{"id":31430,"date":"2025-06-24T16:07:27","date_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/serie-b-sampdoria-avoid-relegation-after-being-awarded-victory-over-salernitana\/"},"modified":"2025-06-24T16:07:29","modified_gmt":"2025-06-24T16:07:29","slug":"serie-b-sampdoria-avoid-relegation-after-being-awarded-victory-over-salernitana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/serie-b-sampdoria-avoid-relegation-after-being-awarded-victory-over-salernitana\/","title":{"rendered":"Serie B: Sampdoria avoid relegation after being awarded victory over Salernitana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Sampdoria will remain in Serie B after the league awarded them a 3\u20130 win over Salernitana following the postponement of Sunday&#8217;s second-leg relegation play-off.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c625wxp7d74o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">game was called off in the 65th minute<\/a> with Sampdoria leading 2-0 on the night and 4-0 on aggregate after Salernitana fans threw smoke bombs and seats on to the pitch.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The decision by Serie B&#8217;s sports judge to award Sampdoria a 3-0 victory secured a 5-0 aggregate win and guaranteed their escape from what had seemed certain relegation to the third tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former Italian champions were initially relegated to Serie C for the first time in their 78-year history in May before being handed a lifeline after the season ended when Brescia were docked eight points for a series of financial violations, dropping them below Sampdoria and granting the Genoa club a place in the relegation play-off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Frustration for the home fans began during the early stages of the second leg when Gian Marco Ferrari thought he had scored the opener before the goal was ruled out for handball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Four minutes, later Massimo Coda handed the visitors the lead before Giuseppe Sibilli made it 4-0 on aggregate just after the break.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The home fans in Salerno immediately turned on their team following the second goal, with relegation to Serie C looking all but certain, as flares, firecrackers and chairs were thrown on to the field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Salernitana have been relegated for the second successive year and the club have also been ordered to play two matches of next season&#8217;s Serie C campaign behind closed doors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cwyxjdzn75ko\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sampdoria will remain in Serie B after the league awarded them a 3\u20130 win over Salernitana following the postponement of Sunday&#8217;s second-leg relegation play-off. The game was called off in the 65th minute with Sampdoria leading 2-0 on the night and 4-0 on aggregate after Salernitana fans threw smoke bombs and seats on to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[19,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31432,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31430\/revisions\/31432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}