Avellino dismantle Vicenza with clinical efficiency
Avellino beat Vicenza 3-0 at the Stadio Partenio-Adriano Lombardi in Serie B Regular Season Round 2 on 29 August. The result leaves both sides level on three points from two matches, though now separated by goal difference. Avellino sit tenth while Vicenza drop to eleventh.
Besaggio opened the scoring in the eleventh minute, and Russo doubled the lead five minutes later. By then Vicenza looked unsettled, pressing forward without structure. Moruzzi made it three at the start of the second half, catching the visitors off-guard. And here's the thing about a 2-0 advantage so early — it changes how a team plays for the remaining seventy-five minutes.
Avellino controlled the tempo despite holding just forty-one percent possession. They made twenty-four attacks compared to Vicenza's seventy-four, which tells its own story. The visitors threw bodies forward but lacked the final touch. Eight of Avellino's ten shots found the target, while Vicenza managed only three from ten attempts.
Vicenza made three substitutions at the interval — Pietrelli, Carraro and Moncini — perhaps hoping for a different approach. They kept coming but Avellino's defence, with forty-six clearances, held firm. The home side won twenty-five tackles to eight, and that pressure eventually told.
Both teams carried identical records before kickoff, one win and one defeat each. Avellino's recent form showed vulnerability — losses to Arezzo and Monza, plus a 3-6 defeat to Lazio — but this performance suggested something had shifted. Vicenza had won their opener 3-2 against Catanzaro but couldn't replicate that against a disciplined opponent.
The three-goal margin gives Avellino momentum heading into their next fixture. Vicenza now face the task of recovering from a result that exposed their attacking inefficiency. Seven attempts off target is not a recipe for success at this level.