Participation in the playoffs, tomorrow evening the Brescia will conclude the regular season by playing a very special match at the home of a Bari with water at his throat.
The Galletti are obliged to win to try to avoid direct relegation and play everything in the play outs (for the Apulians, at a disadvantage in the direct clashes with Spezia, direct salvation is now unattainable even taking into account all the possible favorable combinations). A very different eve, however, for the Rondinelle, who currently are octaves and that they could too leap into sixth positionbut they must hope for the simultaneous negative results of Palermo and Sampdoria, who will visit Sudtirol and Catanzaro respectively, both without particular stimuli on this last day.
Precisely this starting situation seems to push Maran’s team to turn its attention already to the playoffs, rather than to an uphill challenge in a San Nicola that promises to be “hot”. Even if certain calculations will have to be made only after the 90th minute (including injury time, of course), the blue and white team, barring last-minute overtaking, at this point seems destined to meet Catanzaro in the first round of the play-offs, leaving Palermo (who will have to try to maintain the favor of the field factor) and Sampdoria the task of facing each other in the other match.
It is necessary to reiterate that these are only hypotheses on paper, but which also seem to lead Mister Maran not to want to take risks specifically in terms of the playoffs. In fact, if there are no last-minute surprises, Brescia in Bari should not risk the players who are within a ban (Jallow, Paghera, Papetti and Cistana) and also the injured Moncini, who in recent days has continued to work separately, in all likelihood it will be preserved from further, possible traumas.
As for the other players currently at the center of attention, Fares and Fogliata will also remain in doubt until the end, while Mangraviti, who also trained for a long time separately, should constitute a completely new central defense pair in the company of Cartano, who will be making his debut this season. The next few hours will resolve the last reservations of Mister Maran, who wants to present Brescia in the best possible conditions for this longed-for return to the play offs. Bari, on the other hand, remains well focused on the anxieties of the present, as they continue to remain silent and press in recent days and are aware that they are faced with a final that they only have to win to continue to hope to remain in Serie B.
Probable lineups
Bari (4-3-3): Pissardo; Pucino (Dorval), Di Cesare, Vicari, Ricci; Lulic, Benali, Acampora; Sibili, Puscas, Nasti. All: Federico Giampaolo. Brescia (4-3-2-1): Lezzerini; Dickmann, Cartano, Mangraviti, Huard; Bisoli, Van De Looi (Bertagnoli), Besaggio; Bjarnason, Galazzi; Whites. All: Rolando Maran. The match will be played tomorrow, Friday 10 May, at 8.30pm, at the San Nicola Stadium in Bari and will be visible on Sky Sport and Dazn.
