Hellas Verona conquers Marassi. Paolo Zanetti’s team wins second in three league games beating Alberto Gilardino’s Genoa 2-0 at “Ferraris”. A balanced first half conditioned by the heat in Genoa on this early September evening. The clearest opportunity falls to the feet of Vasquez who, fed by Sabelli, finds himself one-on-one with Montipò but shoots poorly, grazing the crossbar. On the counterattack it is Harroui who burns Badelj and shoots first-time but Gollini blocks.
The second half opens with an opportunity for Messias who shoots diagonally but the ball goes just wide. The law of football is ruthless and a missed goal always corresponds to a goal conceded. Cross from the left by Lazovic with Gollini who gets the timing of the exit wrongthe ball falls to the feet of Tchatchoua, who is able to shoot first-time and put it into the unguarded goal.
The Scaligeri have taken over more space and are showing some good moves. A cross from Dawidowicz is deflected with the hand of Thorsby, for Ayroldi there are no doubts: it is a penalty. Tengstedt steps up to take the penalty and makes no mistake, doubling Hellas’ lead. Messias immediately came close to scoring again but his diagonal shot ended just wide.