Pescara 2-1 Catania: result and report
Serie A · Friday 21 December 2012
Result
Pescara 2-1 Catania
Serie A · Friday 21 December 2012, 17:00 UTC · half-time 1-1
Pescara 2-1 Catania: match report
Pescara won against Catania 2-1 in Serie A on Friday 21 December 2012. It was 1-1 at half-time.
Mervan Çelik opened the scoring in the 23rd minute. Pescara's goals came from Mervan Çelik (23') and Togni (90+5'). Catania scored through Pablo Barrientos (35').
Discipline: Pescara received 1 yellow card; Catania received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Pescara were 19th on 14 points from 17 and Catania 8th on 25 points from 17. Pescara went on to finish that season 20th with 22 points, and Catania 9th with 55.
Pescara lined up in a 4-3-1-2 and Catania in a 4-3-3.
Going into the match Pescara's last five read L-W-L-L-L and Catania's W-W-L-L-W.
Key events
- 23'Goal · Mervan Çelik
- 24'Yellow card · Pablo Barrientos
- 35'Goal · Pablo Barrientos
- 44'Yellow card · Mariano Julio Izco
- 61'Yellow card · Mervan Çelik
- 90+5'Goal · Togni
Team news
Pescara line-up (4-3-1-2)
Mattia Perin, Marco Capuano, Antonio Balzano, Christian Terlizzi, Birkir Bjarnason, Matti Lund Nielsen, Togni, Elvis Abbruscato, Mervan Çelik, Vladimír Weiss, Francesco Modesto
Catania line-up (4-3-3)
Mariano Andújar, Nicolás Spolli, Nicola Legrottaglie, Giovanni Marchese, Pablo Alvarez, Sergio Almirón, Francesco Lodi, Mariano Julio Izco, Lucas Castro, Pablo Barrientos, Papu Gómez