«Present, excited and convinced that we can do it». Stephen Rossini cuts short on the motivations of Piacenza who dive into the last 180′ of the championship with the duty to score 6 points in two games and the hope that Caldiero leaves something behind in his team. «And this is the other aspect of the sprint – adds the coach – that is that we are not total masters of our destiny». The ranking is now well known: Caldiero 71, Piacenza 70, Desenzano 68 and if desired, even if further behind, Palazzolo could get back into the running at 67.
Right from here we start on the eve of Piacenza-Real Calepina (Garilli stadium, Sunday 3pm), not so much from the reasons – which are there, it couldn’t be otherwise – but from the analysis of the calendar. Piacenza faces a Real Calepina in full fight to avoid the playouts and then on May 5th they will have a Varesina side cut out of the games (perhaps even the playoffs), while Caldiero faces Ciserano and then Villa Valle, two teams that are already safe and not they have nothing more to ask of the championship.
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The focus is inevitably on our opponent’s opponents. «You make this reasoning, we don’t make it. I immediately told the team to think only about our path, because without a doubt we need the 6 points, then we will see how it goes on the other fields. I am convinced that Ciserano and Villa Valle will play their match against Caldiero but, I repeat, let’s not fall into these thoughts because on Sunday we have a Real Calepina team that plays with good ideas, has quality, is healthy and just last Sunday showed enormous difficulty the Caldiero. So I’d say there’s enough to think about us.”
Further passage on how we arrived at this situation: Piacenza certainly had the opportunity to be master of their own destiny twice in their hands by going to the top of the table, but the strong belief is that today’s second place be a child of the autumn period. «I can only talk about when I arrived on the bench: if I look at the average achieved by my team, at the moment in which I took it in hand, I can only applaud my boys because it is an average points that would keep us largely at first place with 16 wins in 25 games. After that of course, I could tell you that we made a mistake in the match with the Tritium on the return leg, or in Caldiero, if we had come away with a draw there the question would be different now. If I really have to tell you about a match, however, I’ll tell you the one against Folgore Caratese at Garilli: ahead 2-0 with the match in hand we were able to come back 2-2 in a quarter of an hour.”
From the field: Corradi is trying to recover at the last minute after his season was considered over, but it will only be decided at the last minute, while Recino has come down with the flu and here too the conditions will have to be assessed on Sunday morning. Marquez returns from disqualification but Gerbaudo is out and serves a one-match stoppage. Iob and Andreoli are always out.
Probable Piacenza formation (4-4-2) – Moro; Napoletano, Silva, Somma, Artioli; Zini, Tourè, Bachini, Bassanini; D’Agostino, Marquez. All: Rossini.
