SERIES C – RETURN PLAYOUT
NOVARA – FIORENZUOLA 6pm
THE LIVE
Formations
Novara: Minelli, Urso, Bertoncini, Di Munno, Corti, Ongaro, Bentivegna, Ranieri, Boccia, Migliardi, Lorenzini. Available: Menegaldo, Desjardins, Bonaccorsi, Gerardini, Schirò, Kerrigan, De Mori, Cannavaro, Caravaca, Ngamba, Vilhjalmsson, Lancini, Valenti. Coach: Gattuso.
Fiorenzuola: Sarzi, Maffei, Nelli, Bocic, Oneto, Ceravolo, Morello, Cremonesi, Mora, Di Gesù, Anelli. Available: Bertozzi, Grisendi, Binelli, Alberti, Seck, Iasoni, Popovic, Brogni, Musatti, D’Amico, Reali. Coach: Tabbiani.
In the last act of the season, Fiorenzuola will need a real feat to avoid relegation to Serie D. The Rossoneri take to the pitch on Sunday afternoon (kick-off at 6pm, live updates on PiacenzaSera.it) in Novara in the match return to the playouts after the heavy 3-1 defeat against Pavesi. To stay in Serie C you will need to win with at least a three-goal difference, otherwise the Valdardesi will return to the amateurs after three seasons. A very complicated picture for Tabbiani’s team, which this year has always come out defeated in matches against the Piedmontese and which last Sunday compromised the match already in the first 45 minutes, ending by three goals.
Furthermore, the coach will have to deal with some training problems, given the absences of Potop (suspended) andSussi injured; Bondioli won’t be there either, instead Reali’s condition needs to be assessed, although he is still among the squad called up. “We are hurt and angry, but not dead – said the coach after the first leg match -; we won’t go to Novara on holiday, we will have to give everything on the pitch. I don’t think that Novara already consider themselves safe, they know very well that we need to play one more match: we know well that the situation is complicated, I think that 99% of Italy considers Fiorenzuola already relegated, but we have to leverage that one percent and take to the field with the desire to try to do a feat”.
