Victory in the penalty shootout to resolve the tie after ninety minutes (2-2) gave Empoli qualification for the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia on Wednesday and led to the elimination of Fiorentina at their stadium, the Artemio Franchi.
Before the start of the Tuscan derby Fiorentina fans showed up with a big tifo and banners to show off all his support to his player Edoardo Bove, who followed the game from the Careggi hospital in Florence after suffering a cardiorespiratory arrest on Sunday during the match against Inter.
The Fiore, included David de Gea on the bench and Pietro Terracciano in goaldid not maintain the advantage it had until the 75th minute, when Sebastian Esposito He scored the tying goal for the visitors and took the outcome at eleven meters.
La Fiore missed two penalties in the shootout
The penalty shootout errors by Luca Ranieri and Moise Kean They led the dismissal of Fiorentina. Empoli scored four out of five. Only Swede Emmanuel Ekong failed, who put Empoli ahead in the match by capitalizing, after four minutes, on a mistake by the Argentine defender Lucas Martínez Quarta.
But in the second half, everything changed from the beginning. Moise Kean equalized on the clock and Riccardo Sottil led Raffaele Palladino’s team. But with a quarter of an hour remaining, Sebastiano Esposito scored the equalizer that ultimately took Empoli into the quarterfinals.
Empoli have the measure of their Tuscan rivals as they have six derbies unbeaten against Fiorentina.
Source: La Verdad
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