Difficult but not impossible. To the Palermo we need a “small business” (as he defined it Mignani at the press conference) to access the playoff final: the squad must win on the Venezia pitch by two or more goals (HERE the rules). There were eight victories of this type during the season, one at the “Penzo”.
One of Palermo’s main problems during the season was that of not knowing how to manage matches. The team often made a comeback, despite the one-goal advantage, and several victories came by ‘short-sighted’ due to a lack of control in the matches. On eight occasions the squad recorded a gap of at least two goals, seven times in the championship (3rd matchday, Reggiana – Palermo 1 – 3, 4th matchday Palermo – FeralpiSalò 3 -0, 7th matchday Venezia – Palermo 1 – 3, 9th matchday Modena – Palermo 0 – 2, 21st matchday Palermo – Modena 4 – 2, 23rd matchday Palermo – Bari 3 – 0, 25th matchday Palermo – Como 3 – 0) and once in the preliminary round of the playoffs against Sampdoria (2 – 0 on final results).
All these victories by two or more goals they arrived in the two best moments of Palermo’s season: at the beginning of the championship, when the team seemed to be launched in the very top areas of the table, and between January and February, in the comeback phase with a view to second place (then vanished in Cremona). Mignani, since arriving in the Sicilian capital, has won only one match with a difference of two or more goals: against Sampdoria. A precedent, however, gives the rosanero hope.
Among the seven triumphs in the championship, the one that inevitably stands out is victory with a two-goal difference at the “Penzo” in Venice. It was one of Palermo’s best away performances, with a sumptuous Brunori, scoring a hat-trick. It was a different team, clearly, just as Vanoli’s team was also different, but it is equally clear that this is a useful precedent for food for thought in view of Friday’s match.
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