Serie A | Pisa 1-2 Genoa: Grifone practically guarantee top flight ticket

Genoa completed a comeback victory in Pisa with Jeff Ekhator and Lorenzo Colombo to practically guarantee their Serie A status for another season.

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This was a big opportunity for Daniele De Rossi to definitively break free of the danger zone, coming off a crucial 2-1 victory over Sassuolo. However, that ill-tempered match meant Ruslan Malinovskyi, Morten Frendrup and Mikael Ellertsson all sat out bans, with Maxwel Cornet, Brooke Norton-Cuffy and Benjamin Siegrist injured. Pisa remained rock bottom and missed Marius Marin along with the usual Daniel Denoon.

See how it all unfolded on the Liveblog.

Tommaso Baldanzi drilled just wide from the edge of the area for Genoa early on, but it was Pisa who took the lead by taking advantage of the usual Grifone weakness on set plays.

Samuele Angori floated in a corner for the towering header of defender Simone Canestrelli into the far bottom corner, VAR waving away appeals for a push on Stefano Sabelli.

It should’ve been 2-0 moments later when Pisa broke on the counter-attack from a Genoa corner, but Angori failed to beat Justin Bijlow one-on-one.

Aaron Martin fired a promising free kick into the wall, but Genoa equalised from a throw-in. Baldanzi combined with Lorenzo Colombo and laid it off for Jeff Ekhator, who smashed a left-foot screamer into the roof of the net from just inside the area.

Genoa nearly turned it around on the stroke of half-time, as Colombo bent a great finish from a tricky angle down the right and it shaved a coat of paint off the far top corner of the crossbar. They were doubly frustrated, as officials did not spot the deflection off Canestrelli.

Colombo came close again after the restart, meeting the Baldanzi disguised pass to force a tricky save from Semper at the near post.

Canestrelli slipped when trying to block off Baldanzi in the box and stuck out an arm to parry the finish for an inevitable penalty. The Grifone had missed four of the previous eight spot-kicks in Serie A this season, but Colombo put a perfect left-foot finish into the top corner.

Leo Ostigard tripped Stefano Moreo just outside the box and Bijlow needed a big save to deny Michel Aebischer at the near post, while Semper got down to keep out the Colombo angled drive at the other end.

Pisa 1-2 Genoa

Canestrelli 19 (P), Ekhator 41 (G), Colombo pen 55 (G)

19-04-2026 17:00

MatchDay 33

Arena Garibaldi – Stadio Romeo Anconetani

Pisa

Genoa

1 - 2

Player statistic

1st half

Simone Canestrelli (Assist: Samuele Angori)		19'
Arturo Calabresi		32'
		41'		Jeff Ekhator (Assist: Tommaso Baldanzi)

2nd half

		55'		Lorenzo Colombo
		67'		Leo Östigard
Michel Aebischer		80'
Antonio Caracciolo		87'

Pisa

Genoa

Starting lineups

1

Adrian Šemper

Goalkeeper

4

Antonio Caracciolo

Defender

33

Arturo Calabresi

Defender

61'

35

Felipe Loyola

Defender

56'

3

Samuele Angori

Defender

5

Simone Canestrelli

Defender

14

Ebenezer Akinsanmiro

Midfielder

61'

15

Idrissa Touré

Midfielder

70'

10

Matteo Tramoni

Midfielder

70'

20

Michel Aebischer

Midfielder

32

Stefano Moreo

Attacker

16

Justin Bijlow

Goalkeeper

3

Aarón Martín

Defender

27

Alessandro Marcandalli

Defender

22

Johan Vásquez

Defender

5

Leo Östigard

Defender

20

Stefano Sabelli

Defender

86'

4

Amorim

Midfielder

78'

73

Patrizio Masini

Midfielder

8

Tommaso Baldanzi

Midfielder

65'

21

Jeff Ekhator

Attacker

65'

29

Lorenzo Colombo

Attacker

79'

Substitutes

22

Simone Scuffet

Goalkeeper

12

Nicolas

Goalkeeper

39

Raúl Albiol

Defender

23

Calvin Stengs

Attacker

26

Francesco Coppola

Defender

8

Malthe Höjholt

Midfielder

2

Rosen Bozhinov

Defender

81

Filip Stojilkovic

Attacker

9

Henrik Meister

Attacker

56'

11

Juan Cuadrado

Midfielder

61'

21

Isak Vural

Midfielder

61'

36

Gabriele Piccinini

Attacker

70'

17

Rafiu Durosinmi

Attacker

70'

39

Daniele Sommariva

Goalkeeper

1

Nicola Leali

Goalkeeper

75

Gaël Lafont

Midfielder

13

Nils Zätterström

Defender

80

Jacopo Grossi

Midfielder

99

Latif Ouedraogo

Defender

10

Junior Messias

Attacker

65'

14

Jean Onana

Midfielder

65'

9

Vitinha

Attacker

78'

18

Caleb Ekuban

Attacker

79'

34

Sebastian Otoa

Defender

86'