Moving On Up!

Venezia 3-1 Lucchese

A tremendous result yesterday sees us climb to outright second in the table, and coupled with Monza's heavy defeat (5-2 at home!) to Massesse and Sassuolo's draw with Pistoiese, it means we are now only 2 points from the top of the table.

By all accounts it was a great performance, which even some dodgy refereeing could not stop (a dodgy penalty for Lucchese; no penalty for us when a Lucchese defender handballed in the box). Moro hit the bar after only three minutes before Manolo Gennari got us off to the perfect start after 7 minutes, tapping home Marco Moro's cross. We continued to dominate the first half, but Lucchese did hit the post with a header on 21 minutes from Bellucci, before being awarded the aforementioned dodgy penalty five minutes before halftime.

If they were annoyed to go in level, the boys soon made amends after the break - Capitan Collauto with a rocket shot from 25 metres seven minutes in put us 2-1 up, and Gennari got his second a few minutes later. After that it was plain sailing.

Despite the great result, there is still one more important task before Christmas - a tricky away tie to Pisa, who won at the weekend to climb into 3rd. Given that they have managed to play 16 games and score only 10 goals, letting in 5, there is a failry good chance of a 0-0, but as long as we don't lose, we can be happy with our first half of the season's work...

Serie C1/A:

1. Sassuolo P 16 W 8 D 7 L 1 GF 23 GA 11 Pts 31

2. Venezia P 16 W 8 D 5 L 3 GF 22 GA 13 Pts 29

3. Pisa P 16 W 6 D 9 L 1 GF 10 GA 5 Pts 27

4. Monza P 16 W 7 D 5 L 4 GF 22 GA 17 Pts 26

5. Lucchese P 16 W 7 D 4 L 5 GF 22 GA 12 Pts 25