This Sunday at 3pm penultimate day: Lecco arrives already relegated (with shocking numbers) and if Bisoli and his teammates get the three points, without Sudtirol and Reggiana winning, the playoffs would already be certain. Moncini immediately or during the race?
Brescia. It’s easy to say “well now the last team in the table arrives, already relegated and the three points are guaranteed”. Football, sport, doesn’t go like that. Or rather: sometimes yes, sometimes no. And it is precisely when you take something for granted that the incredible and even the irreparable happens.
Watch out for Lecco. From Roma-Lecce in 1986 to Brescia-Latina in 2016 we could review many other examples of teams already relegated, or with no apparent motivation, who are going to break the eggs in the basket. The same as Brescia when they won in Pisa in 2009… So it’s better not to think about the classic walk of health for the match that awaits the Rondinelle this Sunday at 3pm at Rigamonti against a Lecco team that has nothing more to ask for and will start again from Serie C. Useless though pretend nothing happened or hide the numbers that nail this team: they have won less than anyone else (6 times, 2 away: in Pisa and Palermo), they have lost like no other (22 games), they have the worst attack (32 goals) and the worst defense (67) and in the last seventeen games they have only obtained the three points all together once.
The themes of the match. Brescia returned to scoring in the derby after 285 minutes (excluding recoveries) of abstinence and did so with a brace from the usual Bisoli (let’s see how long the League will take to award the second goal to the captain too…), there’s no need to be surprised considering the absences that Maran continues to have in attack and the well-known sterility of Bianchi, a very precious player for goodness sake, but after three years we can say that he is not exactly a stocker. The Trentino coach has decided to bring Moncini back to the squad, but one wonders how useful it is to risk him in a match that can be won even without him. And with three points, and the failures of Suditirol in Pisa and Reggiana in Genoa, the play offs would be a certainty. The trip to Bari will still have value (perhaps even just to try to improve the position in the play-off grid) then there will be the second phase, perhaps it is the case not to immediately risk the last remaining centre-forward, if anything by letting him enter the match in progress.
(In the first leg Brescia won 2-0 with goals from Borrelli and Bianchi)
Probable lineups. The feeling is that Maran can return to 4-3-2-1 with the return of Bjarnason to the starting eleven and the Papetti-Mangraviti ballot to pair in the center with Cistana.
BRESCIA (4-3-2-1) Lezzerini; Dickmann, Cistana, Papetti (Mangraviti), Jallow; Bisoli, Paghera, Bertagnoli; Bjarnason, Galazzi; Whites.
Malgrati will propose his 4-3-3, which can become 4-1-4-1 with Degli Innocenti between the defense and midfield lines and Novakovich as the sole striker, in which Lemmens takes the place of the suspended, eternal Lepore.
LECCO (4-3-3): Melgrati; Lemmens, Bianconi, Celjak, Caporale; Ionita, Of the Innocents, Sersanti; Parisians, Novakovich, Buso.
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