Italian Serie B

FT Saturday, February 25, 2017
Spezia LWWWD 1
–
Novara LDDDW 2
1st2ndT
SPE101
NOV202
Silvio Piola · 3,987 att.

Head to Head

Series tied 2-2-1

Lineups

NOV · 3-4-1-2

  1. 1David da CostaG
  2. 3Andrea MantovaniCD
  3. 6Gennaro ScognamiglioCD-L
  4. 17Edoardo LanciniCD-R
  5. 5Federico CasariniCM-L
  6. 7Antonio CinelliCM-R
  7. 29Andrea OrlandiAM
  8. 8Marco ChiosaLM
  9. 24Lorenzo DickmannRM
  10. 16Andrej GalabinovCF-L
  11. 10Federico MachedaCF-R

Substitutes

  1. 15Andrea MalbertiSUB
  2. 31Francesco PaciniSUB
  3. 18Gianluca SansoneSUB
  4. 20Tomasz KupiszSUB
  5. 32Antonio LukanovicSUB
  6. 28Ransford SelasiSUB
  7. 12Lorenzo MontipòSUB
  8. 19Francesco BolzoniSUB
  9. 30Philipp KochSUB
  10. 9Francesco Di MarianoSUB
  11. 23Krisztián AdorjánSUB

SPE · 4-3-3

  1. 1Leandro ChichizolaG
  2. 19Claudio TerziCD-L
  3. 3Nahuel ValentiniCD-R
  4. 6Pietro CeccaroniLB
  5. 5Filippo De ColRB
  6. 14Damjan DjokovicCM
  7. 7Daniele SciaudoneLM
  8. 15Jon ErrastiRM
  9. 29Pablo GranocheF
  10. 23Alessandro PiuLF
  11. 26Giuseppe MastinuRF

Substitutes

  1. 8Franco SignorelliSUB
  2. 20Niko DatkovicSUB
  3. 10Antonio PiccoloSUB
  4. 18David OkerekeSUB
  5. 30Nico PulzettiSUB
  6. 24Luca VignaliSUB
  7. 33Alex ValentiniSUB
  8. 25Giulio MaggioreSUB
  9. 11Jaime BáezSUB

Timeline

  1. 17' Alessandro Piu (Spezia) is shown the yellow card.
  2. 29' Goal! Novara 1, Spezia 0. Federico Macheda (Novara) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Andrej Galabinov.
  3. 33' Goal! Novara 1, Spezia 1. Pablo Granoche (Spezia) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Damjan Djokovic with a through ball.
  4. 45'+1' Goal! Novara 2, Spezia 1. Andrej Galabinov (Novara) header from the centre of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by Marco Chiosa with a cross.
  5. 45' Substitution, Spezia. Franco Signorelli replaces Jon Errasti.
  6. 64' Substitution, Spezia. Antonio Piccolo replaces Alessandro Piu.
  7. 64' Substitution, Spezia. Giulio Maggiore replaces Daniele Sciaudone.
  8. 67' Substitution, Novara. Ransford Selasi replaces Antonio Cinelli.
  9. 68' Andrea Mantovani (Novara) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
  10. 71' David Da Costa (Novara) is shown the yellow card.
  11. 79' Substitution, Novara. Krisztian Adorjan replaces Federico Macheda.
  12. 90'+2' Substitution, Novara. Tomasz Kupisz replaces Andrea Orlandi.

Italian Serie B News

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