Monza stopped the ‘Fiore’ on the way back

Monza recovered this Sunday from an initial 0-2 conceding and stopped the excellent 2023 of a Fiorentina (3-2) that has not lost since February 12 against Juventus and that is in the semifinals of the Conference League as one of the favorite rising champions.

2023 of ‘Fiore’ will frame and, in fact, until the 25th minute of the game against Monza it continued. The ‘Violas’ were up 0-2 on the scoreboard in 13 minutes.

First the Ivorian Cristian Kouame with a header from a corner kick and then the Italian Riccardo Saponara, who put the final touch to a great collective play with meaning from the small area, put a game on track that it seems impossible to escape from between the hands. to Italian men Vincenzo Italiano.

But this Monza is not recently promoted to use. The team owned by Silvio Berlusconi is in the middle of the table and always competes with the greats, a condition that is emphasized by playing at home, as it happened in this case. An own goal by Italian Cristiano Biraghi, who put the ball in his goal after an unfortunate clearance from his goal that hit him in the body, ignited the match.

Monza began to believe in the tie and with an isolated play, a long ball that the ‘Fiore’ defense failed to clear, the tie arrived. Italian Danny Motta capitalized on Argentine Lucas Martínez-Quarta’s mistake when he cleared the Monza goalkeeper’s shot and got ahead of Terracciano to score enough to put the tie on the scoreboard.

Reduced by both, ‘Fiore’ were at the mercy of the home side, who managed to make it 3-2 before the break, but were saved as VAR overruled it due to Italian Matteo Pessina’s hand in action when he himself scored.

The disallowed goal did not prevent a Monza from emerging for victory from the start of a second action where the ‘Fiore’ seemed to continue to be affected by the loss of the first advantage. And in one of the local attacks came the mistake of the visitors.

Moroccan Sofyan Amrabat arrived late on the spot and took a clear penalty which Pessina converted in the 56th minute, sealing the comeback. The result could have been more, but Caldirola hit the post in the final minutes and was unable to make it 4-2.

Monza’s victory puts them in twelfth with 41 points, just one point behind ‘Fiore’, tenth with 42. Those from Monza have just one day left to prove mathematical safety which Udinese achieved today with 42 points.