Last of the regular season for Vicenza, already certain of third place and host of Alessandria who have long been relegated to D. The red and white coach, Stefano Vecchikeeps his guard up: “I would like to see a team that is still hungry, a team that still has an objective to achieve, then it doesn’t just depend on us, but we have to create the conditions so that the others lose something. We want to play a important game, maintain the positive streak and above all there will be room for someone who needs playing time and to demonstrate that they are capable of helping us for the playoffs, even if I already know this. I then expect them to be able to provide mental continuity above all, because then in the playoff we will play every three days and therefore we will have the opportunity and time to recover next week since we don’t play. So I hope to see those who perhaps played more support and support those who will play with enthusiasm because they have played less until today. This is not a useless match, but it is a match where we want to achieve a result and it will also help these guys to show me that they are good, some in some new role and some others, like Fantoni, that they are ready to do the job. his part”.
Vecchi takes stock of his adventure on the Venetian bench: “I think it went better than I expected, but I was very convinced that there were strong players and a strong team here, therefore I hoped to be able to do this. I was convinced that here there was the potential and the strong players to be able to do very well, then we made a truly important journey. Even in the matches in which we lost some points, in reality there were more matches where we deserved more points, so it is really an important path and that’s what we wanted. Now we have this match and we want to play it to the fullest, then comes the good part but this path gives us great confidence. Something that I wasn’t able to do? Surely not, there was a path of remarkable growth, an important growth path and I believe that the players are now all expressing themselves at their best or at least close to their top. What I hope will happen is what will happen from the play-offs onwards until the end, it’s there that we don’t want to have any kind of regrets and that we want to play them as a leading team, because our group shows that it can be a protagonist in the play-offs.”
Taranto’s appeal still hangs on the date of the promotion play-offs: “We don’t know, we’ll see, I hope that from last year we have learned to avoid these problems and we hope that the playoffs start normally. Surely if they were to be postponed, at that point there would be need to find a friendly match.”
