Virtus Entella 2-1 Novara: result and report

Serie B · Thursday 28 December 2017

Result

Virtus Entella 2-1 Novara

Serie B · Thursday 28 December 2017, 19:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

Virtus Entella · Novara · Serie B predictions

Virtus Entella 2-1 Novara: match report

Virtus Entella beat Novara 2-1 in Serie B on Thursday 28 December 2017. It was 0-1 at half-time.

Lorenzo Dickmann opened the scoring in the 12th minute. Virtus Entella's goals came from Giuseppe De Luca (58') and Andrea La Mantia (80'). Novara scored through Lorenzo Dickmann (12').

Discipline: Virtus Entella received 2 yellow cards; Novara received 3 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Virtus Entella were 20th on 21 points from 20 and Novara 14th on 24 points from 20. Virtus Entella went on to finish that season 19th with 46 points, and Novara 20th with 44.

Virtus Entella lined up in a 4-3-3 and Novara in a 3-4-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Virtus Entella wins, 0 draws and 2 for Novara.

Going into the match Virtus Entella's last five read L-L-D-W-D and Novara's D-L-D-D-W.

Data as of 5 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 12'Goal · Lorenzo DickmannNovara · 0-1
  • 24'Yellow card · Francesco Di MarianoNovara
  • 39'Yellow card · Giuseppe De LucaVirtus Entella
  • 39'Yellow card · Andrea OrlandiNovara
  • 58'Goal · Giuseppe De LucaVirtus Entella · 1-1
  • 68'Yellow card · Mirko EramoVirtus Entella
  • 80'Goal · Andrea La MantiaVirtus Entella · 2-1
  • 85'Second yellow · Alessio Da CruzNovara
  • 85'Yellow card · Alessio Da CruzNovara

Head-to-head

4 meetings: Virtus Entella 2, draws 0, Novara 2.

Team news

Virtus Entella line-up (4-3-3)

Andrea Paroni, Francesco Belli, S. Benedetti, Rodrigo Fernandes, Davide Brivio, Mirko Eramo, Manuel Di Paola, Marco Crimi, Giuseppe De Luca, Andrea La Mantia, Davide Diaw

Novara line-up (3-4-3)

Lorenzo Montipò, Magnus Troest, Dario Del Fabro, Lorenzo Dickmann, Marco Calderoni, Petar Golubovic, Andrea Orlandi, Marco Moscati, Moutir Chajia, Francesco Di Mariano, Riccardo Maniero