The report cards. He scores the tenth goal then gives the assist: it's Laurientè's match

MOLDOVAN 6. The VAR gives him a big hand but he, to find that clean sheet that was missing for eight games, does his part. Especially in the final.

TOLJAN 6,5. He leaves too much space for Maistro who would have scored, if the VAR had not cancelled out his feat, already in the 8th minute. He also struggles when Rocchetti comes up on his lane, but he 'holds up': not an easy afternoon for the German full-back, ennobled however by his fifth assist of the season.

MUHAREMOVIC 6,5. The match gives him Adorante, not just anyone. He limits him: while waiting for Romagna, he is the most reliable centre back that the team can count on. Sassuolo.

LOVATO 6. First starting role in 2025 for the former Salernitana centre-back, effective in marking, less so in support (13' st ODENTHAL 6. Holds up to the Stabia challenge).

DOIG 6. Often looks for the bottom, just as often finding the Stabia closures. The Scotsman has 'legs', however, and makes them count throughout the match (43' st Pieragnolo sv A naivety and a run forward)

IANNONI 6. Fifth of the season in the starting eleven for the former Perugia wrecker, who wears the uncomfortable clothes of Thorstvedt's vice but has neither the pace nor the size of the Norwegian. He makes up for it by putting in the pace and attention (43' st Lipani sv Small change of game for him)

GHION 5,5. Back in the control room after the pit stop in La Spezia: now a midfielder, now a mezzala, geometric and linear in dictating the times and methods, but a little static, especially in the first few (18' st Obiang 6. Sunbio in the match: useful balancer)

BOLOCA 6,5. The first to press, the last to 'let go' if there's a closing down. His constant running from one end of the three-quarter line to the other takes away his lucidity, however. Indispensable anyway.

BERARDI 6. The best Berardi it's another thing: the one of these last times fights and struggles, but there aren't always sparks to light up the plays. When the first one arrives, here's the goal of the Sassuolo. After above all sacrifice.

SKJELLERUP 5. He chooses him, Grosso, and not Mulattieri, Russo or Moro, to add physique to a trident that is mainly technical in the other two interpers. A few passes and little else for the Dane, as far from the goal as he is from the live match and, by eye, also from an acceptable condition (18' st Mulattieri 7. The goal and not only, for the black-green centre forward)

LAURIENTÈ 7,5 (photo). He doesn't find any outlets on the left, where he rarely breaks through, also because he is often contained with bad moves, he looks for them and - he finds them - by moving to the centre. Together with his tenth goal of the season, not the only appreciable thing he does, in reality, see the assist to Muleteers. Decisive.

Stefano Fogliani