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 · Sassuolo · Serie A predictions

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.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Nicola RigoniChievoVerona · 1-0
  • 28'Goal · Grégoire DefrelSassuolo · 1-1
  • 40'Goal · Lucas CastroChievoVerona · 2-1
  • 54'Yellow card · Davide BiondiniSassuolo
  • 60'Yellow card · Stefan LeitlChievoVerona
  • 90+4'Yellow card · Stefano SorrentinoChievoVerona

Head-to-head

6 meetings: ChievoVerona 1, draws 3, Sassuolo 2.

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