Playoff Semifinals, Serie B Results: The Final Will Be Cremonese - Spezia

The Grigiosossi overturn the challenge against Juve Stabia and reach the final, while the Bianconeri win again against Catanzaro

di MATTEO MEREU
26 May 2025
Spezia beats Catanzaro 2-1 and qualifies for the Serie A play-off final against Cremonese.

Spezia beats Catanzaro 2-1 and qualifies for the Serie A play-off final against Cremonese.

Rome, 25 May 2025 – The playoff final of the BKT Series 2024-25 will be between the Spezia , CremoneseThe black and whites also won the second act of the semi-final against Catanzaro thanks to Aurelio and wisniewski, after the initial disadvantage signed Cassander. The team of Strop, instead, overturns Wednesday's defeat against the Juve Stabia and with a clear 3-0 reaches the final. One of these two teams will therefore be the third to qualify in Serie A after Sassuolo and Pisa, who have already achieved this milestone during the regular season.

Cremo turns everything upside down

Wednesday's defeat could have been a symptom of tiredness and tension, but in the return match the Cremonese she wanted to chase away all the bad thoughts, with an excellent performance that allowed her to clearly conquer the final: now she will go and play everything against the battleship SpeziaThe Grigiorossi are a completely different team compared to the one seen on Wednesday at the Menti, and in the 30th minute they took the lead thanks to Castagnetti, who, on the perfect assist of Barbieri, does not miss and scores the 1-0 goal. In the 34th minute the Juve Stabia has the ball for 1-1, but the shot of Pierobon ends out: the first half ends with the advantage of the grigiorossi. At 59' comes the expulsion for Andreoni, which changes the match: from this moment on Juve Stabia loses its composure, and between the 61st and 67th minute two more goals arrive for Cremonese, the first one is scored by Johnsen and the second VandeputteThe final minutes were of absolute control: Stroppa and his team overturned the defeat of the first leg and secured the pass to the final.

No problem for Spezia

The 2-0 of the first leg had put the Spezia in a situation of great advantage. The return match does not see any shocks: the black and whites win and earn a place in the final. The first goal of the match comes in the 31st minute and is that of Cassander, which he bags after the rejection of Gori on the free kick taken by Pompetti, but in the 36th minute the match is balanced again thanks to the equalising goal by Aurelio. After having ended the first half of the game in a draw, Spezia found the net to take the lead with wisniewski, who on the free kick of Pio Esposito bat Pigliacelli with his head and scored the final 2-1 goal. In front of D'Angelo and his team will be Cremonese: the first leg will be played on Thursday at 20:30 pm at the Zini, the return leg on Sunday at the Picco.

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