A 2-1 victory over Lazio put an end to the Viola's predicament, but coach Raffaele Palladino and Yacine Adli were both suspended when Adli was sent off in that match. Danilo Cataldi, a recent addition Albert Gudmundsson faced his old team, although Pablo Mari and Edoardo Bove were out. In addition to continuing to keep Mario Balotelli out, Genoa missed Mattia Bani, Alessandro Zanoli, Ruslan Malinovskyi, and Honest Ahanor.
There was some disagreement in the first few minutes when Morten Frendrup fell with a hold of Dodo's shirt, but the referee gave the Fiorentina player a foul after a VAR On-Field Review. Rolando Mandragora put up a free kick, and Kean waited for it to drop over his shoulder before scoring with an acrobatic flick off the outside of his right boot as he swirled from ten yards out, breaking the tie.