Ales Mateju came off during the match against Cosenza after receiving a stomp in a pass. A blow, which should not have left anything broken, but which will still be evaluated in the next few hours with the bowls stopped. The Czech defender, one of the best in recent outings, will try to recover for Friday evening in the fundamental match against Venezia from which Spezia seeks the last points for mathematical salvation.
The one who will certainly be absent is Nikolaou, who received a yellow card at Marulla which ends his regular championship early. Everyone’s hope is that the Greek can already feel like he’s on holiday, otherwise he would be back for any play-outs that will be played on 16 and 23 May. For Spezia-Venezia, therefore, the young Bertola warms up, who entered yesterday’s match well and who D’Angelo seems to prefer at this stage to Tanco and Gelashvili. Muhl, on the other hand, has been in the pits for some time.
In any case, Wisniewski will not be risked, not even in a possible survival play-off. The Polish giant has been training with his teammates for some time, but after about more than nine months of stopping it is practically impossible to allow him to reach a decent state of form. For him there could at most be remnants of the match only in the event of a largely positive score, a sort of welcome back catwalk which, however, is difficult to imagine today.
Defense therefore entrusted to Hristov, who has definitively consolidated his role as leader of the department in this second part of the championship. Same role that he managed to carve out for himself in Venice a year ago, when he went on loan to the lagoon players in January and proved to be fundamental for the rebirth of the Venetians who reached the play offs.
