Lfa Reggio Calabria, a derby at the Macrì with important points up for grabs especially for the home team

Palumbo from Bari is the referee designated to direct the match between Locri and Reggina. It is a match full of meanings as well as expectations. The same colours, the metropolitan city they belong to, the bond between the Locride sportsmen and the local first team are just some aspects of the match.

If Reggina hasn’t been going through a good footballing moment for some timethis does not cancel the centralizing effect historically carried out, becoming a great breeding ground for promising young athletes and therefore a dream to pursue. Now Reggina, expected in Locri in a friendly since Pippo Inzaghi’s time, he disembarks at Macrì with a certain wind in his sails given the full play off zone guaranteed by seventeen victories plus seven other useful results, worth one point each. The last three victories were the reaction to the defeat suffered in the other regional clash, the one against Vibonese. It should be exactly this, as things stand in terms of ranking order, the playoff opponent. To find out we will have to reach the thirty-eighth day and there are four to go, including the fateful one.

Reggina will not have any stops while Locri will stop one round early but, in any case, the one against Trocini’s boys is the last home match, at least as far as the regular phase is concerned. The play-out should not be discussed, also because to do so we would need an eight-point gap with the team occupying the next position. This, i.e. San Luca, could also become the team that precedes it, in the event of being overtaken, but this would only change the venue for the play out. THE

Locri missed an away match, the last one, difficult but important both for morale and for the ranking. The heavy defeat painted a different profile compared to the potential of Panarello’s team. The coach, meanwhile, is preparing to conclude a complicated year but with an intense wealth of experience and emotion for a category which, wherever you live in the rankings, is a completely different story compared to the regional championship.