US international Danny Szetela made his second straight appearance in the Brescia jersey as the Rondinelle won 1-0 at home over next-to-last Spezia.

The home side's lineup was missing six starters, so Brescia's head coach Serse Cosmi ran a 4-3-1-2 formation with Fabrizio Zambrella as attacking midfielder just behind the attacking combo of Roberto De Zerbi and Andrea Caracciolo.

It was a first half with few opportunities and less fun; Brescia took the control of the game, but didn't create scoring chances as Spezia played defensively with Marco Zaninelli as sweeper.

Near to halftime, Spezia lost a man when Ondrej Herzan was sent off after his second yellow card. At the start of second period, Brescia broke the tie with Riccardo Taddei beating Spezia keeper Nicola Santoni.

Spezia tried to react, but La Rondinelle held on to pull out the three points.

Next up for Brescia is another home game against Bari, a team now untroubled and out of relegation battle.

Scoring
BRE - Riccardo Taddei 1 47'

Line-ups
BRE - Michele Arcari; Gaetano Berardi, Francesco Bega, Davide Zoboli (Danny Szetela 65'), Simone Dallamano; Leandro Depetris (Riccardo Taddei 46'), Alessio Tacchinardi, Francisco Lima; Fabrizio Zambrella; Roberto De Zerbi, Andrea Caracciolo (Robert Feczesin 69')

SPE - Nicola Santoni; Alberto Bianchi, Marco Zaninelli, Luca Ceccarelli; Alfonso Camorani, Ondrej Herzan, Fabrizio Romondini, Francesco Millesi (Giorgio Di Vicino 81'), Gabriel Fernandez; Isah Eliakwu (Amadou Kontè 89'), Massimiliano Guidetti (Francesco Zizzari 69')

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