Ascoli will not face a Pisa team already on holiday on Friday evening (8.30pm). If the owner Massimo Pulcinelli, in the hours following the match in Palermo, had invited Feralpisalò and Brescia to do their duty also in the last round of the championship, on the other hand there were those who pointed out to the number one in Corso Vittorio the having forgotten that Aquilani’s Nerazzurri, in the same way, will try to honor their championship until the end. These are the words expressed via social media by the owner at the end of the match with the Sicilians: “Congratulations to all the boys, great Fabrizio Caligara. Destiny is above all in our hands, hoping for the last match at home. May Brescia and Feralpisalò do their , unlike Catanzaro and Cittadella today…”. And instead Ascoli will not be masters of their future at all, as long as they take for granted the possibility of achieving a victory which is not so obvious after all.
There will be no gifts and in order to try to grab at least one of the two places for the play-offs, Picchio will absolutely have to beat the Nerazzurri, but the three points may unfortunately not be enough at all.
In fact, at the same time as the success, there will also have to be a defeat or, at most, a draw for Bari.
Even if the Apulians manage to obtain all that is at stake, there will be nothing left for Ascoli to do and they will face inevitable direct relegation. Football, as it has always shown us, is made up of moments. And in these last hours, instead of remaining silent in a very delicate phase where we can only respond with facts, we have returned to exasperating the tone, further exacerbating the clear and irreparable fracture that has emerged between the square and society.
After the not very useful draw in Palermo (2-2) the Bianconeri came even closer to hell 9 years after the last great disappointment suffered. It was the 2012-13 season when the team then led by Silva failed to avoid the bitter end on the last day. On this occasion everything happened at Tombolato in the final match with Cittadella. Here the Bianconeri were unable to avoid a 1-0 defeat which came in the 96th minute with a goal scored by Baselli.
Ascoli thus closed on 41 points, the same level that the current team led by Carrera could reach, and failed to achieve a playout placement. The play-offs were not played given the 6-point difference that was created between fourth-last Vicenza (42), which was also directly relegated, and fifth-last Lanciano (48). Yesterday too, the Bianconeri continued their preparations in view of the final match. In the meantime, midfielder Di Tacchio has ended up on a booking, but that matters little now.
Massimiliano Mariotti
