Verona, according to the derby and Venice in trouble. Vicenza, another ally in the race to safety. Pordenone is almost C, Cittadella, what strength! Südtirol-Padova and a door ajar. Trieste full speed ahead
Sunday 27 February 2022 – 11:44 pm – Author: Dimitri Canello
It is difficult to talk about football when you read words like “nuclear nightmare” and when after two years of hell with the pandemic you were only waiting for a moment of peace. But we try. Because there are so many things to say. For example in Serie A, where Verona crushes Venice, wins the derby for the second time after the first leg and reaches 40. An extraordinary milestone, if it is true that already today in February Tudor did better than Juric, if it is It is true that the quotations of many leading players have risen and, for this very reason, Maurizio Setti rubs his hands. Contested even when he wins, he has been living a truce for some time now. Because, needless to say, he was right on the whole front. He knows how to run a company, he has chosen the right men and now he enjoys the harvest after the (long) sowing. Barak, on the day of his injury, is there to remind us that he is a great team. Simeone is a show and can reach 20 goals, Caprari is a certainty, but the whole mechanism works perfectly.
In Venice, if the values are those of the second half of the Bentegodi, the only possible epilogue of the season is relegation. Good first half, shot from horror movies. Come to think about it, without the extremes of a result that in December was sensational, in form and substance as it matured. Today we got the impression that someone on the pitch has no idea what it means to sacrifice and fight for salvation. Certainly the homework cannot be enough, but what we highlighted in the summer in the construction of the team is finding punctuality in what happens on the pitch. This is why the home match with Genoa was to be welcomed with a twist, for this reason there are not many things to say about what happens behind the scenes. But for now we prefer to gloss over, also because nothing is lost and the team has often shown that they dare the best of themselves when they were with their backs to the wall. There are three direct clashes to win, without “ifs” and without “buts”: those with Sampdoria and Udinese at Penzo and that of La Spezia. If you want to save, you have to start putting together three points in these games. Or do like Udinese, who go to gnaw lifeblood where it is least expected, on the field of leaders Milan, for example.
Days go by and Vicenza believes more and more in the possibility of hooking up the playouts. With one more ally on the road to staying in the category. It’s called Reggina, a club in great financial difficulty that at the end of the year could have a lot of problems staying on its feet. For now let’s put a point, but let’s keep the antennas straight, because in Reggio Calabria the situation is really complicated and could soon worsen. On the pitch the team beats a Pordenone by now on the gas and who greets Serie B, recovers three points in Spal, Crotone and Alessandria, as well as eliminating the Ramarri from the games permanently and continues to run. Purchases hit the spot: from two of the last editorial (Contini and Maio), we add a third (Da Cruz), which has put further qualities in front and for now keeps the hot spirits at bay, Boli and Bikel affirms the sufficiency, rejected Lukaku ( how can it arise under certain conditions?) and Teodorczyk. Maggio is objectively a gamble in the dark, but what Balzaretti did after the summer disasters of Magalini and Di Carlo could be enough to catch the playoff train. And it was certainly not taken for granted. The Citadel is a marvel, week in which a player like Okwonkwo commits a trifle to put their hands in their hair. The best answer, however, comes from the attack. Tounkara and Beretta even score with a brace. The signal that the machine works even when it loses some important piece.
Let’s move on to C. After thirty consecutive useful results, Südtirol falls to Piacenza. Defeat that for now does not hurt too much, but in the meantime Massimo Oddo’s Padua has gone from -10 to -7. He must recover four points up to the direct match, win it to Drusus and then complete the work on the last day. Very difficult mission, in all honesty, but if the new coach says he believes in the staff and in the possibility of obtaining an important one, it is right to give him a chance result. A door that is ajar for now, who knows next week. Two words also on the exemption of Massimo Pavanel. Kicked out after 20 points out of 24 in eight games, 6 wins and 2 draws, an average of 2.18 per game, 21 consecutive useful results and a team that hasn’t lost since 25 October. Difficult, from memory, something similar, but Massimiliano Mirabelli wanted to take a risk, putting himself heavily into play. If he is okay with his hat, because he has chosen to face a pitfall not just. Will he be right or not? For now, the judgment must be suspended and the success with the Pro Sesto cannot be enough, made up of lights (good first half, a great goal) and shadows (management of the second half) to certify the turning point. We will know more next Sunday against Feralpisalò, if he sees Südtirol with Mantua and then yes while Piacenza was a physiological road accident or if there is something more serious in progress. Triestina is also running fast, four wins in four games and a destiny as a protagonist if she manages to put the pieces of the puzzle together. In Mauro Milanese he wanted to close the company rumors by explaining in a phone call how who to spend the week the club, in the eventuality, must through him and not through Mario Biasin, since the au is the only one to have signatory power. This too is an important clarification, which it is right to report. But, as specified, the Zanutta brothers’ interest in the club is destined to remain so, because the Triestina is not for sale today. And maybe finally find on the pitch those satisfactions that a square deserves that less than three years ago brought 22 thousand people to the Rocco for the final promotion.
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