Salernitana-Udinese 0-4: the bells are saved thanks to Venice

A last day to rub your eyes gives the most incredible night to the history of the annals that frames Salernitana’s Serie A salvation. Conquered with a comeback show the possibility of having destiny in their own hands, with the match point on their foot the grenades derailed sinking with a despicable 0-4 home to the taste of infamy against a Udinese who had nothing more to ask for. And yet they end up celebrating their confirmation in the top league because Cagliari, which appeared in the last round at -2 from the fourth-last campani, has in turn been shipwrecked in the lagoon, stopped by a useless draw that leaves the Sardinians one point behind in ranking, third last and therefore relegated. Saving Nicola.

Historical

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At the third experience in Serie A, for the first time unlike what happened in 1947-48 and then in 1998-99, Salernitana closes with salvation and maintains the category, realizing what, last night apart, had been a comeback show : 15 points in the last 7 games played after having made 16 in the first 30, with a last month and a half of momentum from the fourth last place to -9 from Cagliari (albeit with two games less) up to the overtaking on Sardinians, Genoa and Venice and his stay in Serie A with the complicity of the competition. But luck favors the bold, and Nicola was so because of how he revived a story that until the beginning of April seemed to have an already widely written outcome.

UPHILL

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That for Salernitana risked being a less triumphal evening than hoped for was immediately understood: after a test a couple of minutes just beyond the intersection, already at 6 ‘a right from outside the area of ​​Deulofeu – unleashed and impregnable with his raids on the center-left – he went to put Belec in the low corner. If it could only seem the wrong start of an evening in which the fear of winning could be blocked by Salernitana – which Verdi (19 ‘) and Bonazzoli (23’) tried to debunk from outside the area always finding great answers from Padelli ( at 30 ‘on a free-kick from Verdi, at 40’ double save again on him and Bonazzoli) – in reality it was the start of an inclined plane that sent the evening grenade to hell.

RACE CLOSED

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So the doubling denied to Deulofeu before the half hour by a (right) offside on Walace’s filter had to wait just another five minutes to really arrive from Nestorovic’s head, left all alone in the area by Radovanovic and caught with the crosshair from the cross from the back of Molina. Which becomes 0-3 in the 42nd minute with a show by Udogie, capable of recovering the ball on the trocar, concentrating, aiming for Gyomber and starting a great shot to turn to freeze the Arechi already in shock.

TO THE SMARTPHONE

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A couple of signs of a reversal of the trend seemed to have already arrived at the end of the first half: a pole resulting from the rescue of the flying Padelli on a header from Fazio’s corner, and then the penalty saved from Pereyra by Belec who had landed clearly again Deulofeu. Illusions. Pereyra’s goal will then arrive on the counterattack at the beginning of the second half, unleashing the fury of the Arechi on and off the pitch, with a suspension of the game for five minutes, almost a fight on the lawn, throwing of objects and the beginning of a fire in the curve, fortunately without serious consequences. In fact, the game ended here, beyond a post on one side and a crossbar on the other now irrelevant, the attention shifted to smartphones clinging to the hope of a non-victory for Cagliari. Exaudita, thanks to the resistance of the already relegated Venice to which Salernitana owes a piece of salvation. In addition to the prophet David Nicola.

OWNERSHIP AND COACHES

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Amidst the chaos of the transfer of ownership from Claudio Lotito to the trust that was to be used to manage the transaction until the formalized last minute purchase on December 31st by Danilo Iervolino, without which the club would have been excluded from the championship, on the pitch there is I needed to go through three different coaches to find the right guide: with Fabrizio Castori, the promotion man from Serie B, 6 defeats, one draw and one success in the first 8 games; then with Stefano Colantuono 10 defeats, 3 draws and 2 victories in 15 races; finally the rebirth with Davide Nicola and his 4 successes, 6 draws and 5 defeats in 15 games.

THE REBIRTH

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So this salvation became the story of a climb from the underworld of a year that had its first success on the seventh day, and so far there had been five defeats in six games. And still almost at the halfway point the points were still the misery of 8 after 18 games of which 14 were lost, in any case at -5 from a safety level that was always quite low, helping to keep the flame of hope alive while slowly rising from the last, in the penultimate up to the third last place. Signs of life had already arrived with the four peers in a row in February, in the middle of which there had been the alternation between Colantuono and Nicola. The connection to the fourth to last Cagliari arrived a month ago by beating Fiorentina, and the week after the overtaking with a draw at Atalanta taking advantage of the vertical collapse of the Sardinians: 4 points in 10 days even before this last round. Which came full circle with a movie ending.