Fiorentina
Frosinone
Match summary
Frosinone won comfortably, 3-0 away at Fiorentina. Frosinone led 2-0 at half-time.
Antonio Raimondo put Frosinone ahead in the 26th minute, set up by Giorgi Kvernadze, Gabriele Bracaglia made it 0-2 with a header in the 38th minute, set up by Giacomo Calo, and Raimondo made it 0-3 in the 68th minute, set up by Gabriele Bracaglia.
There was little between the sides on chances: Fiorentina created 1.82 expected goals (xG) from 25 shots, Frosinone 1.95 from 12.
Fiorentina dominated large periods of the Serie A matchday two fixture against Frosinone, enjoying sixty percent possession and registering twenty-five shots to their opponents twelve. Despite controlling the territory with one hundred and fourteen attacks and earning eight corners compared to Frosinone's five, Fiorentina could not convert their pressure into goals. Frosinone defended resolutely, making twenty-eight tackles and blocking eight shots while matching their hosts with three yellow cards. The expected goals statistics reflected a much closer contest than the final scoreline, with Fiorentina recording an xG of 1.82 against Frosinone's 1.95, though the away side clinically took their chances to secure a comprehensive victory.
The disciplinary action began early when Frosinone player Antonio Raimondo received a yellow card in the eighth minute for a foul. Gabriele Bracaglia and Álex Jiménez were then booked in the twenty-fourth minute for Frosinone and Fiorentina respectively. The scoring opened in the twenty-sixth minute when Antonio Raimondo finished with a left foot shot to put Frosinone ahead, following an earlier notable chance by Seydou Fini. Gabriele Bracaglia doubled the lead in the thirty-eighth minute with a header, making it two-nil at half-time. In the second half, Antonio Raimondo scored his second goal in the sixty-eighth minute with another left foot shot to complete the three-nil scoreline.
