In the end, the Imola team really set the trap at Carpi, stopping the league leaders and ruining a party that was now certain, and with over 600 guests, all of whom arrived at the Galli from Emilia.
Champagne chilled and still closed in the fridge for Serpini and his team, who will be able to uncork it already on Sunday in the other match-point, at the Cabassi against Certaldo, something that Mr. D’Amore is also certain of.
“They have shown that they are the strongest in the group and they will do it again next week,” says the coach. The rossoblù coach then said he was satisfied with the good performance his team put up against the top team.
“We have wanted to get back to scoring points at home for a long time and give joy to our fans, we succeeded and we are particularly pleased. It was not trivial to draw with the league leaders, and to be able to do it with a team full of young players of further value to this result. At the start, we were in the field with six overachievers, one 2007 and two 2004, two 2005 and two 2006. It is our policy, but this does not mean, as also demonstrated against Carpi, that we are inferior to the others”.
A careful match, played in a serious manner, despite the group having no real and concrete objectives to achieve in this final rush, other than saving face after the recent stops. In the 90th minute, what D’Amore had asked the day before, that is to leave the pitch with his head held high, came true.
“Sometimes football is really strange. We were coming off three defeats that we didn’t deserve at all and this time, however, despite suffering much more, against a team of enormous quality and superior to us, we managed to pick up a point. But this sport Is this the case and the verdicts of the pitch must always be accepted. Is there a possible penalty for Imola? I have never commented on a single episode this year, and I don’t intend to do so this time either.”
Next stop at the Benelli in Ravenna, the last of the championship, with the Giallorossi who, having returned to -2 from Carpi after the success against Borgo San Donnino, will have the obligation to win and hope for a misstep from the Emilians. But this time too, there will always be Imola.
