Genoa 4-0 Palermo: result and report
Serie A · Sunday 17 January 2016
Result
Genoa 4-0 Palermo
Serie A · Sunday 17 January 2016, 11:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Genoa 4-0 Palermo: match report
Genoa beat Palermo 4-0 in Serie A on Sunday 17 January 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Suso opened the scoring in the 3rd minute. Genoa's goals came from Suso (3'), Leonardo Pavoletti (71'), Tomás Rincón (75') and Leonardo Pavoletti (88'). Palermo did not score.
Discipline: Genoa received 2 yellow cards; Palermo received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Genoa were 17th on 19 points from 19 and Palermo 16th on 21 points from 19. Genoa went on to finish that season 10th with 46 points, and Palermo 17th with 39.
Genoa lined up in a 3-4-3 and Palermo in a 3-5-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Cristian Ansaldi of Genoa (9.8), ahead of Leonardo Pavoletti (8.6).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Genoa wins, 4 draws and 4 for Palermo.
Going into the match Genoa's last five read W-L-L-L-L and Palermo's W-L-L-W-L.
Key events
- 3'Goal · Suso
- 22'Yellow card · Siniša Anđelković
- 39'Yellow card · G. González
- 58'Yellow card · Luca Rigoni
- 65'Second yellow · Siniša Anđelković
- 71'Goal · Leonardo Pavoletti
- 73'Yellow card · Nicolás Burdisso
- 75'Goal · Tomás Rincón
- 88'Goal · Leonardo Pavoletti
- 90'Yellow card · Edoardo Goldaniga
Head-to-head
Team news
Genoa line-up (3-4-3)
Mattia Perin, Armando Izzo, Nicolás Burdisso, Ezequiel Muñoz, Cristian Ansaldi, Luca Rigoni, Tomás Rincón, Diego Laxalt, Diego Perotti, Suso, Leonardo Pavoletti
Palermo line-up (3-5-2)
Stefano Sorrentino, Siniša Anđelković, Edoardo Goldaniga, Giancarlo González, Achraf Lazaar, O. Hiljemark, Bryan Cristante, Mato Jajalo, Michel Morganella, Franco Vázquez, Uros Djurdjevic