Lecco overwhelmed with a brace from Moncini and goals from Bjarnason and Bianchi. Play offs reached with a day to spare. On Friday evening in Bari there is even the possibility of finishing in sixth place and having home advantage in the first round
Brescia. A year ago it was drama. One year later it is the hymn to joy. From the lowered heads, the silences, the fear, to the scenes of exultation. Brescia has recently overwhelmed Lecco and the group of players and coaches gather next to the bench to follow the final moments of Pisa-Sudtirol on a tablet. As soon as the Arena Garibaldi-Romeo Anconetani match ends, the celebration explodes. Not exaggerated, as is the custom of Maran and his players who are used to always raising the bar a little higher, but right, deserved, intense.
The scenery. With one match still to play, Brescia is already certain of competing in the Serie B play-offs. For the seventh time in the last sixteen years (promotion only came in 2010). A comeback that closely resembles that of Clotet 1, in 2021 in the midst of the second Covid wave, when the tour immediately ended with elimination in Cittadella. This time it might even go better. First of all because Brescia also has the possibility of improving their current eighth place. If it ended like this, they would play on Saturday 18 May in Catanzaro, a single match with the possibility for the Calabrians to get through the round with two results out of three (but in the event of a draw in the 90th minute there will be extra time, no penalties). Winning on Friday evening in Bari, against a desperate team, which in turn must get the three points to at least secure the playout, could also mean sixth place for Brescia if Palermo does not win in Bolzano against Sudtirol and Sampdoria does not he will make full loot in Catanzaro. Sixth place would make all the difference in the world because it would allow the Rondinelle to play the first play-off round at home, with the advantages mentioned above. And in any case in Bari we need to try to get a full result even just to finish seventh, we consider Catanzaro’s Palermo less annoying. Let’s say straight away, however, that even if everything were to end in the first round of the promotion race, a monument should be built for this coach and only applause should be reserved for these players. Everyone. Nobody excluded.
(Bianchi’s tap-in, which closed the accounts)
The match. The match against the derelict Lecco was little more than competitive training thanks to the attitude that Bisoli and his teammates showed. After just over a quarter of an hour the result was already in the freezer: great play by Dickmann on the right and goal by Bjarnason with a moving penalty, corner by Galazzi and header by Moncini for the 2-0. It was right to have made Cinderella understand that there was no time or way to transform the pumpkin into a carriage. Maran made the right choice once again, fielding Moncini despite the player having just returned from two weeks of training so to speak, due to that adductor which continues to act up. It’s right to take that risk, as well as give Bianchi some rest. In the second half another goal came from Moncio with a header on another assist from Galazzi and in the final also Bianchi’s tap-in goal in addition to the painless goal from Inglese. Then it was a party. But measured. Because the best is perhaps yet to come. Because this team has in its DNA the desire to never be satisfied and this is why it has made thousands of blue and white fans fall in love with it, even the most disappointed by a deep wound like the one from a year ago.
(The Brescia players at the end of the match as they all wait together for the final of Pisa-Sudtirol to then unleash the party)
