Muscle injury Ikwuemesihigh fever of Simythe legal dispute of Dia: Salernitana takes leave of Serie A at Arechi even with a blunt attack. Colantuono resorted to calling up two young players from the Primavera – Gerardo Fusco and Luca Boncori – to replenish a department that was qualitatively, and even numerically, reduced to minimal terms. In the ranks of the first team only remain available Tchaouna and Weissman there in front to «not miss out» – as the Roman coach himself hopes – the penultimate opportunity that the calendar offers the Granata to hit that victory missing for eighteen dayspractically since December 30th last year.
On the way
Almost an entire group and all of 2024 passed without a shred of success. The last one, which is just the second of the season, at the Bentegodi in Verona against Hellas, who coincidentally is also the opponent of the moment. The one who has already celebrated a promotion to Serie B in the via Allende stadium (despite losing by a narrow margin in the second leg of the playoffs of the 2010/2011 season) and who this time aims to repeat it by winning the three points that would arithmetically guarantee salvation in Serie A a day early. A humiliation that the home fans (over fifteen thousand announced in the standswhere the Curva Sud Siberiano will present a choreography, to which many children gathered at the Pastena marketlast Saturday, contributed – literally – with their own hands) do not intend to add to the shame of humiliations suffered in this championship, both at home and away.
Colantuono’s push
Colantuono, who is not only the club’s man on the granata bench but also the only guarantor of what remains of the dignity of the square, he knows it well. The message addressed to his team in the pre-match against the Scaligeri was clear and strong: «A match awaits us that we will face to the best of our ability because we want to end this championship with an important result. We owe it to ourselves, to society, and to our people.”. And also a little to the history of top-flight tournaments with twenty teams, which runs the risk of adding the name of Salernitana to the chapter of negative records, both in terms of internal performance (Frosinone 2018/2019 stopped at nine points, one more than those put together so far by Fazio and his teammates) than the overall one (Pescara 2016/2017 did not go beyond eighteen in the standings, while the current threshold for the bottom of the class is sixteen). «In the last few races we performed well, both against Atalanta and, in particular, against Juventus. The team is starting to do something more and this makes me very happy because it means that the work of these few weeks has brought some results. A success would be a fitting conclusion of a very complicated little journey also due to the many injuries.”
The injured
It is a constant this year to count the defections. In addition to the three aforementioned attackers, they still visit Ochoa, Boateng, Gyomber, Martegani, Bradaric and Gomis. «They will join the group both Candreva and Maggiore with clearly limited playing time having only done a couple of training sessions with the group. However, it will need to be evaluated Kastanos which is slightly further ahead”, tries to console Mr. Colantuono, whose thoughts are always entrusted (with some inaccuracies here and there) to the Salernitana communications office. Who “suggests” to the coach, in the statements made the day before, to address «condolences to the Chiaiese family for the passing of Gianluca, a huge Salernitana fan who unfortunately left us prematurely” and to also address “Hats off to Asia, a girl from Sala Consilina, who was bullied in an unworthy manner on social media. We are all close to her and invite her not to give up and to always be proud of herself.”
