“The thing that pleases me is that we too have to play for a result, therefore without calculations. And the match will be played against a team that wants to win. We have to play it, without making calculations and always play it as we have done, to win . Three perfect number? It continues to be my perfect number, the one I like the most. Now at this moment we have to think that there are 9 points up for grabs and the championship doesn’t end tomorrow, in Bari”: word from coach Fabio Pecchia, Parma coach who just yesterday – in the press conference anticipating today’s match – spoke like this.
The ducal team will be on the pitch at 6pm, but the Emilians’ football day will begin at 3pm, and it’s easy to say why. As well as understandable from the words of the trainer. Promotion to Serie A is at stakewhich would arrive two days earlier than the end of the regular season and after three years of cadence.
However, there are obviously first steps, and as Pecchia said, for the yellow-blues, the most important thing is to win. But victory might not be enough today, and this is where the 3pm matches come into play; the Emilians are at the top with 73, followed by Como on 68 and Venezia on 67. The non-victory of one of the aforementioned teams, playing against Cittadella and Catanzaro respectively, would be equivalent to the arithmetic promotion of Parma; if the Lombards and Venetians lost, even a draw would be fine at “San Nicola”. The antennas are very straight…
