Cittadella beat Monza 3-0 in the first leg of the Serie B play-off semi-final, while Venezia won against Lecce.

The 24-year-old scored two goals in the opening 21 minutes and finished the job with five minutes remaining in the second half.

Mario Balotelli started on the bench and was thrown in after 83 minutes, when his side were 2-0 down.

Monza can still turn it around with a 3-0 win at home on Thursday as they finished above Cittadella in the regular season.

Venezia beat Lecce 1-0 thanks to a goal from Francesco Forte.

Cittadella beat Monza 3-0 in the first leg of the Serie B play-off semi-final, while Venezia won against Lecce.

The 24-year-old scored two goals in the opening 21 minutes and finished the job with five minutes remaining in the second half.

Mario Balotelli started on the bench and was thrown in after 83 minutes, when his side were 2-0 down.

Monza can still turn it around with a 3-0 win at home on Thursday as they finished above Cittadella in the regular season.

Venezia beat Lecce 1-0 thanks to a goal from Francesco Forte.

The second leg is scheduled for Thursday at 17.30 UK time. Eugenio Corini's side can qualify for the Final with a 1-0 win.

Cittadella-Monza 3-0

Cittadella: Kastrati; Ghiringhelli, Adorni, Frare (Perticone 28), Donnarumma; Proia (Pavan 63), Iori (D’Urso 75), Branca (Gargiulo 64); Vita; Tsadjout (Ogunseye 75),

Monza: Di Gregorio; Pirola, Paletta (Scaglia 14), Bettella; Sampirisi, Frattesi, Barberis, Armellino (Colpani 63), Carlos Augusto (D’Alessandro 83); Diaw (Gytkjaer 63), Mota Carvalho (Balotelli 82).  

 

Venezia-Lecce 1-0

Venezia: Maempaa, Molinaro, Taugordeau (Svoboda 87), Mazzocchi, Aramu (Dezi 74), Forte (Bocalon 87), Modolo, Fiordilino (Crnigoj 74), Johnsen (Di Mariano 64), Maleh, Ceccaroni.

Lecce: Gabriel, Maggio, Lucioni, Mancosu, Coda, Stępiński (Yalcin 77), Dermaku, Björkengren (Henderson 65), Gallo, Majer (Nikolov 77), Hjulmand.

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