The Apulians win 3-0 at Liberati and maintain their category thanks to a pearl from the defender (on his forty-first birthday) and goals from Ricci and Sibilli
After Lecco, Feralpisalò and Ascoli, the Ternana completes the list of teams relegated from B series. The return playoffs between Bari and the Umbrians (after the 1-1 draw in the first leg at San Nicola) smile at the Apulian team with a score of 3-0. Captain Di Cesare (now forty-one years old) broke the deadlock with a spectacular volley in injury time in the first half, Ricci scored the second in the 51st minute and Sibilli closed the score in the 64th minute.
Aggressive start from the hosts, immediately close to taking the lead with Carboni’s left-footed shot deflected into the outside of the net. The Apulian reaction is imminent: Sibilli exchanges with Ricci on the left side of the area and kicks powerfully towards the near post, but Iannarilli blocks with his feet. The red and whites look for the right opportunity to hurt the home team, but it is the team coached by Breda that comes close to scoring again in the 27th minute, when Favasuli goes on his own on the right wing, comes back on the left foot and shoots just wide . Sibilli once again created the conditions for the guests’ second great chance of the match, with a cross-shot that barely missed the opposing goalkeeper on the half-hour mark. Bari scores the goal in the first minute of injury time with the captain Of Caesarauthor (on his forty-first birthday and in what could be his last career match) of a pearl in a half bicycle kick following the development of a corner kick.
Breda removes Faticanti at half-time and inserts Raimondo to increase Ternana’s offensive weight, but it is Giampaolo’s team that finds the very heavy second goal: Ricci receives from Nasti and enters from the left, passing Iannarilli with a perfect diagonal. The Umbrians have the chance to reopen the match with Distefano on game time, but his conclusion finds the deflection of Pissardo and the post. From the potential 1-2 we went to 0-3 in the 64th minute, with Sibyls capable of hurting the opposing defense by entering the area from the left and finding the winning solution with the help of Dalle Mura’s deflection. Dorval, after participating in the three-of-a-kind action, comes close to scoring a poker in the following minutes, while Pereiro sends it high from a good position. The final only gives a bit of nervousness (Bellomo gets a red card from the bench) and a few opportunities (the poker in Benali is cancelled): Bari triumphs and thus remains in the second division, while Fere are relegated to C (they had been in B since 2021) before his own people.
