BRESCIA. Brescia managed to reverse the score against Palermo. Brescia capitalized on its superior ball possession (60%).

The match was played at the Stadio Mario Rigamonti stadium in Brescia on Saturday and it started at 2:00 pm local time. The referee was Daniele Rutella with the assistance of Marco Ceccon and Marco Ricci. The 4th official was Simone Gauzolino. The weather was light rain. The temperature was cold at 9.76 degrees Celsius or 49.57 Fahrenheit. The humidity was 72%.​

Match Statistics​

Ball possession

Brescia was in firm control of the ball 60% while Palermo was struggling with a 40% ball possession.

Attitude and shots

Brescia was putting more pressure with 43 dangerous attacks and 16 shots of which 8 were on target. This is one of the reasons why Brescia won the match​.

Brescia shot 16 times, 8 on target, 5 off target. Regarding the opposition, Palermo shot 15 times, 7 on target, 6 off target.

Cards

Brescia received 3 yellow cards (Fabrizio Paghera, Lorenzo Dickmann and Michele Besaggio). Regarding the opposition, Palermo received 4 yellow cards (Ivan Marconi, Pietro Ceccaroni, Ionuț Nedelcearu and Eugenio Corini).

Also, Palermo didn’t end the match with 11 players after Ivan Marconi (Palermo) was sent off after receiving a straight red card (23′).

Standings

After playing this encounter, Brescia has 38 points to hold in the 7th place. On the other side, Palermo will stays with 46 points to remain in the 5th place.

Next matches

In the next match in the Palermo will play away against Lecco on the 9th of March with a 1-0 head to head record in favor of Lecco (0 draws).

Brescia – Formation

Brescia started with a 4-3-1-2 line-up (4-3-1-2).

The manager Rolando Maran decided to play with the following team: Michele Avella (7.3), Lorenzo Dickmann (7.0), Andrea Papetti (7.0), Davide Adorni (7.1), Alexander Jallow (7.7), Dimitri Bisoli (7.1), Fabrizio Paghera (7.9), Michele Besaggio (6.6), Nicolas Galazzi (7.3), Flavio Bianchi (7.1) and Gennaro Borrelli (8.9).

The home team had on the bench: Matthieu Huard (6.4), Mohamed Fares, Birkir Bjarnason (6.4), Gabriele Moncini (6.8), Simone Cortese, Massimiliano Mangraviti, Andrea Cistana, Raffaele Ciro Cartano, Massimo Bertagnoli (7.0), Giacomo Olzer (7.0) and Matteo Ferro.

Substitutions

Brescia made 5 changes: Fabrizio Paghera for Massimo Bertagnoli (75′), Flavio Bianchi for Birkir Bjarnason (75′), Gennaro Borrelli for Gabriele Moncini (64′), Nicolas Galazzi for Giacomo Olzer (64′) and Michele Besaggio for Matthieu Huard (81′).

Player of the match: Gennaro Borrelli​

As per our analysis, the most impressive player for Brescia was Gennaro Borrelli.

His rating is 8.9 with 2 goals, 10 passes (70% accurate) and 0 key passes. He won 5 duels out of 9.

Palermo – Formation

Palermo started with a 4-2-3-1 line-up (4-2-3-1).

Eugenio Corini played with: Mirko Pigliacelli (6.3), Simon Graves Jensen (7.3), Ionuț Nedelcearu (6.4), Ivan Marconi (3.3), Kristoffer Lund (6.4), Claudio Gomes (6.4), Mamadou Coulibaly (6.3), Francesco Di Mariano (7.5), Liam Henderson (6.4), Federico Di Francesco (7.3) and Matteo Brunori (7.0).

The following players were sitting on the bench: Leo Štulac, Leonardo Mancuso (6.3), Jacopo Segre, Roberto Insigne, Adnan Kanurić, Filippo Ranocchia (7.0), Aljosa Vasic (6.8), Salim Diakité, Edoardo Soleri, Giuseppe Aurelio, Pietro Ceccaroni (7.0) and Chaka Traorè (6.6).

Substitutions

Palermo made 5 changes: Liam Henderson for Pietro Ceccaroni (26′), Federico Di Francesco for Chaka Traorè (64′), Matteo Brunori for Leonardo Mancuso (46′), Mamadou Coulibaly for Filippo Ranocchia (46′) and Francesco Di Mariano for Aljosa Vasic (78′).

Player of the match: Francesco Di Mariano​

Following our analysis, the most impressive player for Palermo was Francesco Di Mariano.

His rating is 7.5 with 27 passes (85% accurate) and 2 key passes. He won 4 duels out of 7. He performed 3 crosses.

Results of the day

These are the results of the day in the Serie B.​

• Brescia – Palermo – 4-2
• Ternana – Parma – 1-3
• Südtirol – Lecco – 1-0