Luna park Sinigaglia: Cittadella takes the lead, then a fiery Lariana remuntada with goals from Verdi and Goldaniga. The duel for supremacy with Parma continues.
(COMO – our service – Luca Savarese) – Rain beating outside the Sinigaglia, creating light swirls above the lake. Inside, however, no doodles on the pitch. Como, slender and second in the rankings, cannot afford them, nor can Cittadella, tenth with 45 points and with a view to the playoffs.
Tough wrestling match without fear. Those who expected the foil must instead deal with the club. The Paduans made themselves more appreciated at the start of the match, where in front, number 11 Pittarello, went for all the balls with ardor. He wraps up his long hair, like Rolando Bianchi, so to speak.
Como finds no ideas. Gorini’s 3-man defense man-marks and doesn’t allow anyone to breathe. So Strefezza, Cutrone and Da Cunha, the forwards from Como, find no openings. When he finds one, Kastrati does well to nip, in the bud, the joy of Da Cunha’s low goal.
The second half began with pouring rain and with Patrick Cutrone forced to withdraw due to a shoulder problem. In his place, Simone Verdi (whom a lady, in the press gallery, not a journalist, but a Como fan, was calling for his presence on the pitch already at the start of the match, perhaps a relative of the talented boy born in Broni in the Pavia area?)
The former Turin, Naples and Verona player, time to enter, and here he unsheathes his left foot, a millimetric ball for Gabrielloni, who however does not take up the invitation.
Gabrielloni, from Jesi, loved by the home crowd and number 9 here since 2018, who becomes captain after Cutrone’s exit.
Cittadella, where Parma won promotion to Serie A in 2009 after their first relegation to Serie B in 2008, is a solid team, the coaches change, but their philosophy does not change, that of playing hard-fought football, capable of maintaining the category and to annoy the medium-high part of the ranking. After the years of Foscarini and Venturato, where the team even came close to landing in the top flight, now, with the guidance of Gorini, its tale continues, made up of lots of prose and a few poetic flourishes. And precisely with prose, he goes on to lead the 11th of Padua, today, dressed in yellow.
Filippo Maria Pittarello, born in 1996 and from Padua, puts on a great match fighter pure: not only does he arrive first in front on all the balls, but he proposes himself, but he goes away, but he runs with his head down and with his body backwards, like the pointers real, at breakneck speed. With a feint he enters the area and with his left foot, not strong, but precise and low, he beats Semper. The clock reached minute 71.
Not even time to celebrate for the guests and for Parma, who are directly interested in the outcome of this match, and Como finds the equalizer. Simone Verdi makes it clear why he has always been said to be a crack. Left-footed, malicious, short, who after touching the low post, enters the goal.
Sinigaglia explodes and Verdi slides to celebrate under the bench. Tough game, real game, good game.
Como tries them all. Fabregas, active on the bench and collaborator of Roberts and the latter, bring in three strikers, including Nsame, who with the Young Boys shirt, scored a goal against Juventus in the Champions League a few years ago.
Cittadella feels the pressing pressure of Como and suffers its own forsing fiery. The north, the cradle of home fans, accompanies Mister Roberts’ players, discarding their plays.
Mr. Cosso, from the Reggio Calabria section, grants five minutes of added time. At the end of these, in the 94th minute, Edoardo Goldaniga, Milanese who arrived on the lake in January, coming from Cagliari, understands, before the defenders of the City, which can make a ball clean dirty, coming from a corner, from the left. Touched short, Kastrati is beaten. Sinigaglia’s joy explodes beyond measure. And even the portion of the lake, which can be observed from the stands, to the left of the curve, seems to participate in this goal, in the closing credits, in the closing credits.
Goldaniga, the match winner and Verdi, throw the shirts to a swarm of children, who without hesitation, take advantage of the small piece of concrete that allows them to pass from the stadium seats to the sidelines.
“There were people crying at the end of the match, today we perhaps felt the match a little more where Cittadella put us in difficulty”. Yes, the difficulty, the one that tries to put Como against Parma, until the end, to go to Serie A with the first train, aka first place. It seems like the two centuries of May 5th, armed against each other. By the way, on May 5th, on the 5th here is another long-distance duel: Parma on the pitch at the Tardini in front of Cremonese and Como, in nearby Modena. Even if Manzoni, however, was from the other branch of Lake Como, the Lecco one. Luca Savarese
