BARI – It should have been the match of hope, to bring home three essential points for survival. Instead in Calabria it ended badly, very badly. A poker cashed by Consenza which pushes Bari into third to last position. Given that Ascoli beat Ternana, if the championship ended today the red and white team would be relegated to Serie C. And the prospects are complicated: leaders Parma arrive on Wednesday 1 May at 6pm, on Sunday 5 the away match on the Cittadella pitch which is struggling for the playoffs, finally Brescia still in the running for promotion.
The news. After a free kick barely blocked by Pissardo, Cosenza took the lead in the 5th minute with a textbook Calò-D’Orazio-Mazzocchi action. Bari tries to react but in the 17th minute Cosenza doubles the lead with the usual Tutino (16th centre) after an exchange with Marras. Immediately afterwards, with a photocopy action, Tutino comes close to scoring a hat trick. At this point the Calabrians disappear from the scene. And Bari comes close to scoring with Kallon, Sibilli (post) and Pucino, while Camporese comes close to an own goal. In the 44th minute a flash from Nasti reopens the match.
At the start of shooting the script does not change. The second pole arrives from Bari with Nasti, then again Benali and Sibilli scare Micai. But in the 35th minute Calò’s surgical free-kick and Forte’s goal from just before the pitch came to close the score, giving half safety to Cosenza and getting Bari into trouble, who closed with ten men for the straight red to Bellomo. It ends 4-1.
THE REACTION OF THE FANS
The fans’ anger is mounting on social media at the outcome of the match played at Marolla: “It’s a shame” – the red and white supporters write on Facebook. «We deserve the C series», others joke. The fact is that the general discontent of the Apulian fans is uncontainable. Someone talks about an “unpresentable team”, someone else attacks the De Laurentiis. «Humiliating almost two thousand people who followed you as we always do and have always done…», write the representatives of organized support. «The lowest point since I followed Bari – writes another fan -. Worse than football betting. Worse than failure. A Bari in the relegation zone not even in the years of penalties and self-management of the last years of As Bari. Shame on you all».
