Sunday 24th December at 4.30am (AEDT)
Nineteenth game of the season for Catania FC, last of this Calendar year and the last of the first half of the season. It is also the tenth time away from home for the Elephants, where so far have won only three times and already lost four times.
The game is against the Sorcerers of Benevento, an important Campanian town of 58,000 people, 50km from Naples.
This is going to be the 15th time that Catania plays in Benevento, where Catania have won 4 times (the last in 1975) , same of Benevento (last time in 2015, when the Sorcerers won the League and were promoted to Serie B).
Benevento last year was in Serie B and was relegated in Serie C after 7 years between Serie A and Serie B, having important coaches such as De Zerbi, F. Inzaghi and Cannavaro.
Despite their recent succesfull history, the team of Benevento is not dominating the league as expected. Their choice of hiring the youngest coach in Italy (Andreoletti, 34 years old) at the moment is not paying. In the last 5 games they only made 4 points out of 15. Even Catania, that lost the last 2 games, did better in the last 5 games (7 points). However Catania is currently sitting 11th in the ladder with 22 points, 8 points less than Benevento (7th position).
Unfortunately the Elephants supporters resident in Catania are not allowed to access Benevento's stadium after the issues against Pescara supporters last week, so only few Catania's supporter will be there at the game.
Catania is in emergency as only 16 players are available tomorrow. Let's hope to see a good game and that Catania win against the ex-RossAzzurro Alessandro Marotta (see pictures below).
Go Elephants Go!
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