Brescia take on the visitors Monza in the first leg of Serie B playoff semifinals. The match will be played on Wednesday, May 18th at Stadio Mario Rigamonti (Brescia).
Brescia are quite famous - there are no special victories and trophies, but it has spent many years in Serie A, showing relatively decent results. Stars such as Hadji, Baggio, Pirlo, Luca Toni, even, for a while, Pep Guardiola played for the team. Last reason the team managed to climb to the 7th position, bypassing Chievo and SPAL in additional indicators, and gaining the right to play in the playoffs. By and large, now the wards of Eugenio Corini are almost marking time. This time they finished 5th (scoring only 1 point less than Pisa and Monza, and 3 behind Cremonese, who got promotion directly from 2nd place), but still had to start from the quarterfinals of playoffs. It was not easy: Perugia opened the score, then went ahead in extra time, but in the end Brescia won 3-2. The hero was Flavio Bianchi, who had a goal and an assist in stoppage time.
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Monza were able to have a good rest before the current play-off round as they finished in 4th final position, which makes it possible to start only from the semi-final round. However, it is unlikely that the ambitious club is satisfied with this result. The new brainchild of Silvio Berlusconi is clearly set to rise to Serie A. But in the last draw there was a 3rd place and a subsequent defeat in the play-offs. Now the "white-reds" were clearly setting themselves up to take a direct promotion in Calcio from the 2nd attempt. But the start of 1 of the favorites was frankly failed: they played a draw with Brescia, then lost to Frosinone and Perugia away with an interval of 3-0 in their field with Benevento. Because of this, Giovanni Stroppa's wards were limited to only 67 points for the season - this is more than it was in 2020/2021. Now, instead of celebrating a ticket to Serie A, there will be a difficult struggle without the right to make a mistake.
So far, the sides are completely equal in head-to-head results. In 8 matches, there were 2 wins for each club, and 4 draws. This season, Monza won on the road and scored 1-1 at home. The bookmaker considers Brescia to be the favorite of the pair. But it is unlikely that such a duel will be spectacular - a bet on "a total of less than 2.5 goals scored" suggests itself.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
