Venezia, represented by Joel Pohjanpalo, defeated Modena 5–0 and leaped within a point of the promotion qualification spot.
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Finnish national team striker Joel Pohjanpalo scored four goals as Venezia cruised to a 5-0 win over Modena in Italy’s second-highest Serie B division.
Pohjanpalo, wearing the captain’s armband, scored the opening goal of the match in the 32nd minute of the game. The Finnish top scorer also scored in the 54th and 72nd minutes and completed his tough day with ten minutes of actual game time left. Soon after this, Pohjanpalo was substituted, accompanied by applause.
– The first goal was a great, downright classic “bottom fire finish”. After a great pattern, he was able to score the second one, chipped the third and then the fourth goal from the spot. Then, on the side of the bench, while the crowd chanted the name of the Finnish striker, Urheilu’s reporter who followed the match on the spot Jussi Vainikka described.
Pohjanpalo has now scored 17 goals in the current season and he has risen to share the top spot in the goal exchange with Cagliari Gianluca Lapadula with.
Jesse Joronen played the full 90 minutes in the Venezia goal.
With the win, Venezia moved up from 14th to tenth place in the standings and is only one point away from the eighth place that qualifies for promotion. The team has three matches left.
Pohjanpalo moved to Venezia from Bayern Leverkusen in August 2022.