After the 4-0 win over Lecco and with only three games remaining in the regular season of the Serie B championship, Parma is firmly at the top of the cadet tournament rankings – from the first day to today – with 73 points scored in 35 days, the result of 21 wins, 10 draws and only 4 defeats. Despite Venezia’s relentless race in third place, the Crusaders can still boast a margin of 6 points ahead of the lagoon players and with now only 9 points available between now and the end of the calendar it is now possible and realistic to develop the most plausible calculations respect the date in which the ducal eleven will be able to definitively achieve the objective of direct promotion authenticated by the chrism of arithmetic. All things considered – and assuming that the orange-and-greens manage to achieve an en-plein of successes in the next matches – the yellow-blue collective will only need to win just one victory in the three remaining matches in order to guarantee mathematical access to the highest national competition. However, the Crociati will have the burden of maintaining a better overall goal difference than that of the team led by coach Paolo Vanoli (currently +7 in favor of the Crociati) in the event of a tie, given the overall balance in the two clashes direct tickets consumed during the outward and return rounds.
If we wanted to determine instead How many points would Parma need to become Serie B champions? and assuming that Como – i.e. second in the class – manages to score all 9 points available to them in the remaining championship matches, the Crociati, who currently have a 5-point gap over the Como players, they should achieve at least one victory and one draw in the three scheduled matches, between the away games in Bari and Reggio Emilia and the home match against Cremonese. In this case, if the two teams finished on equal points at the top of the standings, the Ducal team would come out on top, given the advantage gained in the direct clashes.
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