Cremonese beat Spezia 3-2 to claim last Serie A ticket

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Cremonese became the final team to be promoted to Serie A after beating Spezia 3-2 in the second leg of their play-off on Sunday.

The first leg ended in a goalless draw, with Manuel De Luca scoring twice and Michele Collocolo once to put the visitors 3-0 up.

The game was almost over as Francesco Pio Esposito and Luca Vignali netted to make it 3-2 for Spezia, with tense moments leading the final minutes and a red card for each side. “This season will be remembered for a long time for what we have achieved,”

Cremonese coach Giovanni Stroppa told สมัคร ufabet กับเรา รับโบนัสทันที . We were promoted with pure determination and a heart that never gave up,”

In the past 19 seasons, only five times had the team playing the second leg of the final away won promotion to Serie A.

Worse still, in seven of the last eight times the first leg ended in a draw, the better-placed team reached calcio’s top tier.

Twelve months on from suffering heartbreak against Venezia at this stage, Cremonese faced the unappealing prospect of becoming the first team to lose the play-off final in consecutive seasons.

Sassuolo (Serie B champions) and Pisa under coach Filippo Inzaghi were previously promoted as the first and second place.

As for Cremonese, they last played in Serie A in the 2022-23 season.