Series A

Serie A | Verona 1-3 Monza: Colombo sails away

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2 years ago

3:23 pm

Lorenzo Colombo bagged a brace on the Bentegodi together with a Luca Caldirola header, as Monza flattened Verona 3-1 to soar into the European spots.

Hellas had began the season with back-to-back wins, however it has since been all downhill with simply two factors from eight rounds and a midweek Coppa Italia exit to Bologna. The guests misplaced Armando Izzo and Gianluca Caprari to damage, with Papu Gomez sitting out a doping ban.

It was a powerful begin from Monza, as Lorenzo Colombo pressured a tough save and on the ensuing nook Pablo Mari clipped the skin of the far submit.

Pawel Dawidowicz pulled up with a thigh pressure and whereas Verona had been all the way down to 10 males ready to make the substitution, Roberto Gagliardini turned a free header simply large.

Hellas rattled the body of the objective too, because the Ondrej Duda right-foot roller from the sting of the realm thumped the crossbar.

Andrea Colpani dribbled previous a defender and goalkeeper, however was solely in a position to hit the side-netting from the slender angle.

Monza took the lead with an ideal counter-attack, as Gagliardini received it again in midfield, Colombo despatched Colpani working and was prepared for the return cross, squeezing it previous the on-rushing goalkeeper.

Federico Bonazzoli wasted an enormous alternative to equalise straight after the restart, volleying over from seven yards when Darko Lazovic nodded a cross again in from the far submit.

Milan Djuric’s glancing header flashed simply large and the Lazovic daisy-cutter was smothered, however they didn’t make 25 minutes of pinning Monza again into their very own half depend.

Samuele Birindelli’s angled drive examined Lorenzo Montipò and Colombo accomplished his brace to double Monza’s lead with a ferocious left-foot screamer into the highest nook from the sting of the field.

Luca Caldirola completed off the rout with a header into the bottom from a Kyriakopoulos nook, the primary time Monza have scored this season from a set play state of affairs.

It nonetheless wasn’t over, as Verona lastly obtained on the scoresheet with Michael Folorunsho’s volley taking an enormous deflection off Pablo Mari to wrong-foot Di Gregorio from Cyril Ngonge’s pull-back.

Verona 1-3 Monza

Colombo 41, 73 (M), Caldirola 84 (M), Folorunsho 86 (V)

05-11-2023 11:30

MatchDay 11

Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi

Verona

Monza

1 – 3

Participant statistic

1st half

		25′		Danilo D’Ambrosio
		41′		Lorenzo Colombo (Help: Andrea Colpani)
		45′		Lorenzo Colombo

2nd half

Davide Faraoni	70′
	73′	Lorenzo Colombo (Help: Valentín Carboni)
	84′	Luca Caldirola (Help: Georgios Kyriakopoulos)
Michael Folorunsho (Help: Cyril Ngonge)	86′