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Modena will return to tread the green ground of the Franchi di Siena stadium tomorrow after more than seven years. The last time was at the beginning of May 2014, when Novellino’s yellows, launched towards the playoffs, were privateers on the Tuscan field: the match ended 3 to 1 for the canaries, with a brace from Granoche and a goal from Babacar. For those who love numbers, we can say that there were 22 occasions (the first in the shadow of the Ghirlandina on 10 November 1935) in which the yellow and blue and bianconeri crossed arms in the league, twice in …
Modena will return to tread the green ground of the Franchi di Siena stadium tomorrow after more than seven years. The last time was at the beginning of May 2014, when Novellino’s yellows, launched towards the playoffs, were privateers on the Tuscan field: the match ended 3 to 1 for the canaries, with a brace from Granoche and a goal from Babacar. For lovers of numbers, we can say that there were 22 occasions (the first in the shadow of the Ghirlandina on 10 November 1935) in which the yellow and blue and bianconeri crossed arms in the league, twice in Serie A, twelve among the cadets and eight in Serie C. The balance sheet sees Modena in the lead, with 10 wins, 5 draws and 7 defeats; if we analyze only the previous eleven in the city of the Palio, the bianconeri are better with five wins against four of the yellows, five draws.
Among all these precedents, there are some that, for better or for worse, have remained impressions in the historical memory of Modena. First of all that of 28 November 1999 played in Siena and which saw the hosts win by 2 to 0. The date remains historic because that day, with the debut of Gianni De Biasi on the bench (with Doriano Tosi diesse) the tale of the Longobarda, the team that, with Sarmede’s coach at the helm, brought back the yellow and blue in the top flight after 38 years. And in that ride, in the 20012002 series B championship, the success that the canaries obtained in Siena, with a decisive goal by Cevoli, was very heavy for the purpose of promotion.
Instead, the only two matches played between Modena and Siena in Serie A bring back to less happy sensations and memories. at 0. The second Juventus goal was sensational, with Ballotta abandoning the door to beat a lateral foul: the ball was lost immediately in a contrast and it was easy for the former Chiesa to bag into the unguarded goal. Curiosity, in that Siena was Giuseppe Papadopulo, who is remembered in our country for a singular anecdote from a few years earlier. Contacted in the summer of 1998 by Gigi Montagnani to sit on the Modena bench and he ttò during a dinner at the home of the unforgettable canary president: the following day, however, Papadopulo left the city before signing the contract, much to the surprise of the canary managers. Going back to that 2004, Siena then won at the Braglia also in the return, in a real salvation play-off, seven days after the now sadly famous defeat of Verona against Chievo. The Tuscans won 3 to 1 and saved themselves at the expense of the yellows.
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