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Fiorentina in Conference League quarterfinals: Panathinaikos upended at Franchi
Conference League: Fiorentina-Panathinaikos 3-1
Fiorentina’s adventure in the Conference League continues. The Viola, after losing 3-2 in the first leg, managed to overturn the result, at home, in the return match by imposing 3-1 on Panathinaikos, thus centering the quarterfinals.
Twelve minutes pass and Fiorentina finds the goal that puts the qualification discourse back on an even keel: On the development of a corner, the ball ends up to Mandragora, who from the distance lets off a left-footed shot that doesn’t give Dragowski’ex violet.
On 24’, the hosts found the goal to double and overtake in the double-header: Ranieri blew the ball to Viagiannidis and served Gudmundsson, who got rid of Arao and slotted into the net, sealing his second consecutive goal. At the end of the first half, the Viola came close to scoring the third goal with Kean, who on an excellent assist from the former Genoa man concludes toward the goal, finding a providential response from Dragowski who keeps his side in the game.
In the resumption, è Panathinaikos to go close four times to the goal, but in the end è Fiorentina to drop the tris at 76’: Gosens sends in depth; Kean, who frees himself of Ingason and beats the green-and-white’s extreme defender in exit.
The Greek team throws itself into the attack in search of the goal that would rekindle their hopes of qualification and at 80’their forcing is repaid: Fagioli dabs Ounahi in the box and the match director awards the penalty to Panathinaikos. From the penalty spot Ioannidis does not miss.
The goal gave even more momentum to Rui Vitoria’s boys, who threw themselves forward in search of the goal that would take the match into extra time. In the midst of recovery, however, the guests remained in ten, as Mladenovic, already cautioned, was forced to commit a tactical foul to prevent the Viola’s restart, thus receiving his second yellow. Strengthened by the’extra man’Fiorentina is able to manage the ball with more tranquility; in the opponent’s half of the field until the final whistle.
In the next round, Palladino’s men will face the Slovenians of Celje, who folded Lugano on penalty kicks after a pyrotechnic 4-3 obtained in the 120′.
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Matteo Gigante, world number 164, didn’t make it against the emerging Czech Jakub Mensik, number 21, who in the second round of the men’s singles at the Internazionali d’Italia beat him with a score of 7-6 7-5 in just over an ira and 40 minutes of play.
Two evenly matched sets in which there was only one break, the one on 5-5 in the second set in favor of Mensik, and only two other break points, saved by Gigante, who on 3-3 also in the second set had found himself down 15-40.
The situation was repeated four games later and this time Gigante had to surrender at the second opportunity for Mensik, who won the first set tie-break 7-4 by stringing five consecutive points from 4-2 in favor of the 23-year-old Roman.
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At the Castellani Stadium the Saturday night match of the thirty-sixth day of Serie A between Empoli and Parma will be played at 8:45 pm.
Between the Tuscans Henderson and Grassi return from disqualification, however, Colombo will not be there for the same reason. Maleh, Kouamé, Sazonov, Zurkowski, Haas and Pellegri are unavailable. Cacace favored in the runoff with Solbakken.
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Among the Ducals, to be evaluated Mihaila, Vogliacco and Bernabé recovered instead Almqvist. Unavailable Charpentier, Kowalski, Osorio, Estevez and Cancellieri.
The probable lineups
EMPOLI (3-4-2-1): Vasquez; Goglichidze, Ismajli, Viti; Gyasi, Grassi, Henderson, Pezzella; Fazzini; Cacace, Esposito. All. D’Aversa.
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PARMA (3-5-2): Suzuki; Delprato, Leoni, Valenti; Hainaut, Hernani, Keita, Sohm, Valeri; Pellegrino, Bonny. All. Chivu.
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Giro d'Italia 2025: Tirana time trial to Joshua Tarling, Primoz Roglic is already pink jersey
The very young British rider Joshua Tarling, bearer of the Ineos Grenadiers and a specialist in races against the clock, won the Tirana time trial, the second stage of the Giro d’Italia 2025.
The 21-year-old Welshman covered the 13.7 kilometers of the course in 16’07”, finishing one second ahead of Slovenian Primoz Roglic, winner of the pink race in 2023, and three ahead of Australian Jay Vine of UAE Team Emirates.
Roglic, of Red Bul-Bora-Hansgrohe, snatched the pink jersey from Dane Mads Pedersen, of Lidl-Trek, who finished seventh, by just one second. Third at 5 seconds was Czech Mathias Vacek, Pedersen’s teammate.
The first Italian in the overall standings is Antonio Tiberi (Bahrain Victorious), eighth at 25 seconds, while in the time trial Edoardo Affini, also a time trial specialist like Tarling, finished fourth at 6 seconds behind the Briton.
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Internazionali d'Italia, Matteo Gigante surrenders to Jakub Mensik
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