Sunday, 12 September 2010Serie A: Catania 2-1 Parma

Mascara pen 12 (C), Antenucci pen 82 (C), Giovinco 90 (P)

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Parma suffered a surprise defeat away to Catania this afternoon thanks to two dubious penalty decisions from match referee Dino Tommasi. Leaving Sebastian Giovinco’s superb freekick as little more than a consolation goal.

Catania took the lead after 12 minutes from the penalty spot where after chaos in the box Massimo Paci was adjudged to have Nicolas Spolli’s shirt resulting in Mascara duly converting the spot kick.

Zaccardo nearly gave Parma the equaliser almost immediately instead shooting straight at Andujar while moments later Zaccardo missed another opportunity this time firing over from an empty net.

Andujar clawed a Paci header from a corner kick off the line and again denied Valiani on the half hour mark as Parma were pouring forward in search of the equaliser.

Zaccardo once again was denied by the Catania keeper with a desperate reaction save from point blank range after the restart. Sebastian Giovinco also saw his superb freekick rattle the wrong side of the post before flashing a half volley across goal.

But it was another penalty that would kill the game off with ten minutes to go as Paci commited another clumsy challenge to allow Antenucci to score from the penalty spot sending Antonio Mirante the wrong way.

Sebastian Giovinco finally got a goal back for Parma in injury time from a trademark freekick but it was too little too late as Parma suffered their first defeat of the season.

While Alessandro Lucarelli and Pasquale Marino were both sent off for continued and possibly deserved protesting.

Catania

Andujar; Potenza, Silvestre, Spolli, Capuano; Izco (Gomez 57), Biagianti, Ledesma; Ricchiuti (Carboni 57); Maxi Lopez (Antenucci 79), Mascara

Parma

Mirante; Antonelli, Lucarelli, Paci, Zaccardo; Gobbi (Candreva 62), Morrone, Valiani; Marques, Bojinov (Crespo 62), Giovinco