Never like this year, the difference between a negative season and a sensational one is very subtle, like the difference between Brescia, currently eighth and Viali’s Cosenza, the B team of the moment together with Como. A week away from the final clash on Lario, which could mean everything or nothing depending on the developments next Sunday.
Complicated, late, crazy, the rossoblù chase towards a play off that can be achieved sooner and better. But not to be discarded like a poisoned chocolate with two days to go.
If the prospect of a place in the sun had become almost usual during the first days of Caserta’s management (especially after the prestigious success in Palermo), the play-off zone gradually became a chimera, for a team prisoner of tactical cages and experiments not very convincing (apart from the first attacking midfielder Voca), and in a continuous metamorphosis of results: 5 useful results in 6 matches before the fatal combination 110-Derby, then 2 months without any victories.
And now? Now that everything is clearer, that the city has rallied around the Tutino boys, asking, even along its streets, for Gennaro’s confirmation (to interpret those tears at the end of the match!), that the eleven to be fielded is written in stone , that even the old guard (D’Orazio) is roaring back with goals and assists and the showcase of Calo’ and Forte is shining again, the fundamental ingredient for the success of yet another undertaking seems to be missing: time.
Only two days, six points, at least three-four to recover in Samp and Brescia, who are now struggling to survive with draws and difficult victories, but who tenaciously preserve the treasure of direct clashes (and there the regrets increase tenfold) .
Returning to the successful salvation of Ascoli, the Wolves continue to progress in terms of defensive stability, willingly and with more maturity accepting even those changes in intensity that often lead aggressive opponents like Ascoli to become dangerous.
Suffering is a trademark, as we know, but once again the absences did not upset the group. And even Marson’s return after time immemorial, emotion aside, was well cushioned by his teammates who constantly offered a shoulder to the Friulian pipelet.
Among other things, demonstrating the newfound solidity, there is the data that sees the Wolves maintain for the first time this season a narrow lead gained in the first half. They had tried many, many times, without ever succeeding. With these credentials, hoping for the most optimistic forecast, which sees the Wolves close on 51 points, is not fantasy football.
However, the considerations on the Wolves’ optimality stop here, because then there is the rest of the game to play, the one that will depend exclusively on the other fields.
If yesterday afternoon’s results from Piacenza and Lecco seem to have clipped the wings of real play-off prospects, a couple of options still remain. Which Gennaro’s tears of love and the group factor require us to follow.
The first takes you to Bari, home to a team desperately looking for points, and which on the final day will welcome a Brescia team that is now seasoned only for draws but will probably have taken the 3 points in the Lombard “derbyno” against Lecco. An unlikely option, because Bisoli’s swallows (yesterday 2 goals) will not be able to be satisfied with scoring 2 points and will have to get at least 4, if not 6, having to also watch their backs from Reggiana and SudTirol who, barring surprises, do not seem to have on their side the calendar.
Another tortuous road, but paradoxically practicable, is the one that would lead to none other than Catanzaro, where Samp, who in the meantime must not have beaten Reggiana at home, will be hunting for at least one point to take cover.
If this does not happen, it could be Catanzaro who “chooses” (if they fail to reach fourth place) which team to face as a possible fifth-place finisher, opening the playoff doors to one of the outsiders.
In short, a fascinating risk that Cosenza will look at for another 72 hours, with that crazy lightness typical of the wingman ready to take a well-deserved rest after having sprinted to safety, and yet always on the pedals.
72 hours left, immersed in a temporal limbo that from the satisfaction of the reconfirmation in Serie B will lead to the challenge against a Spezia team that is clearly improving and in need of points.
Whatever path it takes, the team deserves to be accompanied towards its destiny with the applause that those tears of love and the state of healthy madness proclaimed by Viali deserve.
And which Cosenza, and with it the Cosenza to come, will have to know how to valorise. Immediately.
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