Serie A | Sassuolo 2-2 Salernitana – Thorstvedt double denies Inzaghi first league win

Sassuolo fought again to earn a degree towards Salernitana, due to a double from Kristian Thorstvedt, which cancelled out two strikes inside the opening 20 minutes from Chukwubuikem Ikwuemesi and Boulaye Dia. 

It took simply shy of 5 minutes for the guests to search out the lead 

A well-timed, defence-splitting by means of ball launched Ikwuemesi, sending him one-on-one with nearly a 3rd of the pitch left to use the ending touches. Conserving his cool, Ikwuemesi was in a position to slot calmly previous Andrea Consigli within the Sassuolo internet. 

Samu Castillejo stung the palms of Guillermo Ochoa 5 minutes later with a harmful volley from a decent angle inside the penalty space. The Mexican’s sturdy wrist stored him out.

Sassuolo, nonetheless, discovered themselves two targets down with simply 17 minutes on the clock. 

Loum Tchaouma mazed his means by means of a congested remaining third, earlier than releasing Dia, once more catching the Sassuolo line of defense off guard. Salernitana’s high scorer took a contact to hold the ball into the world, earlier than firing into the roof of the online from the right-hand aspect of the field. 

Domenico Berardi tried to get his aspect again into it with a cleanly-hit strike from the sting of the field 28 minutes in, however his effort sailed to the fitting of Ochoa’s publish. 

Although Salernitana had seemed the sharper aspect within the opening exchanges, Sassuolo started to develop into proceedings after half an hour. 

Eight minutes later, the deficit had been halved, courtesy of Kristian Thorstvedt. A deep cross in the direction of the far publish discovered the top of Berardi, who was in a position to steer the ball again throughout the face of aim for Thorstvedt to faucet dwelling from point-blank vary. 

Andrea Pinamonti then struck the publish with a tremendous, bending effort from outdoors the world a couple of moments after the re-start. 

Daniel Boloca additionally fired a venomous drive simply large of Salernitana’s aim with two minutes of standard time left within the first interval. 

The hosts thought they’d earned a penalty simply earlier than the break, however these shouts had been promptly waved away. 

It took simply wanting 5 minutes into the second half for Sassuolo to attract themselves stage, once more by means of Thorstvedt. He timed his run completely to latch on to what had initially seemed like a mis-placed cross, earlier than slamming dwelling together with his first contact close to the penalty spot. 

Approaching the hour-mark, issues started to even out and the sport lastly turned a relatively-evenly-contested affair. 

Salernitana then had their flip to contest for a penalty after the ball appeared to make contact with a Sassuolo arm within the space. Nothing got here of it, nonetheless. 

Ochoa was known as into motion once more on the 81st minute, pulling off a tremendous double save to disclaim a pair of Sassuolo efforts from shut vary. Armand Lauriente then struck the publish once more for Sassuolo three minutes later. 

Once more, the woodwork was rattled, this time by way of a deflected Samuele Mulattieri effort from the center of the field with 5 minutes of standard time left to go. Ochoa reacted brilliantly to disclaim Berardi from the follow-up. 

There was actually frustration from the Salernitana gamers on the remaining whistle, because the referee had blown simply because the guests had been getting ready to launch one remaining ball into the world from a free-kick. 

Sassuolo quickly raise themselves as much as 14th place within the division, though that might change by the tip of Friday night. Salernitana, in the meantime, nonetheless discover themselves routed to the underside of the desk. 

Sassuolo 2-2 Salernitana

Ikwuemesi 5′ (Sal), Dia 17′ (Sal), Thorstvedt 36′, 52′ (Sas).