Frosinone 4-1 Juve Stabia at the Stadio Benito Stirpe, and the result was settled before the interval — three goals in an eighteen-minute burst between the 20th and 38th minutes that Massimiliano Alvini's side never relinquished.
The opening goal arrived in the 20th minute, Frosinone forward Giorgi Kvernadze converting with an assist from Farès Ghedjemis to break the deadlock. What followed was less a match than a controlled exercise in accumulation. Juve Stabia midfielder Kevin Piscopo was booked in the 28th minute, and the disruption appeared to compound the visitors' defensive disorganisation: a minute later, Frosinone midfielder Matteo Cichella made it 2-0, with Kvernadze turning provider this time. By the 38th minute, Frosinone forward Antonio Raimondo had added a third. Three goals, three different scorers, eighteen minutes — and a yellow card for Frosinone midfielder Romano Schmid on the stroke of half-time the only blemish on a dominant first-half display.
Juve Stabia forward Leonardo Candellone pulled one back three minutes into the second half, converting at 48' to make it 3-1 and briefly suggest the visitors might find some foothold. The response from Frosinone was to manage rather than panic, rotating through five substitutions across the second period. The decisive goal — Kvernadze's second of the afternoon, assisted by Raimondo — arrived in the 71st minute to restore the three-goal cushion and close the scoring at 4-1. That the assist came from Raimondo, who had himself scored in the first half, underlined the fluency of Frosinone's attacking connections on the day.
Kvernadze is the player this match will be remembered through. The Frosinone forward opened the scoring, then returned in the second half to seal it — a brace that bookended the afternoon and made him the thread connecting Frosinone's most important moments. His first goal initiated the decisive eighteen-minute sequence; his second, after Candellone's consolation had briefly narrowed the gap, was the statement that ended any residual uncertainty. Raimondo's role as both scorer and assist-provider gives the performance an additional dimension, but Kvernadze's contribution across both halves was the structural fact of the match.
Ignazio Abate's Juve Stabia arrived carrying the weight of a difficult run: one point from their last five matches, with twelve goals conceded across that span. The Coppa Italia offered no reprieve. Three yellow cards and a red card — Saná Fernandes dismissed in the 89th minute — told the story of a side that lost its discipline as the scoreline widened. Candellone's goal was a moment of individual quality against the run of play rather than evidence of collective recovery, and his withdrawal in the 77th minute left the visitors without their only source of genuine threat. The structural problems that produced eight goals conceded across their last three matches were visible again here.
Frosinone's form across their last five matches — five wins, fifteen goals scored, two conceded — is not a run that flatters to deceive. The last three of those matches have produced ten goals and a single goal against, a defensive solidity that sits alongside the attacking output rather than despite it. This Coppa Italia tie was played against a backdrop of four consecutive Serie B wins, and the continuity of performance across competitions suggests Alvini has built something with genuine cohesion rather than a side that saves its best for league points. For Juve Stabia, the form window offers no comfort: one point from five, four goals scored against twelve conceded, and a red card to end a Coppa Italia exit that was never in doubt after the first half-hour.
A month from now, this match will be remembered as the afternoon Kvernadze announced himself with a brace that framed a first-half demolition Juve Stabia had no answer for.