Series A
Serie B: Nine-man Bari hold out against Palermo
The opening Serie B recreation of the season ended 0-0 between Bari and Palermo, however was actually not brief on drama with two crimson playing cards, a missed penalty and last-gasp winner disallowed by VAR.
This was a really early promotion showdown between two of the perimeters anticipated to push for the step as much as Serie A subsequent summer season.
It’d’ve ended goalless, but it surely was completely full of incident and controversy.
Palermo hit the publish within the opening 120 seconds with Aljosa Vasic, then Bari went all the way down to 9 males as Mattia Maita was proven a straight crimson after VAR evaluation for his ankle-breaking deal with on Vasic, adopted by a second yellow for Valerio Di Cesare.
That reserving got here for wrestling Matteo Brunori to the bottom and giving freely a penalty, which Francesco Di Mariano then blasted over the bar for Palermo on the 68th minute.
On the 10th minute of stoppages, Palermo thought that they had received it with Brunori tapping in an Alessio Buttaro roll throughout the six-yard field.
Nonetheless, after three minutes of VAR test, it was disallowed as a result of Brunori’s knee was offside, really a matter of millimetres.
The sport lastly ended after 112 minutes of soccer, two crimson playing cards, 11 yellow and a penalty.
Bari
Palermo
Participant statistic
| 24′ | Ivan Marconi |
| Mattia Maita |  |
50′ | ||
| Valerio Di Cesare | 50′ | |||
| Giuseppe Sibilli | 51′ | |||
| 64′ | Matteo Luigi Brunori | |||
| Raffaele Maiello | 67′ | |||
| Valerio Di Cesare |  |
67′ | ||
| 69′ |  |
Francesco Di Mariano | ||
| Ahmad Benali | 70′ | |||
| 73′ | Aljosa Vasic | |||
| 75′ | Roberto Insigne | |||
| Jérémy Ménez | 90+2′ | |||
| Brenno |  |
90+3′ |
Match statistic
Bari
Palermo
Beginning lineups
Substitutes
