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(ANSA) – FLORENCE, 02 OTT – Fiorentina beat Cagliari 3-0 at home and climbed to third place in Serie A, whose seventh round was completed with Monza’s 1-0 victory at Sassuolo’s field and with the 0-0 draw between Torino and Hellas Verona.
The Argentine Nicolás González opened the scoring in the 3rd minute for Fiorentina, who extended their advantage with a goal against Alberto Dossena (21′) and put definitive figures through the Angolan M’Bala Nzola in the fourth added minute of the complement.
The coach of the “violeta” team, Vincenzo Italiano, had the Brazilian Arthur and the Argentines Lucas Martínez Quarta, Nicolás González (substituted at 65′) and Lucas Beltrán (replaced at 75′).
Fiorentina now has 14 points like Napoli and Juventus, all behind the leaders Inter and Milan, who have 18 points, while Cagliari (2), which had the Uruguayan Nahitan Nández, remains last.
“Good first half. Then, in the second half, we fell like what happened in Frosinone, we started to lose distance,” Italiano acknowledged to the Dazn network after Fiorentina’s victory against Cagliari.
“I changed the front four to keep the pressure on Cagliari, but it’s difficult to maintain a certain rhythm when you play twice a week. However, we got the 3 points and finally our center forward scored a goal, so it was a positive day,” the coach celebrated about Nzola.
“Repeating what we did last year is not easy, if the new players start to grow we can do well in the championship and advance in the cups. But we cannot make promises now,” concluded Italiano, who guided Fiorentina to the finals. the Italian Cup (lost to Inter) and the Conference League (fell to West Ham).
Earlier, Monza, with a goal from Leonardo Colombo, beat Sassuolo 1-0 as a visitor, while Torino and Hellas Verona tied 0-0 for the seventh round of the tournament.
Colombo scored, in the 66th minute, the goal that sealed Monza’s victory, which ten minutes later included the Argentine Alejandro “Papu” Gómez, brought in days ago free of charge after being released from Sevilla.
Monza now has 9 points like Sassuolo, who had the Uruguayan Matías Viña (substituted at 61′) and the Brazilians Ruan Tressoldi (replaced at 69′) and Matheus Henrique.
Frosinone and Torino also have 9 units, which despite having the Colombian Duván Zapata, disappointed by drawing without goals at home to Hellas Verona, which has 8 units and fielded the Argentines Bruno Amione and Juan Manuel Cruz (replaced at 58′ ). (ANSA).

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2023-10-03 00:57:50
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