Coppa Italia: Sampdoria scrape through on penalties

The Coppa Italia proved tougher than anticipated for Andrea Pirlo’s Sampdoria, who wanted penalties to defeat Sudtirol, whereas Cremonese beat Crotone in additional time.

The opening spherical of the competitors has seen a couple of surprises already, reminiscent of Empoli going out to Cittadella and Monza’s elimination by the hands of Reggiana.

Pirlo made his official debut as coach of Sampdoria and it began properly sufficient with Mehdi Leris delivering a Valerio Verre cross to open the scoring after 17 minutes.

Daniele Casiraghi snatched the equaliser in first half stoppages for Sudtirol and it remained 1-1 all through additional time.

Even the penalty shoot-out dragged on to sudden loss of life, as a result of Fabio Depaoli fully missed the goal, adopted by Jeremie Broh thumping the upright.

Andrea Masiello finally made the decisive error and Nicola Murru transformed to ship Samp by, the place they’ll face Salernitana.

Cremonese have been pressured to additional time as properly after a 1-1 draw with Crotone.

It was the guests who had taken the lead by a Marco Tumminello strike, cancelled out by Felix Afena-Gyan’s header on a Leonardo Sernicola cross.

Cristian Buonaiuto thought he had received it for Cremonese in stoppages, just for VAR to disallow.

Cremonese did take management in additional time, ensuring with Franco Vazquez and Charles Pickel, so they’ll play towards Cittadella within the subsequent spherical.

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