The football code provides no limits, especially if you are Monza and the ambition is dictated and bequeathed by Silvio Berlusconi. The ambition is always to try to obtain increasingly prestigious results, and so in Monza, which in Formula One is the Temple of speed, the next goal is 100 points in the first two seasons in Serie A. Raffaele Palladino (in photo) can also distract himself for a moment and take a look at his team’s speedometer: to go at one hundred an hour, an acceleration from 3 points is missing and finding the straight after 6 corners where the victory was missing, where the points won are only 3, but where control has never been lacking. Even on the curbs, see Lecce or Lazio with the swerve at the end to get back in the wake of their opponents in the standings. From Turin to the last draw against Tudor, between episodes and regrets, the bar of mood and belief in one’s own qualities has not lowered an inch. Not even that of the ranking: the left side is still reachable, winning in Florence would mean bringing the Viola closer, who in the last two seasons have also consolidated a European character, and trying to overcome Torino, who had started the season with ambitions from beyond the border that seem now destined not to come true.
The destiny in the hands of Monza is instead to leave behind all the teams of the same level. From Monza downwards, the Brianza team fell only in Empoli, on the only real blackout afternoon of the season. This is to be confirmed in the last home match against Frosinone, for which the club has called together its people by offering rather favorable rates and discounts. First there is Fiorentina in Florence, who in the first leg represented a bitter pill for how the defeat developed: an error in the now famous “building from below” and Beltran who thanks at the start and then asserts the advantage until the three whistles. The same price paid on Sunday in the points lost against a Lazio team beaten at least in the game, in the chances and in the statistics: a painful but calculated expense, because it is the result of ideas that the coach and players believe in and on which the work of an entire week is based . Believing in work and in one’s own means, even when the result does not reward: the best basis on which to start again to reach another intermediate finish line in Monza’s romantic, no longer surprising, path in Serie A.
