Venice: the final is near

TURIN – Tonight, kick-off at 8.30pm, the Serie B playoffs resume with the first return semi-final, Venice-Palermo, with the lagoon players winning the first leg at Barbera 0-1, goal by Pierini, son of art, his father was a decent defender, he is an underrated striker but in Vanoli’s Venezia, if he didn’t find too much space, it’s only because the orange-greens have a formidable attack, it wasn’t easy to find him a starting place, or almost, anymore than he did all season. But on the occasions he had, he often left his mark, as with the fabulous goal against Barbera which led to the return match, in which Venezia, in a Penzo overflowing with genuine, colorful passion and stands packed to the limit of capacity, will have two results out of three, indeed, more, they can even afford to lose with a one-goal margin, they would go to the final anyway, by virtue of their best placing in the championship (Venezia finished third and Palermo sixth). Therefore, Mignani’s Palermo is called to the task, almost desperate, they will go to the final if they win only by a two-goal margin. The Genoese coach, after many initial difficulties and an endless series of draws, is back from two consecutive victories: in the last round of the championship, the 0-1 of Druso from Bolzano against Sudtirol, with a goal from Diakité, a Serie A defender , followed by success in the preliminary round of the playoffs, where at Barbera, Mignani, as a Ligurian, eliminated SamPirlo, with full merit. Therefore it will be rather complicated to assert oneself at Penzo this evening, even though Palermo is still a team owned by Manchester City, equipped with almost unlimited resources and therefore far superior to those available to Venezia of the American Duncan Niederauaer, who certainly doesn’t swim. in gold. However, on the pitch, the values ​​that striker Pohjanpalo, top scorer of the regular season with 22 goals, and singing company, have shown during the season are expected to prevail and which are superior to those of a Palermo team that presented itself at the starting line as one of the favorites for direct promotion but which suffered from the wrong decision to start the season with Corini who had already failed at the end of last year, when he failed to even qualify for the playoffs, despite already having a respectable squad at his disposal. Which, despite the important additions, in the summer and in the January repair market, should have given much more. At least that’s what some names said. But then, as we know, on the field it’s (almost) always a different story