Match Report
On paper the standings were lopsided — Bari 1908 9th with 48 points, Cosenza 20th with 30, 18 apart. On recent form Bari 1908 sat only 17th league-wide over the last five rounds, well short of their 9th overall. Scoring rates set the scale: Cosenza 0.84 scored and 1.47 conceded per game, Bari 1908 1.08 and 1.05, with the league averaging 1.23.
Cosenza had gone 5 games without a win.
6 previous meetings sit in the GioScore records — Cosenza 1, draws 2, Bari 1908 3, at 2 goals per meeting. Low-scoring is the pattern: just 33% of the meetings went over two goals.
Stadio San Vito-Luigi Marulla in Cosenza, capacity 24,209, hosted the game. Cosenza led 1-0 at the break — the second half brought no more goals and it finished 1-0.
Goal scorers
Cosenza: Mario Gargiulo (36')