San Marino. Double derby in the last championship weekend of 2021
Last weekend of competitions of the calendar year as regards the Sammarine football withers.
It has already closed its 2021 La Fiorita, who will observe the rest shift on the weekend at the gates. And that could bring a +9 to the Tre Penne on the first of the pursuers, waiting for Ceci’s boys to stop and observe their counterparts on the field.
However, proceeding in chronological order, Saturday is above all the derby of the Castello di Fiorentino. Tre Fiori, third in the standings, is looking for an encore of the season on their rossoblù cousins after having ousted them in the double challenge of the Titan Cup in the round of 16 (1-1, 2-0). Cecchetti’s team comes from the second game of the season without goals to their assets, produced in the goalless draw with Folgore. On the other hand, the Fiorentino wants to find continuity of results in a month of only defeats in December. In fact, we need to rewind the tape on Matchday 10 to find a victory for Malandri’s men (3-2 over Libertas).
The intersection between San Giovanni and Folgore, scheduled for 3:00 pm on Saturday in Domagnano, is anything but obvious. The Lepri teams have accustomed us to starting quietly, having said that the championship format – revised two years ago – gives ample guarantees to the first four classified and to their placement at the end of the regular season. If the head of the standings, despite a game to be recovered on the Tre Penne, is fifteen points away, the nine that currently separate the reigning champions from the second place of La Fiorita (stopped this weekend) are anything but unbridgeable – especially with a certain performance in direct matches. What is the comparison with San Giovanni at the moment, ninth in the standings with 13 points to his credit. Just three less than the Thunderbolt for Tognacci’s team, which gave the Rossoneri a clear identity of compactness and competitive spirit: in short, a team in his image and likeness that this season is getting quite satisfying and that wants to be a protagonist up to bottom.
And speaking of value returns, it certainly cannot be denied that Virtus is the great surprise of the year, although the skilful construction of the squad – especially in the last two seasons – had hinted at a prominent near future for the Neroverdi di Acquaviva. . Bizzotto, who hopes to be able to count on Sorrentino full-time as soon as possible, has forged a team capable of conceding only eight goals to their opponents. Better than them only La Fiorita, who played one more game than the same score of goals conceded. In short, Virtus can confirm itself as the best defense of the tournament, if it gets a clean sheet with Cailungo. A condition that would allow Apezteguia and his teammates to further move the ranking which in case of victory would be worth a Christmas in second place. An outcome that Cailungo certainly does not wish for, today penultimate and with a delay of seven points from twelfth place – the last useful for not ending the season when the regular season. The success on the Cosmo last week has given greater awareness to Protti’s men, called to an examination that is likely to say the least.
The picture of the advances is completed by one of the three derbies of the Serravalle Castle: Cosmos and Juvenes-Dogana could today be excluded from the preliminary round of the Scudetto play-offs. The goal for both must necessarily be to achieve success – which for Cosmos would eventually be the first of the season – unless the minimum goal is further away.
Concerned spectator Faetano, who currently finds himself limiting the quota valid for the preliminary round. Girolomoni’s yellow-blues are expected from Fiorentino’s confrontation with Murata, placed four points higher. Both come from a fluctuating period: Murata has won only once in the last five outings and is back from three rounds without a win, in which the draws with San Giovanni and Pennarossa were interspersed by the defeat suffered at the hands of the Thunderbolt. Slightly better the trend of Faetano, who after four positive results ran into 0-3 with the Tre Fiori of the previous round.
Complex calendar for Pennarossa, who – for a long time in the first four positions – was seen approached and overtaken by Virtus and Libertas, now having to register the Folgore in the rear-view mirrors. Of course, the injury emergency and a few too many disqualification have certainly not made the game of the Chiesanuova club, which in recent weeks has faced Folgore, Tre Penne and Virtus with very few players available. The calendar does not offer much better, given that Libertas – after the setback with Fiorentino and Cailungo, in which they scrapped only one point – resumed their march last Saturday, overwhelming Juvenes-Dogana 7-1. The distance that separates the grenades from fourth place is in the order of three points and Cardini’s men do not want to leave any stone unturned in the last effort of the calendar year.
Which will close on Sunday also for Tre Penne and Domagnano, who will return to face each other after the double engagement of the Titan Cup that awarded Mancini’s men. Fall of the seeded n. 2, the Domagnano is back to play a cup semifinal that will see – in the new year – the Wolves opposed to the Thunderbolt. But first there is the fate of the championship to be revived: the Giallorossi are still stuck with four consecutive victories strung together at the beginning of the season, then the collapse with only one point obtained in seven games (0-0 with Cosmos). The last opponent of the year is certainly not the best possible customer, considering the ease with which the Czech men find the goal and the possibility of fielding a 19-goal Badalassi in 17 seasonal matches. Averages that rise further considering only the championship, where the former Tre Fiori and Folgore striker finds the way to the net every 58 minutes.
this the painting of the 13th day of the championship:
San Marino Championship 2021-22, 13th matchday | ||||||
SQUAD | SQUAD | ARBITRATION | DATA | HOURS | PLACE | |
Three Flowers | Florentine | Zani (Lunardon, G. de Girolamo) –
D. de Girolamo |
18/12 | 15:00 | Living Water | |
Saint John | Thunderbolt | Lights (Salvatori, Depaoli) – Andruccioli | 18/12 | 15:00 | Domagnano | |
Virtus | Cailungo | Small (Zaghini, Cordani) – Tuttifrutti | 18/12 | 15:00 | Montecchio | |
Cosmos | Juvenes-Customs | Kaddoudi (Gallo, Morisco) – Delvecchio | 18/12 | 15:00 | Florentine | |
Three Pens | Domagnano | D. de Girolamo (G. de Girolamo, Giannotti) – Tura | 19/12 | 15:00 | Montecchio | |
Murata | Faetano | Borriello (Guidi, Ilie) – Villa | 19/12 | 15:00 | Florentine | |
freedom | Red pen | Avoni (Cristiano, Sapigni) – Tuttifrutti | 19/12 | 15:00 | Domagnano | |
rests | La Fiorita |