ChievoVerona 2-1 Sassuolo: result and report
Serie A · Wednesday 21 September 2016
Result
ChievoVerona 2-1 Sassuolo
Serie A · Wednesday 21 September 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 2-1
ChievoVerona 2-1 Sassuolo: match report
ChievoVerona beat Sassuolo 2-1 in Serie A on Wednesday 21 September 2016. The half-time score was 2-1.
Nicola Rigoni opened the scoring in the 21st minute. ChievoVerona's goals came from Nicola Rigoni (21') and Lucas Castro (40'). Sassuolo scored through Grégoire Defrel (28').
Discipline: ChievoVerona received 2 yellow cards; Sassuolo received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game ChievoVerona were 7th on 7 points from 4 and Sassuolo 3rd on 9 points from 4. ChievoVerona went on to finish that season 14th with 43 points, and Sassuolo 10th with 49.
ChievoVerona lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Sassuolo in a 4-3-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Luca Antei of Sassuolo (7.8), ahead of Nicola Rigoni (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 ChievoVerona win, 3 draws and 2 for Sassuolo.
Going into the match ChievoVerona's last five read W-D-L-W and Sassuolo's W-L-W-W.
Key events
- 21'Goal · Nicola Rigoni
- 28'Goal · Grégoire Defrel
- 40'Goal · Lucas Castro
- 54'Yellow card · Davide Biondini
- 60'Yellow card · Stefan Leitl
- 90+4'Yellow card · Stefano Sorrentino
Head-to-head
Team news
ChievoVerona line-up (4-3-1-2)
Stefano Sorrentino, Fabrizio Cacciatore, Nicolás Spolli, Alessandro Gamberini, Massimo Gobbi, Lucas Castro, Nicola Rigoni, Përparim Hetemaj, Valter Birsa, Sergio Pellissier, Riccardo Meggiorini
Sassuolo line-up (4-3-3)
Andrea Consigli, Timo Letschert, Paolo Cannavaro, Francesco Acerbi, Federico Peluso, Davide Biondini, Francesco Magnanelli, Alfred Duncan, Grégoire Defrel, Alessandro Matri, Federico Ricci