Fiorentina in the semi-final of the Italian Cup. Bologna beaten 5-4 on penalties. At the Franchi stadium, extra time also ended 0-0.
The other three matches scheduled are Atalanta-Milan, Lazio-Roma and Juventus-Frosinone. Daniele Orsato he is the referee designated to referee the Lazio-Roma derby on Wednesday 10 January at 6pm. Line assistants will be Imperiale and Rossi, fourth official Manganiello, while in the Var room there will be Irrati and Abbattista. For the other match on Wednesday, Milan-Atalanta at 9pm has been designated Beautiful, with Ferrieri Caputi fourth official and Valeri-Di Martino Var and Avar. Finally Juventus-Frosinone on Thursday: he will referee Sackswith Tolfo and Palermo line assistants, Tremolada fourth official and La Penna and Aureliano (contested by both Roma and Atalanta for the direction of last night’s postponement) in the roles of Var and Avar.
Fiorentina – Bologna
In Florence, Fiorentina beat Bologna 5-4 on penalties, with Posch’s penalty error being decisive, and is the first semi-finalist of the Italian Tim Cup. Surprisingly, Italiano fields a team with a three-man defense made up of Ranieri, Milenkovic and Quarta, a line of five midfielders with Biraghi and Kayode on the wings and Duncan, Maxime Lopez and Barak in the center and Beltran alongside Ikone. On the other side, Motta responded with a 4-5-1, relying on Zirkzee at the center of the attack and relying on the plays of players such as Orsolini, Saelemaekers and Ferguson.
Fiorentina – Bologna
The Viola started off by trying to attack the rossoblù half of the pitch right from the start, but they responded with quick counterattacks. In the 17th minute Kayode tries with a counter-jumping shot from the top corner of the penalty area which Skorupski manages to lift for a corner. Ten minutes later Bologna’s response: the Viola defense moves badly and leaves only Zirkzee in the center of the area but the attacker does not connect to the ball served to him by Orsolini. At 32′ bad ball lost by Beltran in the open field, Orsolini takes the ball and flies towards the goal but kicks at Milenkovic and the opportunity disappears for the guests. Two minutes and Bologna still close to scoring with Zirkzee moving well in the center of the purple area where he gets rid of Milenkovic and shoots without fail but the ball rises and chips the crossbar. At the start of the second half the two coaches did not change their respective teams and the theme of the match did not change either because in the 5th minute Bologna came very close to scoring again but Orsolini’s diagonal shot from the right hit the post to the left of the Fiorentina goalkeeper.
Fiorentina – Bologna
Italian tries to change something, to give greater incisiveness and phosphorus and at the 15th minute he inserts Bonaventura and Nzola for Barak and Ikone. A Fiorentina with two strikers to create greater dangers but it is always Bologna who are dangerous: in the 21st minute Quarta makes a mistake when leaving their own area, the guests recover the ball and verticalize for Ferguson, who kicks at Christensen from a tight angle. Italiano decides to change again, 27’st, inserting Parisi and Mandragora for captain Biraghi and Duncan. Five minutes later he was then forced to replace the injured Beltran, hit on the nose, with Arthur. Fiorentina becomes dangerous again in the 39th minute with Nzola recovering the ball on the edge of the area and as the action continues the ball goes to Kayode who, from inside the area on the right, launches a diagonal shot that ends high above the crossbar. Three minutes from the ninetieth Motta makes his first changes: he recalls Aebischer and Lucumi to the bench and inserts Moro and Calafiori. In the 95th minute Fiorentina came very close to scoring with Quarta’s close-range header from a corner, but found Skorupski who relaxed and said no. We go to extra time. Quarta’s mistake in the 102nd minute was incredible when he was freed in front of the goal by Nzola and kicked badly and slowly and the ball ended up in the arms of the Bologna goalkeeper.
Fiorentina – Bologna
A minute later the scene repeated itself but this time it was Milenkovic not to take advantage of the opportunity. Fiorentina presses on the accelerator and in the 108th minute they come close to scoring again with Kayode who jumps alone inside the small area and hits a header from a few steps from the goal, but the shot is wrong and the ball ends up incredibly in a lateral foul to the disbelief of the purple audience. Bologna doesn’t give up and in the 111th minute Orsolini takes off on the counterattack but once in the area he finds Christensen coming out who saves his shot. But not even extra time was enough to decide the first Tim Cup semi-finalist who ultimately exited the penalty shootout: Fiorentina.
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