Michele Criscitiellodirector of Sportitalia, during the SportitaliaMercato program broadcast yesterday, highlighted how the fight for survival has seen cross-fertilization in the last few days between clubs on good terms: “The fight for salvation is the most fun, because there is great chaos. The If Sassuolo doesn’t score points with Inter, I think we can say goodbye to him now. And for the first time in many years, Udinese, who have 29 points, would be in Serie B at the moment, have to play against Napoli and then. has three direct clashes, Lecce, Empoli and Frosinone.
The arbiter of salvation is Inter, because if Inter wins, Inter takes points away from Sassuolo, Frosinone and Verona. Sassuolo is almost done for. But on the last day Sassuolo faces Lecce who could almost be safe. Udinese has Napoli, historically a friendly club, they have done a lot of business together. We are still in Italy. De Laurentiis has bought more players from Udinese than around the world, so I believe that good relations with four matchdays to go have always been there… If Lecce gets a point in Cagliari, then there’s Lecce- Udinese and relations are good there too. Napoli is much stronger than Udinese, it seems clear enough to me, but…
In recent years compared to many years have more positively surprising games? Because there are many more foreigners in Italy and they don’t understand these things. Sassuolo is a bad team, without Berardi they are a Serie B team. For me, Cagliari-Lecce is a written draw. A 0-0 must be a 1-1, not because we are talking about combined matches, but it is obvious, it serves me and it serves you. Cagliari and Lecce can pseudo-save themselves with a 0-0 or 1-1. Cagliari has Lecce, Milan, Sassuolo and Fiorentina, come on… Milan finished, Sassuolo finished second to last and Fiorentina finished last. This is Cagliari’s championship.
Cagliari-Lecce X sure, Under or no-goal. He scores 1 point against Lecce, then we’ll see what happens with Milan, with Sassuolo he scores 3 and with Fiorentina he scores 1/3. Cagliari-Lecce is played after Sassuolo-Inter, so they already know what the result in Reggio Emilia will be. If Sassuolo-Inter tomorrow is 1, let’s go back to my main reasoning. I repeat: if Sassuolo doesn’t win against Inter, Cagliari-Lecce, and there’s nothing sensational about it, it’s a written draw. But not because they don’t have to play, because it’s a clear interest. Cagliari scores 1 very precious point and Lecce is finished at that point.
With four days to go, a different championship is being played, the reasoning championship is also being played. There’s nothing wrong, if I have to take stock and you have to take stock, it doesn’t mean combine football, what a shame, what disgusting. It’s simple, I have to gamble my footballing life, you’re gambling your life, why do we have to kill ourselves? We have to go to war for what if we have to save ourselves? If they are 1-1, in the end they start not attacking and playing a different game, ball to one side, back, on the wing and I don’t even get close. Good faith is a given.
The calendar was crazy, it put all these teams in the fight for survival, Inter who won the Scudetto in the derby against Milan and Sassuolo who can be relegated, not mathematically but in fact, against Inter , with Carnevali being the best man at Marotta’s wedding, or vice versa, they are brothers, and Marotta has to send Carnevali to Serie B, we are in total madness. We know that Beppe and Giovanni are brothers, let’s not joke. We’re not saying anything bad, we all have friendships and we all have professional situations. But who doesn’t know that Marotta and Carnevali are brothers, in football and otherwise? We all know it. Marotta, despite himself, as the reigning Italian Champion, must send his brother to Serie B.”
Now, following the match between the “Marotta-Carnevali brothers” (as Criscitiello defined them) which ended with Sassuolo’s 1-0 victory over Italian champions Inter, the director of Sportitalia has returned to the topic by writing on X: “In the last 24 hours I have taken insults for the transmission of last night: whoever sees Sportitalia the games can” read “before. With the victory of Sassuolo, now, Udinese is forced to win with his friend Aurelio de Laurentiis. The point against Lecce may no longer be enough for Cagliari.”
