Match Events
- 3′Hellas Verona, yellow card:Foul
- 39′Hellas Verona, yellow card:Foul
- 40′Arezzo, red card:Professional foul last man
- 42′Arezzo, substitution:off
- Half-time
- 46′Arezzo, substitution:off
- 46′Arezzo, substitution:off
- 46′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 50′Hellas Verona, goal:1–0assist
- 58′Hellas Verona, goal:2–0assist
- 59′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 61′Arezzo, substitution:off
- 73′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 73′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 75′Hellas Verona, goal:3–0assist
- 78′Hellas Verona, goal:4–0assist
- 79′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 85′Hellas Verona, goal:5–0assist
- 86′Arezzo, substitution:off
- 90′Arezzo, yellow card:Foul
- Full-time5 – 0
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Match report
Hellas Verona thrash ten-man Arezzo 5-0 in Serie B rout
Hellas Verona demolished Arezzo 5-0 in a Serie B round three fixture that turned decisively when Julián Illanes was sent off in the 40th minute, leaving the visitors to play the entire second half a man short. The scoreline remained goalless at the interval despite Arezzo's numerical disadvantage looming large.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Verona took full advantage after the break. Gabriele Zappa opened the scoring in the 50th minute, finished off a Domagoj Bradarić assist, and Samuele Mulattieri doubled the lead eight minutes later from the same provider. Salvatore Cerbone then struck twice, in the 75th and 78th minutes, the second teed up by Mulattieri, before Edoardo Iannoni completed the rout in the 85th minute with an assist from Tomáš Suslov.
Verona dominated territory and chances throughout, holding 68 percent of possession and outshooting Arezzo sixteen to four, with nine shots on target compared to just one for the visitors. The home side also won six corners to none, underlining their total control once Arezzo were reduced to ten men.
Mulattieri contributed a goal and an assist as Verona pulled clear, earning the highest rating on the pitch at 8.83.
Verona's 68 percent possession reflected their overwhelming control of the contest after Arezzo's red card.
Hellas Verona beat Arezzo 5–0 (half-time 0–0).
Hellas Verona met Arezzo in the Serie B (Regular Season - 3). Kick-off was Sunday, 6 September 2026, 15:15 UTC at Stadio Marcantonio Bentegodi. Referee: Luca Zufferli.
Team pages: Hellas Verona · Arezzo · Serie B
Key moments
- 40' Red card: Julián Illanes
- 50' Goal: Gabriele Zappa (assist: Domagoj Bradarić) — 1–0
- 58' Goal: Samuele Mulattieri (assist: Domagoj Bradarić) — 2–0
- 75' Goal: S. Cerbone (assist: Edoardo Iannoni) — 3–0
- 78' Goal: S. Cerbone (assist: Samuele Mulattieri) — 4–0
- 85' Goal: Edoardo Iannoni (assist: Tomáš Suslov) — 5–0
Starting line-ups
Hellas Verona (4-2-3-1)
Arezzo (4-5-1)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Hellas Verona 29%, the draw 39%, Arezzo 32%. It finished Hellas Verona 5–0 Arezzo.
Arezzo's rating edge, but the draw is in play — Arezzo are the stronger side on our strength rating, and a weak Serie B home advantage plus the early-season home fade on top give Arezzo the lean. The draw at 39% is the likeliest single result, helped by a draw-heavy league.
Why Arezzo at 32%?
Arezzo sit 168 points higher on our strength rating — 1522 to 1690. Sides with a 100–200-point rating edge on the road won 40.1% of 13,146 such games. Serie B home sides under-perform the global norm — and the difference mostly flows to draws (32.2% vs 24.9% norm) and away wins (26.1% vs 30.2%). Serie B homes won 41.7% of 4,035 games vs 44.9% across all 99,907 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. Both sides are inside their first six league games — home wins land softer this early in the season, so this trims Hellas Verona's column. Across 10,972 opening-stretch games since 2010, home sides won 42.7% where the rating map expected 44.9%, with draws up 2.0 — negative in every season since 2018. The 300 most similar past games finished 28–29–43.
Why only 32%?
Hellas Verona sit -0.62 goals per game below chance-quality — cold streaks like this have bounced back. Finishing swings carry a receipt at this rating gap too: sides finishing this cold won 38.9% of 2,420 such games where the class table expected 36.3%.
Why is the draw the likeliest result?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.2%. These teams' recent games average 2.5 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 26.2% of 27,753. Serie B runs draw-heavy, adding 7.3 points. Early-season fixtures add 2.0 points to the draw.
What did we measure but not count?
Arezzo are newly promoted — game 3 of their first ten at this level, where our rating knows them least. Promoted sides ran below their rating in nine of the last ten seasons — 26.5% wins in their first ten games where the rating expected 30.0% (2,793 games since 2012), fading but still visible through game nineteen. Hellas Verona on 2 days' rest, Arezzo on 6. Once class is accounted for, rest gaps stopped mattering — across 43,656 measured games no rest advantage repeated.
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On this page: the Hellas Verona vs Arezzo final score and result, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Serie B fixture.
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