The votes for the Tigers the day after Pro Sesto – Pro Patria 1 to 0. On the last day of the championship Pro Patria loses by a narrow margin, collecting the eighth goal conceded on a penalty kick by a Pro Sesto team that is increasingly a bête noire despite their relegation of the Milanese in D.
ROVIDA 5.5 – The season ends with yet another duel from the penalty spot (lost), the ninth whistled against Pro Patria, the eighth personal one. This time it is he who commits the decisive foul which will lead to the penalty converted by Florio with an exit (kamizake but inevitable) on Toci after the attacker had slipped away from Saporetti. It’s a shame, because in the first half he stood out with two good saves from diagonals from the home team.
BASHI 6.5 – First starter in the championship with safety already achieved. It’s true that the stakes are relative, as is the pressure, but his game is always alert and attentive, enriched by a couple of good readings that draw applause from the two buses of fans who arrived in Sesto San Giovanni. The feeling is that next year he will be able to play for his place and chances.
FLAVORS 5.5 – The expulsion in Alessandria and the mockery in Sesto San Giovanni: a season to forget for the defender to whom the blue and white fans must nevertheless give sincere thanks for having made up for Lombardoni’s long absence. Once again the mistake is fatal for the result, but if it hadn’t been for his sweep in the first half the match risked being compromised well before the penalty.
MORETTI 6 – He tried in every way to keep the match and Pro Patria’s playoff hopes alive, both by containing the breaks of a furious Toci and by heading home the equalizer, which however was canceled out by Lovison for offside. At the end of the matches he witnesses the relegation of his former team, who had not believed in him too much unlike the bustocchi.
Pro Patria ends the season with a defeat: Pro Sesto wins on penalty but is relegated to D
C. RENAULT 6- – For the first time in the season the two Renault twins are lined up as starters on the tiger flanks. As in the last home match (defeat against Virtus), Christophe does not fully exploit the chance of ownership on the right wing and, in the waiting match for Pro Patria, he allows ample space to his opponents without ever going beyond midfield. However, he did well to save on the line and prevent the two-nil shot. Final decline for him after the good support given when his brother was in the infirmary.
NEEDLES 6.5 – Many tackles won in midfield, an area of the pitch where he manages to contain the midfielders well and Poli, a former Inter and Milan player who has graced more prestigious stages than Breda or Speroni. A few minutes after his substitution due to injury, Pro Patria collected the penalty that was worth the game, even if it must be said that in the dynamics of the action the midfield had been overtaken by a long throw from Toninelli.
from 55′ MALLAMO 6 – He enters perhaps a little coldly but shows himself ready for the long battle in midfield, the setting for the end of the match, or rather for the continuous fragmentations of the game. Better when he has to lead forward than when he is called upon to set up behind midfield. Pro Sesto is breathing down his neck and sometimes leads him to make mistakes, nothing fatal.
BERTONI 6 – A decent hour of play in which the team holds up well to the enveloping maneuver of Pro Sesto, who prefers to attack via lateral routes, with the support of the midfielders at the moment of conclusion. The playmaker is however useful in quickly turning the ball over the pitch and sending his teammates directly towards goal, who waste their chances. After the disadvantage the game changes and his game plan becomes less and less successful until the substitution.
from 79′ NICCO SV – You never like losing, in the few minutes on the pitch he makes it clear, even if he will be forced to raise the flag. Characteristic.
G. RENAULT 6 – The rest shift for the Ndrecka scooter brings the shift of the “G.” on the left-handed lane, an area of the pitch where Pro Patria is usually used to hurting also thanks to the “combos” with Pitou, absent at Breda. Compared to the norm, Guillaume instead limits himself to a few lunges from his side, still finding a nice conclusion from outside: the shot is very powerful but is saved in a dive by Bagheria. Half successful adaptation. Perhaps (and we repeat perhaps) to make the most of the offensive potential, the twins should have been reversed, who knows if there will be an opportunity in the future.
from 79′ GHIOLDI SV – Last 10 minutes with the usual competition shown in the clips that his physique makes available to him at the moment. He tries once again from outside, but without hitting the target. In his own way, the fact that the last goal of the season bears his signature is a good sign for the future.
Football, Serie C: Pro Sesto – Pro Patria live
CITTERIO 5.5 – Second consecutive start for him and a slightly better performance than the Speroni match in Busto Arsizio. Pro Patria appears with few flares, almost always preferring to serve Castelli’s bomber, the Como player however tries with a shot from outside the area that goes high over the crossbar.
from 66′ STANZANI 6 – Although at times he brings that verve and concreteness in the last pass that Pro Patria had lacked in the first half when the result was still open. As the minutes passed, however, Pro Sesto continually broke the rhythm and prevented them from playing every ball in order to defend a Pyrrhic victory in vain. And his entry is thus, in an increasingly corrosive way, cancelled.
CURATOLO 5.5 – More involved in the game than his linemate, but more hasty and imprecise in managing the ball. With a red pencil (not blue) the conduct of a transition reached the edge of the area, when he focuses towards Castelli and tries a low shot blocked from the end. An understandable choice, however, because the attacker is always “justified” by his desire to score, especially when he is the only one in the squad who has not signed up for the season.
from 66′ PARKER 5.5 – Final with the usual desire to fight, once again the match has already taken a turn in which it is very difficult to fit in and become the protagonist.
CASTLES 5.5 – He is unable to capitalize on the opportunities at his feet in the best possible way: nothing sensational compared to what happened last week, but he will certainly have some regrets for not having hit the target at the time of the shot. Always good at creating opportunities.
ALL. COLOMBO 5.5 – The coach is always sincere and will be the first to admit that once under Pro Patria he will lose the key to the problem (the motivations will definitively sink in with Trento’s goal which puts a tombstone on the playoffs). The end of the season is insipid: the impression given between January and February was good, minus the defensive lightness proposed in the spring when salvation was de facto in the safe for a couple of weeks. De jure just last week.
Colombo: “In confusion after the penalty, when the game changed. Happy for Bashi”
