Empoli 2 - 1 Crotone: Empoli move off foot of Serie A by edging out fellow strugglers Crotone
Posted Tuesday, September 13, 2016 by PA
Empoli moved off the bottom of Serie A with a 2-1 home victory over Crotone.
Central defenders Giuseppe Bellusci and Andrea Costa punished Crotone's fallibility at set-pieces to score with firm headers.
Bellusci, on loan from Leeds, met Manuel Pasqual's 31st-minute corner to thunder home Empoli's first goal of the season.
Promoted Crotone were hopeful of their maiden point in Serie A when substitute Mario Sampirisi delivered a deft header in first-half stoppage time.
But Costa profited from Pasqual's 56th-minute free-kick and Crotone, who are now bottom of the table, were reduced to 10 men in the closing stages when Noe Dussenne received a second yellow card.
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