🔥 Frosinone are in Serie A! All the verdicts from the final Serie B round 👀 | OneFootball

The final round of Serie B was a huge spectacle. Frosinone celebrated promotion, but there were plenty of incredible moments and twists.

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Below, we relive this brilliant evening of second-division football and discover all the final verdicts.

🚨 All the Serie B verdicts

With a 5-0 win over Mantova, Frosinone secured promotion to Serie A alongside league leaders Venezia. The playoff spots go, in order of finish, to Monza, Palermo, Catanzaro, Modena, Juve Stabia and Avellino.

Empoli stayed up at the last second thanks to a 2-2 draw with Monza, while Südtirol and Bari head to the playouts. Relegated to Serie C: Spezia, Pescara and Reggiana.

🤬 Reggiana fans FURIOUS, full-blown protest

Reggiana fans launched a protest by filling the pitch with smoke bombs and forcing the fire brigade to intervene. The banner read: "It’s what you deserve!"

💥 Pescara FURIOUS, Insigne booed!

With Bari’s result wiping out any hope for Pescara, protests began over the relegation.

Loud boos were aimed at Insigne and Caligara, chants against Sebastiani rang out, and firecrackers and smoke bombs were thrown onto the pitch. A dreadful ending to what had looked like it might become a fairy tale.

🤔 Bleve DISASTERS, Entella 2-1! Safety close

Virtus Entella scored twice either side of half-time to take a two-goal lead over Carrarese, both coming from Bleve disasters.

In the first, the goalkeeper lost the ball while coming out 30 meters from goal and Tirelli lofted it over him. In the second, he came out of his area to challenge Cuppone, who beat him and scored. The defenders were also slow to react in trying to clear the ball off the line.

The visitors got back into the game in the 50th minute with a brilliant volley from Zanon that left Del Frate helpless.

🤦🏻?♂️ ABSURD own goal by Modena, Avellino eye the playoffs

In the 43rd minute, Avellino took the lead thanks to a sensational own goal by young goalkeeper Bagheria, who parried Missori’s cross into his own net.

With that goal, Avellino would currently finish the season in eighth place and earn a playoff spot.

😰 Bari from fear to joy, from 0-1 to 3-2

Bari needed just one point to be certain of avoiding relegation, but after 12 minutes they had fallen behind against Catanzaro through Verrengia’s goal. 

In the 23rd minute, though, the equalizer arrived through the usual duo: Rao assist, Moncini goal.  In the 40th minute, Piscopo turned it around with a great volley. A huge sliding-doors moment, because from his mistake two minutes earlier Koffi had found himself with an open goal but completely miskicked, letting the Biancorossi off the hook.

At the start of the second half, the player did it again, another volley, this time with his right foot, from a great cross by Dorval. Longo’s team are headed for the playouts. Late on, the Giallorossi were awarded a penalty, converted by Koffi.

😱 INCREDIBLE match in Cesena: Padova 4-3

Serie B burst onto the stage in all its spectacular glory at Cesena’s Orogel Stadium. Our version of PSG-Bayern delivered endless entertainment.

In the space of seven minutes, the Romagna side went behind to a Di Maggio goal and then turned it around through Shpendi and Cerri, who also assisted each other. In the 13th minute, though, Di Maggio grabbed his brace to level things up again. Four minutes later, the Biancoscudati went back in front through Caprari’s set-piece. 

Then the impossible happened in stoppage time: Ciofi cleared Caprari’s dink off the line on the counter, and the move at the other end instead led to Cristian Shpendi scoring. A crazy 3-3 at half-time.

Late in the match, Seghetti made it 4-3 on the counter, condemning Cole’s men to miss out on the playoffs.

🧨 Frosinone RUN RIOT, 5-0 and Serie A one step away

In Frosinone too, the match quickly took an encouraging turn. VAR spotted contact in the box by Castellini on Monterisi and called the referee over for a review.

Calò stepped up from the spot, sent Bardi the wrong way and scored a goal that tasted like Serie A, the crowning moment of a magnificent season. Double figures reached by the playmaker, who has also recorded 14 assists.

A few minutes later, the team doubled their lead thanks to a Castellini own goal, continuing his horror day. In the second half, Fares Ghedjemis also got on the scoresheet with his 15th goal of the season.

In the 70th minute, there was glory too for Raimondo, who made it 11 for the season and scored the fourth. In the 77th minute, another of the season’s main protagonists, Koutsoupias, got the satisfaction of scoring the goal that completed the five-star rout.

🤯 NAIL-BITING match in Monza, Empoli 2-2

After just 10 seconds, Empoli took the lead in Monza through Stiven Shpendi, from a shot that was fortuitously deflected after a fine individual move by Elia.

In the 29th minute, however, Monza equalized through Andrea Petagna, who took advantage of a Cutrone assist and beat Fulignati with a placed left-footed finish. In the 65th minute, the Brianza side turned it around with a Delli Carri header, complicating Empoli’s plans. But the Azzurri avoided the playouts thanks to Shpendi’s brace, as another scrappy goal from close range wrote history.

The direct promotion and playoff picture

Venezia had already celebrated promotion to Serie A last week by drawing away at Spezia. Frosinone are three points ahead of Monza, so Massimiliano Alvini’s side only need a draw with Mantova to be certain of promotion.

Palermo, Catanzaro, Modena and Juve Stabia are certain of playoff places, while five teams are fighting for the final spot: Avellino, Cesena and Mantova on 46 points, and Carrarese and Sampdoria on 44.

The relegation and playout picture

With just one match remaining, no team has been relegated yet. But the fate of Reggiana, Spezia and Pescara hangs by a thread. One point for Bari against Catanzaro will be enough to send the three teams currently on 34 points down to Serie C.

The Biancorossi themselves have very little chance of avoiding the relegation playoff even with a win. Empoli, Südtirol and Entella are the other three teams at risk of the playouts. It should be remembered that if Bari were to lose and the other three were to win, there would be no post-season at all: a five-point gap would open up between 17th and 16th place, and under the rules the bottom four would be automatically relegated.

What happens if teams finish level on points

If two teams finish level on points, placement would be decided by head-to-head results and, if still level, by goal difference in those head-to-head matches. If there were still no separation, overall goal difference across the whole season would be used.

If instead three or more teams were level on points, the mini-table would come into effect, calculated by adding up the points won in league meetings between the clubs. Below are the possible combinations for playoff places, automatic safety and the playout and relegation zone.

Playoff and playout dates

The post-season will begin almost immediately. Tuesday the 12th will feature the two preliminary playoff matches, while the semi-finals will be played on May 16 and 17 for the first legs and May 19 and 20 for the return legs. The first leg of the final is scheduled for the 24th, with the second leg on the 29th.

The playout, meanwhile, will be played over the next two Fridays. The first leg will be on the 15th, and the second leg on the 22nd.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.