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Como overturns Genoa deficit in Champions League warm-up against Leipzig

From Die Zeit · () German

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  • Como 1907 beat Genoa 4-1 after conceding first, securing its second win in three Serie A matches and temporarily moving top of the table.
  • Martin Baturina, Assane Diao and Nico Paz scored for Como, which will host RB Leipzig in its Champions League debut.
  • The club, which played in Italy’s fourth tier in 2019, is entering the competition for the first time.

Como 1907 will enter its first Champions League campaign after turning a 1-0 deficit into a 4-1 win at Genoa, giving Cesc Fàbregas’s team an impressive final test before facing RB Leipzig.

Milutin Osmajic put Genoa ahead in the 19th minute. Como responded through Martin Baturina in the 25th, Assane Diao five minutes later and Nico Paz in the 40th. Diao added his second goal in the 78th minute.

The victory was Como’s second in three matches and temporarily placed the club at the top of Serie A. Como will host Bundesliga side RB Leipzig on Thursday at the Stadio Giuseppe Sinigaglia, a ground located directly on the shore of Lake Como.

The club was still playing in Italy’s fourth division in 2019. Now it is preparing for its first appearance in the Champions League.

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Originally published by Die Zeit in German. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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