Reports

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Ascoli 1-1 Modena
The game was decided in the space of eight minutes at the Stadio Del Duca between two teams who are not in the best shape right now. Perrulli thought he had earned the points for Ascoli, but soon after Roma youth product Okaka grabbed an equaliser out of nowhere into the top corner. Before then, Perrulli and Guberti had gone close for the home side.
Scorers: Perrulli 71 (A), Okaka 79 (M)
Ascoli: Taibi; Giallombardo, Guberti, Bernacci, Di Donato; Job, Luci, Aquilanti, Micolucci; Cioffi, Soncin
Modena: Narciso; Ricchi, Bolano, Pinardi, Bruno; Antonazzo, Pani, Gozzi, Giampà; Gilioli, Frey
Ref: Marelli
Attendance: 5,955

Avellino 3-2 Bari
Antonio Conte had a disappointing debut on the Bari bench in this entertaining encounter at the Partenio. Hungarian Kenesei opened the scoring before Cavalli's screamer and Antonelli's header turned it all around. Avellino fought back in the second half with Pellicori first drawing level by making the most of a defensive error, then converting a late penalty for a foul on Di Cecco.
Scorers: Kenesei 11 (A), Cavalli 26 (B), Antonelli 42 (B), Pellicori 52, pen 85 (A)
Sent off: Esposito 93 (B)
Avellino: Gragnaniello; Maietta, Mengoni, De Angelis; Carbone, Di Cecco (Quadri 88), Porcari, Tombesi (Anastasi 55); Paonessa, Kenesei (Bracaletti 79); Pellicori
Bari: Gillet; Ingrosso, Esposito, Stellini, Antonelli (Allegrini 83); Tabbiani (Bonanni 59), Carozza, Rajcic, Strambelli (Ganci 69); Cavalli, Lanzafame
Ref: Scoditti
Attendance: 3,867

Bologna 3-0 Mantova
Marazzina was the hat-trick hero as Bologna mauled promotion rivals Mantova. He opened his tally with a towering header from Lavecchia’s cross, then the visitors were unlucky not to equalise as Passoni hit the crossbar straight from the corner flag and Corona’s follow-up was tipped over the bar by Antonioli. Fiore also tested the Rossoblu goalkeeper and Daino’s goalline clearance kept out Caridi, but Marazzina took control in the second half. The former Chievo striker pounced on a Sacchetti error, then turned in Daino’s cross from the right. January signing Bucchi also made his debut for Bologna.
Scorers: Marazzina 16, 58, 71 (B)
Bologna: Antonioli; Daino, Terzi, Castellini, Bonetto; Lavecchia, Mingazzini, Carrus, Della Rocca (Confalone 82); Fava (Bucchi 65), Marazzina (Colomba 88)
Mantova: Pegolo; Sacchetti (Calori 63), Notari, Di Cesare, Balestri; Spinale, Passoni (Doga 62); Tarana, Fiore (Lucenti 71), Caridi; Corona
Ref: Farina
Attendance: 13,678

Chievo 2-0 Grosseto
Chievo made hard work of little Grosseto and struggled to a 2-0 victory. Marcolini had the opportunity to open the scoring after 19 minutes, but saw his penalty saved by Bressan. The Flying Donkeys regrouped and made up for the error when defender Mandelli rose for a powerful header. The result remained in the balance until the final nine minutes, when Pellissier struck to make the points safe.
Scorers: Mandelli 29 (C), Pellissier 81 (C)
Missed penalty: Marcolini 19 (C)
Chievo: Squizzi; Moro (Malago` 76), Mandelli, Cesar (Rickler 88); Mantovani, Bentivoglio, Italiano, Marcolini; Iunco, Pellissier, Rosi (Luciano 64)
Grosseto: Bressan; Terra (Gessa 76), Mignani, Abruzzese, Innocenti; Valeri, Consonni (Pichlmann 79), Garofalo; Lazzari, Danilevicius, Graffiedi (Betanin 59)
Ref: Mazzoleni
Attendance: 5,025

Frosinone 0-0 Brescia
The Rondinelle start 2008 in the same sluggish fashion as they ended the last solar year. Their performance was not helped by an appalling pitch at the Stadio Matusa and constant rainfall throughout the match, but Frosinone had the best chances with Martini missing an open goal and Viviano saving a Lodi strike.
Frosinone: Sicignano; Ischia, Pagani, S Bocchetti, A Bocchetti; Lodi, Pecchia (Scarlato 77), Amerini, Cariello; Evacuo, Martini (Margiotta 56)
Brescia: Viviano; Zambelli, Mareco, Zoboli, Dallamano; Stankevicius, Lima, Tacchinardi; Possanzini (Feczesin 82), Bazzani, Mannini (Vass 73)
Ref: Pinzani
Attendance: 3,559

Lecce 0-0 Messina
This was a missed opportunity for Lecce, who slide out of the top three after seeing a late spot-kick saved. Messina managed to keep the Salentini relatively quiet throughout aside from Manitta saves on headers from Stendardo and Cottafava. When Stendardo was punished for a handling offence six minutes from time, Valdes saw his penalty parried by Manitta.
Missed penalty: Valdes 84 (L)
Lecce: Benussi; Schiavi, Fabiano, Cottafava; Angelo, Munari, Zanchetta (Valdes 71), Ardito, Mihoubi (Esposito 87); Abbruscato (Tulli 80), Tiribocchi
Messina: Manitta; Galeoto, Stendardo, Giosa, Gaveglia; Surraco (Bombara 89), Pestrin, Cordova,