Ternana made a race against time, we were saying. But the time factor was decisive right from the start. It was the weather that forced the red-greens into an increasingly frantic chase. Ternana was relegated against Bari. In a play-off where he had two results out of three available. She was relegated by playing her “usual” game at Liberati, waiting rather than attacking. They were relegated by conceding their opponent, when one goal would have been enough to send them to hell. It was relegated because the mistakes it made were many mistakes and they were made by amateurs or by kids. She was relegated because the difference in stomach hair with Di Cesare, Maiello or Benali was abysmal. They were relegated because we never saw the courage they showed in Bari again.
She’s relegated in one game, yes. Because, net of all the errors that occurred during the season Ternana had still had the chance to save himself. In the end the mistakes of the whole year had been cleaned up. They had weighed less than we could have imagined. The requested miracle was to be able to take advantage of this opportunity and Ternana, against Bari, is as if they had kicked themselves in the ass. First you earn, with effort, the possibility of glory, then you decide not to exploit it. And no one would have ever imagined such a surrender: only to then look at the internal progress of the team in the last period, Catanzaro aside, given that in the last championship games it is the motivations that make the difference. Ascoli (0-1, in a dramatic direct clash), Modena (0-0), Cosenza (won through suffering and conceding), Parma (lost), Lecco (0-0, against the last team in the standings), Spezia (1 -1, in the direct clash), Como (lost).
But we go too far, this is not the topic. Despite this internal path, even a draw would have been fine. And instead Ternana got on board right away. Despite two or three good scoring opportunities (Carboni, Favasuli and Amatucci) she was not in control of the pitch, as in other circumstances. He (also) suffered: Ricci with Iannarilli’s save, Sibilli’s cross not touched by anyone, a very high shot from Maiello, Di Cesare’s goal. Which should have reawakened the Ternana but instead probably sunk it. And the corrections brought by Breda (with Raimondo on the pitch for a midfielder) brought nothing. In fact they didn’t have time to bring anything. Because after a few minutes here is Bari’s goal again, the one that kills you psychologically. One-two at half-time. Game over.
Here Ternana was relegated. At Liberati: because even if everyone did their best to say that everything was still in the balance, two results out of three would have rewarded the rossoverdi. But Ternana played for a draw. That’s why it was 50/50. Now that Ternana is in C it’s perhaps easier to say. But we wish we had more courage maybe we would have lost anyway, but with less regret at the end of the game. Ternana was relegated because there were too many carelessness in a match, starting with the defense. Errors individual and of youth: which at this point are worth one season.
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