Genoa and Bournemouth have provided starkly different interpretations of their recent pre-season encounter. While the Premier League side officially recorded the event as a 10-1 friendly victory, the Serie A club characterized the meeting as a “conjoined training session at the Bournemouth Performance Centre” rather than a standard competitive match.
The Cherries’ account highlights a dominant performance featuring a hat-trick from Justin Kluivert, alongside braces from Alex Scott and Enes Unal. Daniel Jebbison, David Brooks, and Malcom Dacosta Gonzalez also added to the tally. In contrast, Genoa omitted the result from their official website, maintaining that the format consisted of four distinct 30-minute periods. According to their breakdown, the sessions ended 1-0, 3-1, 3-0, and 3-0 respectively.
Mikael Ellertsson provided the lone goal for the visitors, while new defensive signing Mario Mitaj made his debut, conceding a penalty following a rash challenge. Coach Daniele De Rossi opted to field a squad primarily composed of youth players during the final two segments of the exercise. The event took place behind closed doors following Genoa’s double training session at St. George’s Park the previous day.
This fixture concluded a brief UK tour for the Italian team, who arrived in England on Saturday. Earlier in the trip, they secured a 1-0 victory over Leicester City at the King Power Stadium courtesy of a Lorenzo Colombo goal. The squad is now scheduled to return to Liguria.
They outlined that it was four sessions of 30 minutes each, the first ending 1-0, the second 3-1, the third 3-0 and the fourth also 3-0.
