From now on, there’s no more joking. The post season of the top championship reserved for 2009 will start on Sunday, with Rome And Lazio who will want to be great protagonists, but it will be really hard. It will be for the training of Mattia Scalawhich has grown enormously enough to finish the group at the top of the rankings, leaving behind two big names such as Florentine and Empoli. Imagine how complicated it could be for Lazio, who managed to change the technical leadership twice between September and April. Before HireThen Galluzzo and now Wrinkles, who was already a technical collaborator in the Primavera. We’ll see what the new coach can do, with little time and a lot of pressure. However, the Roma squad seems to be moving ahead and certainly cannot hide after such a journey, which has seen its peak in the last two months. High point so far, at least… Speaking of difficulties, in this first round of matches it will be above all Lazio who will have them, called to face a Genoa who closed the regular season as queen of group D, putting behind them teams of the caliber of Bologna and especially Juventus. From the ranking of group B, the one from which Roma’s next opponent came – Venezia – the ranking should not make us believe that it will be easy. The lagoon players entered the round of 16 train at the last gasp thanks to the sixth position achieved against Monza, but in a much more difficult grouping than, for example, Genoa’s group B: Venice which had to deal with teams of the caliber of Milan, Inter, Atalanta and Hellas Verona. Venice which, to conclude, has seen and will see in bomber jackets Francesco Luongo the spearhead of a team, what problems he can certainly create.
