Cesena beat Sampdoria in a five goal thriller: Serie A match update
Cesena beat Sampdoria 3-2 in a five goal nail-biter at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris on Sunday evening. Emanuele Giaccherini scored a brace as the visitors move out of the drop zone with this win.
Sampdoria made four changes to their team that lost 2-0 to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luciano-Zauri-c22594. Massimo Ficcadenti shuffled his side after a 1-0 win against Chiveo last weekend. Dominique
Malonga started upfront in a 4-3-3 formation for the hosts.
The two teams made a cautious start to the game as the hosts enjoyed early possession. The hosts came close to scoring in the 12th minute as Biabiany latched onto a long ball and nipped around Antonioli but the Cesena keeper recovered in time
to smother the danger.
The game dried up in the middle periods and Cesena had to wait until the half hour mark to find their first goal scoring opportunity. Giaccherini made a strong run down the left flank and delivered a cross to Malonga, who fired just wide of the right side
of the goal.
The visitors dominated the game and created several opportunities to take the lead and finally broke the deadlock in the 43rd minute. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marco-Parolo-c23723 knocked down a long ball and let fly a shot from 25 yards, which found the top corner of the net
to make it 1-0 for the visitors.
Cesena doubled their lead just after the resumption of the second half. Giaccherini back peddled to meet a deep cross before unleashing a superb volley into the top corner to make it 2-0 for the visitors.
Couple of minutes later, Cesena scored another to triple their lead. Giaccherini stole the ball in the midfield from http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Gianluca-Curci-c14820 to make it 3-0 for the visitors.
After three goals in space of five minutes of play, it looked like one way traffic at the Stadio Luigi Ferraris. Sampdoria looked to bounce back and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Reto-Ziegler-c30895 cross was headed just wide of the goal by Gastaldello. The hosts managed to pull one goal back
in the 83rd minute, a howler from Cesena keeper allowed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Massimo-Volta-c24597 to poke home from close range to make it 1-3. Sampdoria were awarded a penalty in the 90th minute, when Volta was pulled down by a Cesena defender inside the box. Massimo
Maccarone stepped up and sent the keeper the wrong way to make it 2-3. Sampdoria were looking to make a remarkable comeback but Cesena held their nerves to win 3-2 and move to the 17th spot.
Cesena will play Juventus in their next encounter on 12th March, while Sampdoria will travel to Catania on 13th March.
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