Hold on desperately to the pride of Nasti who scores and celebrates as a former player in Cosenza without much hypocrisy before a sensational surrender by his team. The defeat of Bari at San Vito-Marulla it amplifies Cosenza’s feat who achieved salvation first-hand by adding three more platinum points to the already golden ones obtained against Reggiana in the previous round. But it also certifies that the unfortunate year of the Apulians could really end in the worst way that no one had dared to imagine and no one knows how to avoid. One step away from Serie C and with the leaders of Pecchia at the gates in the midweek round heading towards Serie A, there is little to be happy about, regardless. On the other hand, if you get to the fourth coach in the same tournament and you can’t get a spider out of the hole, the only escape route from the announced disaster is precisely in the pride that this team also tried to show at times in Cosenza. Nasti succeeded with that goal which also temporarily put Giampaolo’s team back in the game, still fragile at the dawn of the match and then forced to reveal themselves before finally sinking in the worst defeat of this troubled season.
Bari, not the moment
Unable to win since 17 February (1-0 against Feralpi), the Galletti extended their long negative streak to 10 consecutive games and we have to go back to 2007-2008 to find a worse series in the league, then with 11 days without success (8 draws and 3 knockouts). Having reached the bottom of the barrel and light years away from the final for Serie A lost in Cagliari’s last assault, which is also the basis of today’s disasters, now Bari has nothing left to lose and Ascoli’s victory in Terni like the draw Spezia in Brescia still leaves the playout perimeter just one point higher. But Nasti’s pride should be multiplied, one of the few things to be saved in the unfortunate Calabrian afternoon in order to at least hope for a breakthrough with a calendar that will see Di Cesare and his teammates then face Cittadella away and Brescia at home. First, however, there is Parma who are marching at a high pace towards direct promotion and have already liquidated Lecco by sending them back from where they surprisingly arrived just a year ago. In short, Bari needs a company. But this indecipherable championship never ends and it is always time to fight.
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