Three points to find certainties. For the week of group A of Serie C – staged tomorrow, Sunday 3 October (2.30pm) – the Pro Patria hosts Virtus Verona at the Speroni di Busto, two teams, paired towards the slums of the classification (4pt), looking for the same goal: to find a square and reach the classification.
A ranking that is undoubtedly far from beautiful – too early to talk about the playout zone – but that (still) does not scare Mr. Prina, aware of the difficult moment the team went through, a run out of points: “I’m a realist, and in my realism I do not consider after six league games – commented the coach from Biella this evening on the eve of the match – I am a man of the field, I am a coach and so well that the accounts are not made at this time. I am convinced that a good championship we will reach the goal ».
But if Athens tries not to cry, Sparta doesn’t laugh. Virtus by Luigi Fresco is in fact still dry of victories, with four points obtained in the last four games, all drawn, three of which (Legnago, Pergose, Pro Vercelli) undergoing a comeback.
Challenge that will be tactical and mental. In this first quarter of the championship, the Venetians alternated 4312 and 4231, preferring the rhombus, «The tactical aspects will be important – confirms Prina -. We will have to be good at reading them while the game is in progress ». But even more important, the Tigrotti coach underlines, «will be the mental aspect. We are confident and we are aware that we need to grow and improve. Tomorrow can be a game that can give us a lot in this respect“.
After the latest defeats, the unfortunate one against Padova and the bad one in Lecco – where the Pro Patria has lost its historic ten-year unbeaten run – the tigers will in all likelihood take the field anyway with the proven 352, although Prina has not totally ruled out one the most offensive variant 343, maybe a game in progress: «Right now it can be an alternative but our path does not need a excess of ideas, but on the contrary we must try to do a few simple things well »In a word,“ concreteness ”. “The 434 – continues Prina – will in any case take more and more foot as an offensive module”.
It will not be easy tomorrow, because it is never easy or immediate to get out of a crisis of results, but, precisely for this reason, for the Pro Patria “it’s time to work”. Crisis that according to some newspapers would even feed rumors of bench at risk. Rumors that Prina nipped in the bud: “When I married this project, I have moved a defined, logical project, with very good young players and very reliable players. I do not define myself as a corporate or a masochist, I am a functional trainer to this type of team and club ».
RANKING – Padua 18 – Pro Vercelli 14 – Sudtirol, AlbinoLeffe 13 – Lecco 12 – Feralpisalò, Renate 10 – Trento 9 – Triestina 8 – Mantua, Giana, Seregno, Piacenza 7 – Juventus U23 6 – Fiorenzuola 5 – Virtus Verona, Pergolettese Pro Patria 4 – Legnago 2 – Pro Sesto 1
THE REFEREES – Domenico Leone of the Barletta Section will referee Pro Patria – Virtusvecomp Verona. To complete the triad, the assistants Francesco Piccichè of the Section of Trapani and Andrea Maria Masciale of the Section of Molfetta. Fourth Officer Jules Roland Andeng Tona Mbei of the Section of Wedge.
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