CREMONA – Cremo, I think positive. Even now that second place is gone for everyone except arithmetic, even now that we will certainly have to sit at the green table of the roulette called playoffs, I think positive, and I think I’m right. No, it’s not that I have a speech impediment or that I’m desperately trying to sound refined. I Penzo is positive because at the Penzo stadium in Sant’Elena a sort of preview of the playoffs is being played, or rather of what if football has a logic – but don’t count on it too much – will be the final of the playoffsthe one that will award the third ticket to the Promised Land on June 2nd.
There’s no point in making a tragedy if second place ran away with someone else. It’s true that the grey-red diary is full of wasted opportunities, but is it really that different to go to Serie A in June instead of May? Obviously not, so let’s look ahead. And first of all to the Penzo party. At the moment the grey-red prognosis is marked by the proverbial cautious optimism. Cremo is fourth, barring complications. Stroppa’s team avoided a big complication by drawing in Catanzaro; and now they want to create a nice complication at Venezia, with an away victory – after all the home specialty – which brings them close to Vanoli’s team.
Even a draw would have its own specific weight, also determined by the result of Catanzaro who plays in Pisa at the same time. The other side of the match is that of Venezia, which in turn tries to win to shorten the gap from Como, which plays the most slippery match of its championship finale on Saturday in Genoa, but will also have to be careful not to lose so as not to put the number one seed in the playoff table back on the table. In short, it started without a script already written. Venezia is a boxer who fights with low guard, aiming to knock out his opponent even at the risk of taking some painful blows in the match himself. As happened to her at Zini.
Cremo will not be able to count on the ex’s law, given that Dennis Johnsen was sent to the stand by the judge. Partly because of the importance of the match, but even more so because the time for the matches that cannot be missed is approaching, the grey-red fans wait with galloping impatience for Franco Vazquez give the team performances at the height of its class. So far, there’s no point in beating around the bush, his performance is the black hole of the season. He must be the extra man on the team, not the least man. He didn’t make a silent scene just once, in Cittadella. Let’s hope that breathing the air of the Veneto again wakes up his sleeping genius. The team needs him, as well as finding the goals of Leader Maximus. Because, strange to say for a team that has casually alternated three goalkeepers, the problem is scoring goals. And the medicine is to speed up the game, starting with Venice. Cremo, I think positive, please agree with me.
