Lecce, with Monza another step towards achieving salvation

Monza gives, Monza takes away. After having provided endless joy over the years in the matches against Lecce, an Italian Cup won in 1976, a historic…

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The Monza gives, Monza takes away. After having provided endless joys over the years in the challenges encountered with the Leccean Italian Cup won in 1976, a historic promotion to Serie A achieved in 1985 and finally salvation in the top flight obtained in 2023, yesterday the Brianza team actually took something away from the Giallorossi with the 1-1 draw in the Cesarini area, on green of Via del Mare, after almost eight minutes of injury time granted by the referee Santoro of Messina. For heaven’s sake, in the end the draw is probably the result that best reflects the progress of a substantially balanced and emotionless match. The only regret that Lecce carries with them is having conceded the equalizer in the sixth minute of injury time, practically in the first action of the game following the Giallorossi’s celebrations for Nikola’s Eurogoal Krstovic. The Montenegrin, in the 92nd minute, brought down an entire stadium by scoring a fabulous goal, a terrifying right-footed shot from the edge of the box after an assist as usual Pierotti. In this circumstance, the talented Di Gregorio could not help but collect the ball from the bag. After about two minutes of celebrations, the match resumed with a long throw by Pablo Marì towards the Lecce area, where in the meantime numerous players from Brianza had arrived. In the aerial duel between D’Ambrosio and Venuti the former had the upper hand, the ball ended up on the wide arm of the Lecce defender and at that point the referee had no hesitation in pointing to the spot. To the amazement of the approximately 28 thousand spectators present in the stands. An icy shower served by one of the many exes in the field, Matteo Pessinawho wrong-footed Falcone from the spot, giving his team a draw.
It is almost superfluous to say that the victory would have allowed the Salento team to put a serious claim on staying in Serie A but instead a draw arrived which should not be thrown away at all. Indeed, the point gained against Palladino’s battleship is useful as it allows captain Blin and his teammates to maintain a decent margin of advantage over the third-to-last position in the league table with only four games left until the end of the championship. At the moment theUdinese of Fabio Cannavaro is third from last at -8 from Lecce and waiting to face Thiago Motta’s Bologna today, at three in the afternoon, who, with a victory, can catch Juventus in third place. The result seems obvious but surprises in Serie A are always the order of the day. However, for the calculations we will have to wait one or two more games, when the situation in the queue will be clearer.
Regardless of what Lecce’s rivals will be able to do in the race for salvation at the end of the season, it is right to underline the merits of Gotti’s team. Against Monza the Salento team obtained their fifth positive result in the last six days in which they only lost on the Milan pitch. And there’s more: after four clean sheets, yesterday Falcone fell only on the penalty converted by Pessina. Which was the only real shot made by the guests on target during the hundred minutes of play. The defensive phase therefore worked this time too and this gives us hope in view of the last four matches in which Lecce will face in order Cagliari (away, next Sunday at 12.30), Udinese and Atalanta (double consecutive match at Via del Mare) and Napoli (away).

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