In the end, in Martorano, the chance home bomber Perini after a left-footed effort to halve the double disadvantage decided to use his head to overturn it at the beginning of the second half and Atalanta Primavera sank by getting hooked at 27 above the playout zone. A game with two faces virtually ended, in terms of inertia, with the chance for the trio in the first half foiled by home goalkeeper Veliaj to would-be triplet player Alberto Manzoni, author of the double in aerial play of great illusions. Cesena wins, for Baby Dea only the mea culpa. And the first Atalanta goal by Edoardo Lonardo, a left-handed tanker rained in from Sambenedettese from the winter soccer market window, certainly cannot save the honor, falling (the home goalkeeper does not hold back), from the center of the area, on an invitation from Mungari from the left.
La grande illusione manzoniana
On the seventh, the play between fifth goals finds Camara not very ready to turn it in with a header, used however in compensation well by the midfielder “loaned” by the Under 23 who directs respectively on the first and second posts the crushes portegli on a saucer from the soft right of the bi-crosser Arrigoni from the right. Beyond the tenth, between goals, it is Ramaj who opposes Arpino in a slide in the axis with Castorri, while the other unheeded alert is on the quarter-hour mark with Tosku’s riser from the area.
Primo tempo: le chances di chiuderla e la riapertura
The tic-tac-toe, however, remains in the Zingonian Under-20s’ sights, first with Camara opening the plate in the scrum for Veliaj’s save in the 20th to repeat as well on Manzoni’s tug from Steffanoni. The dress rehearsal, for the Romagnoli, was the high break of future double-header Perini on the half-hour mark on Castorri’s dig and Domeniconi’s first shot in the mirror from deep, looked for by Tosku. The left-handed diagonal of the Italian point of the locals is opened by the vertical of the retriever Riccardo Campedelli to punish a botched disengagement in the middle of the Bosi’s boys, who from there go into the ball especially from inactive situations. See Dolce’s svettata with 3′ to go before the break for the comeback equalizer thanks also to the previous scorer’s bank on Ghinelli’s moving short corner, on the long wave of a true corner.
Secondo tempo: la Baby Dea subito sotto
If the first fraction is closed by the counterattack not finalized by the home left halfback, the resumption immediately says bad things. Even before Perini’s overtake, accompanied in his elevator movement by Ghinelli’s call, the same striker’s angel flight between shoulder and neck and Tosku’s 3′ percussion closed in on a foul. The Nerazzurri also risked immediate knocks from Ronchetti, right-footed wide facilitated by Armstrong’s slip (6′) , and the attacking pair frustrated by Gobbo’s backward slide in the 11′. Manzoni arrives late in front of the second post on Lonardo’s return cross from the short right side on the tail of the team’s second corner, and Primavera sees the coldest winter fall. On the hour mark the former Samb tries to combine with Damiano, who between the meshes of the white defense does not frame the goal. Ditto the Nerazzurri doubler on the threshold of the twentieth, served in the grazing from outside the left chain. Straw fires before ending up enveloped in flames.
Il Cesena dilaga
Bonanomi, on the verge of collapse, finds himself (24′) the wall in front backed by Lonardo in the wake of Damiano’s ball from the left, and knocking Atalanta out is Ramaj, who uses his hand he shouldn’t for Ghinelli’s roundabout free kick to the post that Zanchi doesn’t defend. The HCL Cavalluccio sinks the blows. First Castorri’s underhand touch insertion along Domeniconi’s counterattack to make it 4-2, then Lonardo in tow by Mungari defined the score. Three victories in a row including Empoli in the Italian Cup and now the calendar offers, Tuesday, Feb. 4, the home quarterfinal (2:30 p.m.) against Juventus.
Il tabellino del ko di Cesena: Manzoni illude
23rd (4th ret.) Primavera 1 – Martorano di Cesena, Centro Sportivo Romagna Centro, Friday, Jan. 31 (1 p.m.)
Cesena – Atalanta 5-3 (2-2)
CESENA (3-5-2): Veliaj 6; T. Zamagni 6, Dolce 7, R. Campedelli 7; Ronchetti 6 (36′ st Abbondanza sv), Arpino 6.5, Ghinelli 7.5 (41′ st D. Zamagni sv), Castorri 7 (36′ st Tampieri sv), Domeniconi 7; Perini 8.5 (41′ st Galvagno sv), Tosku 6.5 (25′ st Papa Wade 6). On hand: Fontana, Mattioli, Greco, Baietta, Lontani. All: Nicola Campedelli 7.5.
ATALANTA (3-4-1-2): Zanchi 5; Gobbo 5.5, Ramaj 5, Armstrong 5; Arrigoni 6.5 (34′ st Idele sv), Steffanoni 5.5, Manzoni 7, Ghezzi (cap.) 5.5 (23′ st Bonsignori Goggi 6); Bonanomi 6 (34′ st Mungari 6.5); Camara 6 (1′ st Lonardo 7), Capac 5.5 (1′ st Damiano 6.5). On hand: Bugli, Isoa, Mensah, Tavanti, Baldo, Bono. All: Giovanni Bosi 5.
Referee: Gandino of Alessandria 6.5 (Hader of Ravenna, Rignanese of Rimini).
RETIREES: 3′ and 18′ pt Manzoni (A), 38′ pt and 4′ st Perini (C), 44′ pt Dolce (C). 27′ st Ghinelli (C), 32′ st Castorri (C), 46′ st Lonardo (A).
Notes: rainy early afternoon, spectators 150. Tosku, Manzoni and Castorri booked for rough play. Total shots 20-19, in the mirror 7-7, saves 2-4, rejected/defeated 4-2. Corners 5-3, recovery 2′ and 3′.
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