PALERMO starting XI (4-3-3): Pigliacelli, Diakité, Nedelcearu, Ceccaroni, Aurelio, Segre (subbed for Traorè), Gomes, Ranocchia (subbed for Coulibaly), Di Mariano (subbed for Vasic), Brunori (subbed for Soleri), Di Francesco (subbed for Insigne)
Bench: Nespola, Kanuric, Stulac, Mancuso, Marconi, Buttaro, Henderson
Goals: Brunori 35’, Ranocchia 64’, Di Francesco 83’
COMO starting XI (4-2-3-1): Semper, Curto (subbed for Nsame), Goldaniga, Barba, Ioannou, Baselli (subbed for Kone who was subbed for Abildgaard), Bellemo, Strefezza, Verdi (subbed for Chaija), Da Cunha, Gabrielloni (subbed for Ballet)
Bench: Bolchini, Sala, Iovine, Gioacchini, Odenthal, Braunoder, Cassandro
Como had a staggering 67 per cent of possession and created 13 chances to Palermo’s five.
The home side took the lead in the 35th minute when Mattero Brunori met Francesco Di Mariano’s cross at the near post to send it over the keeper and into the roof of the net.
Filippo Ranocchia made it 2-0 in the 64th minute when another dangerous Di Mariano cross was cleared into his path for a straightforward finish.
Federico Di Francesco sealed the points for Palermo in the 83rd minute after a cleverly-chipped through ball from a Brunori freekick put him through on goal. Di Francesco still had a bit to do from a tight angle and do it he did, sending the ball low into the far post.
Palermo are now third on the table as Como move down to fifth, equal on points.
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