It will be there Triestina to challenge the Benevento tomorrow night. From the urn Happy Evacuo, paired with the Samnites, he drew the Halberds, fourth in group A with 66 points behind Mantua, Padua and Vicenza. The first leg will be played tomorrow evening at 9pm «Nereo Rocco» (live free-to-air on Rai Sport and for subscribers on Sky and NowTv), the return to «Ciro Vigorito» Saturday 18th at 8.30pm.
As there are no direct flights from Naplesthe Cilento club manager has chosen Rome as an intermediate stop: the Giallorossi group left yesterday around 5pm from the stadium with the club bus to move to Rome, again at the «Mancini Park Hotel»where he had dinner and stayed overnight.
This morning at 9.00 the training will take place and after lunch (exceptionally set at 11.15) the flight from Fiumicino (1.20 pm) verse Ronchi de’ Legionari, common 30km north-west of Trieste where the main Friulian airport is located, for the first of the two groups, i.e. the one made up of 26 footballers, from Auteri, Carli, Cassia and the doctor Luca Milano. The second group of 10 units (with the president Vigorito, the Cilento club manager, trainers and physiotherapists) will instead take off on another flight, the one at 5.25pm. This is because it was not possible to move the entire party from 40 people with only one plane due to lack of seats due to the very short organizational times. In truth, a half-miracle has already been accomplished.
«We are coming to this match well – he explains Auteri – despite a few small hiccups we worked hard. We also find Improta and Ciciretti who are now in good condition after their respective ailments, I’m only sorry for Pastina. These playoffs he deserved to play them.”
There are 26 players called up, i.e. goalkeepers Paleari, Manfredini and Giangregorio, the defenders Berra, Capellini, Masciangelo, Meccariello, Rillo and Viscardithe midfielders Agazzi, Improta, Karic, Kubica, Nardi, Pinato, Simonetti and Talia, the attackers Bolsius, Carfora, Ciano, Ciciretti, Ferrante, Lanini, Marotta, Perlingieri and Starita. However, there will be five absentees. Nunziante, Rossi, Pastina, Terranova and Benedetti will not even go to Rome (let alone get on the plane to Trieste): the latter three will remain in the city to recover from their injuries. Nunziante will be in Coverciano with the national team Under 17 (summoned in his place Giangregorio), while Rossi is working separately due to a physical problem that he will have to solve and in any case in recent weeks he has always been added to the Spring.
«There is curiosity in facing a team like that Triestina – he specifies Auteri – third or fourth makes little difference, like us they too had an important season. It is always a playoff and therefore it will be a lottery and then we must consider that qualification will be at stake within the 180 minutes».
There are still several doubts surrounding the choices. «I haven’t made any decisions yet – says the coach – although it’s natural that I have some ideas. I know I can count on a cohesive, compact group focused on the objective. I told the boys that we have always done the best things together, while when there were dispersions we found a phase of decline. We are motivated, we want to go far. The selection of who will take the field at this point can only be made on merit. Ciciretti? I expect much more from him than what he has shown in the last period.”
Auteri prefers not to say too much about the type of race that will take place Benevento al “Rocco”. «We certainly won’t think about the advantage gained from the ranking position (with two draws or equal goals in the two matches the Giallorossi would go through, ed.), managing matches is not in our DNA. At most I can concede it in injury time. The problems in defense? Somehow we will find a fourth, Viscardi has qualities that he doesn’t even imagine, Meccariello is much better than 20 days agobut we need to understand if he is able to withstand the impact for an entire match, he who hasn’t been on the pitch for 9 months».
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