Genoa earn Coppa Italia clash with Lazio after victory over Reggiana 

Genoa have progressed to the Coppa Italia Spherical of 16 after narrowly beating Serie B outfit Reggiana in additional time on Wednesday afternoon and can now face Maurizio Sarri’s Lazio within the subsequent stage of the competitors. 

It was one other assembly of two 2006 World Cup winners on the bench in Genoa this night, as Alberto Gilardino led his facet out to face Alessandro Nesta’s group of hopefuls. 

And, it was the lower-league guests who made the higher impression within the first half, ultimately snatching the lead within the thirty seventh minute by Muhamed Varela Djamanca. 

Although Gilardino had fielded a comparatively rotated Genoa facet, a number of first-team reinforcements have been known as upon at numerous levels of the second half, together with Abert Gudmundsson, Ruslan Malinovskyi and Morten Frendrup. 

Ridgeciano Haps discovered the equaliser for Genoa seven minutes on from the restart of play after the interval, though his group must go the complete two hours earlier than the victory was secured. 

Gudmundsson, Genoa’s high goalscorer to date in 2023-24, ultimately got here up with the profitable strike after 99 minutes. 

Genoa will now face Lazio within the Spherical of 16, which is at present scheduled to happen on December 5 at 20.00 UK time, topic to alter.