Return match of the playout between Ternana and Bari. There will be no other possibility of appeal. This evening we will decide who will sign up for the next Serie B championship, as Ternana coach Roberto Breda said.
Sold out stadium. We will see during the evening how many are present at Liberati.
THE TRAININGS OF THE TWO TEAMS
TERNANA: IANNARILLI 7.5, LUCCHESI 6, CASASOLA 6, DALLE MURA 6, FATICANTI 5, LUPERINI 5, AMATUCCI 7, CARBONI 5, FAVASULI 6, PEREIRO 6, DISTEFANO 6
FROM THE BENCH: DIONISI SV, DE BOER SV, RAIMONDO 2
COACH, BREDA
BARI: PISSARDO 6, RICCI 7, DI CESARE 8, PUCINO 6.5, BENALI 7, MAIELLO 6, VICARI 6, MAITA 7.5, DORVAL 7, SIBILLI 7, NASTI 6.5
FROM THE BENCH: PUSCAS SV, ACAMPORA SV, LULIC SV, MATINO SV, MORACHIOLI SV
COACH, GIAMPAOLO
THE REFEREE IS ROMA’S PEN, 5.5 (because the choice of yellow for Di Cesare for the foul on Distefano is very doubtful, it could have been red).
THE START AT 8.30 PM
The bitterest night at the end of a season that started badly and ended equally badly (and also a little unexpectedly).
Let’s face it, we all hoped for salvation, to a certain extent. And not even in the worst of nightmares could one imagine the result achieved on the field.
Bari, it must be clear, deserved the victory and had the merit of breaking the deadlock with a wonderful goal from Di Cesare.
Up until then the match had been rather balanced even if it was clear that Bari this evening was the distant relative of Bari from the first leg.
Ternana had few opportunities to get to the Pissardo area. Distefano, Favasuli, Pereiro were hunted down and immobilized. And the light went out, almost immediately. But it was Di Cesare’s goal at the end of the first half that split the match. At that point it was Ternana who had to look for the saving goal. Breda’s offensive attempt was appreciable and they put Raimondo on the field right from the start of the second half. But Raimondo, who hasn’t been himself for a long time, has clearly betrayed expectations, resulting in him being absolutely useless, if not harmful.
And when Ricci, after just 5 minutes of the second, resolved a melee in the area, we understood that it wasn’t exactly an evening. The young red-green team didn’t even have time to get up before Dorval punished them for a faulty exit from the defence. At that point the 0-3 had become an impossible mountain to climb (Ternana is not Bologna’s Juventus) and it was only a quarter of an hour into the second half.
Nobody believed it anymore, neither on the pitch nor in the stands with the people who began to leave well before the end. So the match ended in the 60th minute. Those 30 minutes (plus the 6 recovery minutes “inflicted” by La Penna) were a further humiliation. An additional punishment. In other words, you don’t even deserve to play it to the end.
In fact, not even in the worst of nightmares. Bari celebrates at Liberati, Di Cesare, on his birthday, is carried to triumph.
Ternana condemned to the hell of the C series.
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