Benevento vs Hellas Verona — Serie B: stats, lineups & analysis
Match Events
- 17′Benevento, goal:1–0assist
- 24′Hellas Verona, goal:1–1assist
- 32′Hellas Verona, yellow card:Foul
- Half-time1 – 1
- 46′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 48′Benevento, yellow card:Foul
- 59′Benevento, goal:2–1assist
- 61′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 61′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 63′Hellas Verona, yellow card:Foul
- 65′Benevento, goal:3–1assist
- 69′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 71′Benevento, substitution:off
- 74′Benevento, yellow card:Time wasting
- 74′Benevento, substitution:off
- 78′Benevento, substitution:off
- 82′Hellas Verona, substitution:off
- 88′Hellas Verona, yellow card:
- 90′Benevento, yellow card:Argument
- 90′Hellas Verona, yellow card:Argument
- Full-time3 – 1
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Match report
Benevento overturn early scare to sink Hellas Verona 3-1
Benevento beat Hellas Verona 3-1 at Stadio Ciro Vigorito in matchday four of Serie B, recovering from a leveller to seal their first win of the campaign since the opening rounds. The result lifts the home side to 13th while Verona sit 11th, both level on four points before kickoff.
AI-assisted match report written from official match data.
Edoardo Pierozzi put Benevento ahead after 17 minutes, finishing from Davide Lamesta's assist, but Hellas Verona responded quickly through Amin Sarr, who converted a chance created by A. Le Borgne to make it 1-1 by the 24th minute. The sides went in level at half-time after an even opening period.
Benevento pulled away after the break. David Okereke restored their lead in the 59th minute, teed up by Mattia Maita, and six minutes later Lamesta got on the scoresheet himself, assisted by Christian Kouan, to make it 3-1 and settle the contest.
Despite having less of the ball, Benevento made the more direct impact going forward, and the scoreline reflected a match in which their clinical edge in each box proved decisive.
Lamesta struck the decisive third goal and also set up Pierozzi's opener, a display that earned him the highest rating on the pitch at 8.6.
Benevento had 42% possession yet produced more shots on target than Verona, six to three, underlining their efficiency in front of goal.
Benevento beat Hellas Verona 3–1 (half-time 1–1).
Benevento met Hellas Verona in the Serie B (Regular Season - 4). Kick-off was Friday, 11 September 2026, 19:00 UTC at Stadio Ciro Vigorito. Referee: Livio Marinelli.
Team pages: Benevento · Hellas Verona · Serie B
Key moments
- 17' Goal: Edoardo Pierozzi (assist: Davide Lamesta) — 1–0
- 24' Goal: Amin Sarr (assist: A. Le Borgne) — 1–1
- 59' Goal: David Okereke (assist: Mattia Maita) — 2–1
- 65' Goal: Davide Lamesta (assist: Christian Kouan) — 3–1
Starting line-ups
Benevento (4-3-2-1)
Hellas Verona (4-3-3)
Sirius · Why these numbers
Before kick-off Sirius gave Benevento 25%, the draw 36%, Hellas Verona 39%. It finished Benevento 3–1 Hellas Verona.
Hellas Verona's rating edge, but the draw is in play — Hellas Verona are the stronger side on our strength rating, and a weak Serie B home advantage plus their cold finishing due to recover on top give Hellas Verona the lean. The draw at 36% is helped by a draw-heavy league.
Why Hellas Verona at 39%?
Hellas Verona sit 179 points higher on our strength rating — 1379 to 1559. Sides with a 100–200-point rating edge on the road won 40.1% of 13,161 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 4,042 games vs 44.9% across all 100,057 — outside the noise band, so the tally moves accordingly. 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 39.0% of 2,433 such games where the class table expected 36.3%. The 300 most similar past games finished 30–21–49.
Why only 39%?
No scored evidence points the other way. 39% is what this rating gap has been worth in games like these; the rest is the draw at 36% and Benevento at 25%.
Why is the draw second, ahead of the Benevento win?
With a rating gap this size the draw starts at 27.2%. These teams' recent games average 3.0 goals — a typical goals environment. Games in that environment drew 24.6% of 25,040. 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?
Benevento average 9 points more possession, but the rating gap here is 179 points. Our control receipt only exists between near-equals — there it moved results; across a class gap we could not measure a separate style edge, so style scores 0 here. Benevento are newly promoted — game 4 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. The other measured facts on this page scored nothing either.
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About this match
On this page: the Benevento vs Hellas Verona final score and result, who scored, starting lineups, match stats and the full match report from this Serie B fixture.
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