Lamberto Zauli expected more. Because that winking seventh place required a surplus that Crotone was unable to produce. He tried, but the obstacle was evidently difficult to overcome, despite the willing attempt to seek that blitz which remained only in the intentions. Picerno has emerged from the playoff deck, and now the entire concentration shifts to the one-off match scheduled in Basilicata.
“It’s sad that we weren’t able to get seventh place – analyzes Zauli – we hoped to get there by winning at . We tried, but the result was a match with little emotion on both fronts and few opportunities in general. At the end they pushed harder and found the goal from a penalty, otherwise a draw would have resulted which would have better reflected the product of the match. But at that point little changed for us since we needed the victory for seventh place. We certainly could have done better in the offensive phase, but we found it difficult to create danger, as did they too despite facing two of the best attacks in the championship. For everything else I would say it was good, the team held its own and was only punished towards the end.”
Picerno will therefore be the opponent left out of the grid: “Now we know our opponent – sighs Zauli – and against them we will try to play an important match knowing that we will only need the victory. Picerno is one of the teams that plays better, the difficulty will be high as it normally is at this point of the season. But we will have to get there aware of our qualities and knowledge, which we demonstrated only at times in the second half of the season. And how I tried to make the boys understand on Saturday too.”
“I hope that our playoff journey is as long as possible – comments the coach – and we will try to push hard straight away trying to recover what we lost during the regular season”.
