Coach Garelli, after the draw of the series with Libertas Livorno in game four, said that the regret was not so much for the defeat that occurred two seconds before the siren of the previous match, but for the delay with which his men had entered the match in the debut match.
Extending the right concept, we can calmly say that the Blacks’ bag of regrets was not filled with the honorable surrender of the “beautiful” on Wednesday evening, but was stratified with the mistakes made in the regular season, and with the long time of decanting to which the neroverdi have obliged themselves to find agreements, determination, unity and balance. Passing through the “round trip” of Garelli himself, with an interregnum of lights and shadows by Lotesoriere, and the small but substantial make-up of the roster. And now dragging the management towards new and deeper reflections: if the confirmations of a large part of the technical staff had in fact, in recent years, been a logical consequence of performing seasons, it may now be necessary to review the strategies, with a view to a change a clearer step in the growth of ambitions and objectives. However, these discussions are premature, until the budget for next season is set, just as the discussions surrounding the coach are premature, even if coach Garelli, at the end of the match, when asked about his future, declared: «I value the experience since my return positive, as shown on the parquet, we will now take a few days to reflect before talking about it with the management, but I have some ideas”.
The Bazzano coach could be referring to his desire to leave the bench and take on a managerial role similar to that of Renato Pasquali with Forlì 2015, with all-round duties in setting up the team. Certainly, at the squad level, we will start again from the contracts already in place, those with Poletti, who arrived in the running this year and Tomasini, who has seen little or nothing in the championship due to physical ailments, and is recovering from the knee operation .
Of Faenza, haggard and exhausted from match five, with his ideas confused by the Tuscan pressure and his hands freezing, Garelli finally regrets it: «We did a lot to force the “beautiful” and then we played a first half that was a photocopy of match one. Paying for a soft, insufficient approach on both sides of the pitch, especially in defence. Libertas attacked us, putting worms in our minds, and the tension played a bad joke on us: we didn’t know how to react, we took hasty shots, leaving points in the open field which gave them confidence and split the game. And when it happens on a pitch like this, it’s difficult to come back, also because they were tough and consistent, leaving us no opportunities to come back.”
From today all this is on file for the Blacks, we will soon start planning for the future.
