Venezia 1-2 Cesena: result and report
Serie B · Saturday 20 September 2025
Result
Venezia 1-2 Cesena
Serie B · Saturday 20 September 2025, 13:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
Venezia 1-2 Cesena: match report
Venezia were beaten by Cesena 1-2 in Serie B on Saturday 20 September 2025. It was 0-0 at half-time.
Riccardo Ciervo opened the scoring in the 54th minute. Venezia's goal came from Gianluca Busio (83', penalty). Cesena scored through Riccardo Ciervo (54') and Massimiliano Mangraviti (72').
Discipline: Venezia received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card; Cesena received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Venezia were 6th on 5 points from 3 and Cesena 4th on 7 points from 3. Venezia went on to finish that season 2nd with 82 points, and Cesena 10th with 46.
Venezia lined up in a 3-5-2 and Cesena in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Riccardo Ciervo of Cesena (7.6), ahead of John Yeboah (7.4).
Going into the match Venezia's last five read D-D-W and Cesena's W-D-W.
Key events
- 25'Yellow card · Michele Castagnetti
- 54'Goal · Riccardo Ciervo
- 63'Yellow card · Gianluca Busio
- 72'Goal · Massimiliano Mangraviti
- 83'Penalty goal · Gianluca Busio
- 90+1'Yellow card · Marin Šverko
- 90+3'Red card · Alfred Duncan
- 90+8'Yellow card · Dimitri Bisoli
- 90+9'Yellow card · Issa Doumbia
Team news
Venezia line-up (3-5-2)
Filip Stanković, Joël Schingtienne, Seid Korac, Bartol Franjic, Antoine Hainaut, Issa Doumbia, Alfred Duncan, Gianluca Busio, Bjarki Bjarkason, John Yeboah, Andrea Adorante
Cesena line-up (3-4-2-1)
Jonathan Klinsmann, Andrea Ciofi, Giovanni Zaro, Massimiliano Mangraviti, Riccardo Ciervo, Matteo Francesconi, Michele Castagnetti, Emanuele Adamo, Jalen Blesa, Tommaso Berti, Cristian Shpendi