Last stop. After an 8 month long run, theAvellino Of Patience is preparing to experience the last round of the regular season. Tomorrow, Saturday 27 April, at 6.30pm, at “Partenio-Lombardi” will arrive Crotone Of Zauli in a match which, in addition to closing the regular season, will offer significant insights into the future path of the Wolves. Up for grabs, in fact, in the remote duel with the BeneventoThere is the second place. A objective which the green-and-whites cannot and do not want to miss, by virtue of the important advantage it brings playoff perspective.
Towards Avellino-Crotone
Despite the knockout with the Taranto has caused some cracks to resurface, the green-and-white team approaches tomorrow’s match with the confidence and energy needed to try to reach their goal. The challenge with the rossoblù cannot in fact erase the path undertaken by post-Giuglianowhich he brought Patierno and companions to reopen a discussion – the one relating precisely to second place – which seemed closed.
The convictions developed in that period will have to accompany the Wolves also in tomorrow’s challenge, starting from defensive solidity – in the 3 matches preceding the one at “Iacovone” only 1 goal had been conceded – and from extraordinary offensive effectiveness. By the eleventh of Patiencein order to avoid hysteria and complications, it will be of fundamental importance to take the lead, thus exploiting one’s own strengths and at the same time leveraging an Achilles’ heel of the opponents, who in 5 of the last 7 have been the first to go up.
However then also the Crotone is moved by a stimulus, namely the achievement of seventh place, theAvellino he will also have to try to win the race by exploiting the strength of the reasons. Motivations which, as mentioned, will have to do above all with i future plans of the wolf, destined to be significantly influenced by tomorrow’s result.
Second place, the “Partenio” and the enthusiasm factor
The race of “Partenio-Lombardi” will leave a legacy toAvellino The final placement in the rankings. Tied at 66 with the Beneventobut ahead by virtue of the advantage gained in the direct clashes, tomorrow the green and white eleven will essentially play the second place and, consequently, the possibility of directly accessing the Second Round of the National Phase of the playoffs, i.e. the quarter-finals. Winning would give the Wolves the certainty of reaching their goal; otherwise, however, we will have to look at the result of Catania-Benevento.
The 3 points would be the most serene solution to close the regular season also for two other reasons. The first is related to the discovery feeling with the home stadium, an important aspect from a post-season perspective. Beating the Crotonethe Wolves would extend their streak of consecutive home wins to 6 and they would thus enter the playoffs with a decidedly fearsome score in the eyes of their opponents.
The second factor is closer topsychological aspect. A moody team like the green and white team needs to feel on its wings the lightness of enthusiasm and the sweetness of trust: elements that only a good victory, complete with an objective achieved, can bring.
Cionek, like a derby
Leading the green and whites will be the usual set-up, with the now consolidated one 3-5-2. Among the pillars of the training chosen by Patience it will certainly figure Thiago Cionekwho has become the Wolf’s defensive leader over the last few weeks.
The Polish centre-back, of Brazilian origins, will experience tomorrow’s match with a particular emotional transport: given his past as captain of the Regginain fact, the challenge to Crotone it will be for him like a sort of derby.
This particular momentum could translate into a sort of advantage for Avellino, also in light of the defender’s “history”. If you analyze the numbers of Cionek against the Pythagoreans, in fact, the result is extraordinarily positive. In 11 challenges against the Crotonethe Wolves number 26 is out winner on 9 occasionsdoing 5 out of 5 in home games.
At the time of Modenathen, in the 2014-2015 season, on the occasion of the last home match of the regular season, Cionek he also scored, directing a match that ended 3-0 for the Canaries with a header.
These numbers and these positive memories, combined with the spirit of a former Reggina player, will have to accompany and influence the green and white central defender in tomorrow’s match. Like in a derbyto win a long-distance derby, the one with the Beneventoand give the wolf an extra edge towards the playoffs.
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