Pescara – Crotone : 7th May 2017

In free fall

Pescara holds the status of “red flashlight” in Italy’s first league, scoring only two wins in 34 stages. Thus, with only 14 points gathered throughout the entire season, Zdeněk Zeman’s band never had any real hope in terms of avoiding relegation. So, although the first victory of the “dolphins” in this championship was recorded char in the second round, on the Sassuolo field, it came to the green table, the hosts winning the lawn with the score of 2-1. From that moment on, Pescara became cursed in Serie A, winning 23 consecutive championship games without victory. On top of one another, private and some of the best of the first “11”, the host team will have a hard time in front of the revelation of this season’s final in Italy, Crotone.

Hopes intact

Crotone ranks 18th in the Serie A standings, with 25 points gathered in 34 stages. So, Davide Nicola’s band came back spectacularly in the race to avoid relegation to Italy after gaining 11 points in the last 15 possible. Thus, Inter, AC Milan or Sampdoria were just some of the victims of the “sharks” lately, which, however, maintain a four-point handicap away from the rival ranking, Empoli. Crotone will come together to collect all three points in the best possible trip this season, on the Adriatic coast.

Direct meetings

In the last ten direct confrontations between the two bands, Pescara forced himself six times, Crotone in three other rows, while a single duel ended in a tie;

In the tour, Crotone landed on the ground, score 2-1;

Crotone’s last success at the Adriatic Sea dates back to January 2009 from a 1-0 when the two groups were active in the third Italian league;

Probable teams:

Pescara (4-3-3): Fiorillo- Zampano, Fornasier, Bovo, Biraghi- Coulibaly, Bruno, Memushaj- Caprari, Cerri, Benali

Absentees: Crisetig, Falcinelli (suspend)