The days pass quickly and those of this Serie B championship are certainly no exception, where the Grigiorossi fans find themselves leafing through the last petals of a slightly wilted daisy. No drama, but certainly a lot of disappointment for the abrupt spring awakening, which shattered the dreams of a direct promotion that seemed definitely within reach.
Venice represents this point of the championship, a crucial stage to get back on the right path that will lead to the play offs.
The 35th day of the championship which will be played between tomorrow and Saturday, speaking of the top areas of the table, will not issue any verdict, but will certainly represent a crucial point in understanding which exits the protagonists of this championship will take.
First of these is Pecchia’s Parma, which after having dominated far and wide this championship, finds itself having to face a final stretch which from a straight downhill stretch has turned into a slight climb with a couple of dangerous hairpin bends, which the final victory of the championship is in serious discussion, certainly not a promotion, which however would not even come with a possible victory for the grey-reds in Venice.
Como runs behind him. In the last 5 days, after the defeat at Zini, which seemed to have outlined very different destinies for the protagonists of the match, they have collected 5 consecutive victories scoring 14 goals. Hats off to the team and to a company that, especially in the winter market, has been able to score very important goals to complete an already good level of staff. Both Parma and Como have a fairly quiet end to the season and the ducals’ next two matches before the match against Cremonese at the Tardini, in addition to guaranteeing arithmetic promotion, could increase the 3-point advantage over the second in the standings.
Como believes in it and they have excellent reasons given this championship finale in which they are playing the role of steamroller. Morale certainly makes the difference, a goal that is well within reach, good physical fitness and an attack that sparks. The arrival of Strefezza completed a department, made up of Cutrone, Gabrielloni and Da Cunha, shamelessly front-wheel drive.
Returning to tomorrow evening’s match in a near sold-out Penzo stadium, Venezia and Cremonese will face each other in what could become ‘the mother match’ of this championship: for the lagoon players, in addition to remaining in contention for direct promotion, it could almost definitively securing a third position which, from a play-off perspective, would mean bringing home not only the direct semi-final but also the field factor.
For Stroppa’s Cremonese, grappling with an important crisis of identity (and results) which has arisen due to the worsening of dormant (but not too much) problems such as the lack of capacity achieved and stale tactical solutions, the match against the lagoon players represents a fundamental crossroads to understand what this team wants to do ‘when it grows up’, so as not to throw away a championship which nevertheless took them to the play offs and which still offers a concrete possibility of achieving the objective.
The Grigiorossi will have to rediscover character, determination, hunger and compactness, Stroppa will have to focus on the hard core of the team: Sernicola, Castagnetti, Zanimacchia, Bianchetti and Ravanelli, but above all (and for obvious reasons) on his striker Coda, who in the last few matches has been left on the fringes of the starting lineup, without actually realizing any benefit.
Cremonese must win and convince and this can only be done through goals, and unfortunately not many people in this team know how to score goals, least of all the latest arrivals Johnsen and Falletti, who will have their work cut out for them. make the club (especially the former) think again about the investment and the fans about the quality and character to be put on the pitch.
As a backdrop, the ‘usual rumors’ of those who insinuate that the company (or the team depending on the versions) ‘does not want to move up’ and news of the last few hours, that of a lack of financial agreement on the prize which would yield a possible promotion, but here we remain in the field of inferences rather than suppositions, which generate more annoyances than doubts.
It goes without saying that all these rumors could be clarified and swept away not so much by Stroppa who works as a coach and now already has his work cut out for him, but by the club, not so much to clarify an objective that is well clear, but to unite the environment (club, team, fans), to make its presence felt and inspire an exemplary fan base, in view of a season finale where everyone’s contribution and support will be needed. Very little would be enough.
