Ending the 2017 and with it the first round of the Serie B football championship 2017 / 2018 and if the season ended so would sanction the immediate return in Serie A of Palermo in addition to that of Frosinone faded by a breath last year. Empoli, Bari, Parma, Cremonese, Cittadella and La Spezia would take part in the playoffs. After a practically fixed presence of Venice in the noble area of the ranking, they took to the photo finish, the last available place that would allow him to play the A series at the expense of the Inzaghi band. As for the topic of salvation, today they would abandon the cadet series in order of demerit, Pro Vercelli, Ascoli and Ternana, while Foggia and Cesena would play the last place in the play-out that would allow to participate in the next B series championship 2018 / 2019.
But let's get back to yesterday, the 21ª. The Palermo straps with an 3-0 that probably punishes beyond the real demerits the Salernitana of the new leader Colantuono. The rosanero, however, give a test of strength that if there was still need to understand with in fact as well as with the names in pink and the tips of the insiders, who is the team to beat. Tedino's men scored a hat-trick by Cocev, Monachello and Jajalo. Three goals that equal three heavy points thanks to which the Palermo "graduates" winter champion from the top of his 39 points, two more than one of the other battleships of the championship, the Frosinone of Moreno Longo who conquers the comeback Zaccheria of Foggia thanks to the double of his bomber of race Daniel Ciofani (for Foggia had marked Beretta) and sits at 37 points in a position of privilege that as mentioned today would mean direct series A.
The championship, however, does not end here and the results obtained at the so-called "turning point" only serve for statistics. The main teams that aim to subvert the current hierarchies are just those that follow the pair of head, namely the very strong and ambitious Empoli and Bari that travel paired to share 34 and Parma that points to 33 points. Not even a surprising Cremonese spring that follows 32 points, but in direct promotion the two names will likely come out among the five teams that currently lead the series B. Empoli thanks to the "award winning company" Caputo-Donnarumma, espugna with a pyrotechnic 4-2 the Curi of Perugia, getting the first victory of the Andreazzoli era and relegating the Perugia in a position not really desired especially after the excellent start in the championship of the Umbrian griffins. The 6 nets of the match are the result of the 3 doubles scored by Donnarumma and Caputo (the second network thanks to a decisive deviation of Volta) for Empoli and Di Carmine for Perugia. The Bari fails to get the better of the usual "crabby" and coriaceous Carpi di Calabro that Cabassi, even in front of the strong team of Puglia, shows not to suffer from any inferiority complex and forces the men of Fabio Grosso to an 0- 0 which provides continuity to both formations and keeps the Bari in full promotion while allowing the Emilia to sit in a ranking area a few steps from the play-off area. A point behind the Tuscan-Pugliese couple we find at 33 the Parma that in anticipation of the other day, although outnumbered throughout the second half, had failed to bend a spice at home that seems to have found the right balance for try again this year to stabilize in a play-off area, to date anything but impossible.
Immediately behind the ducal, with 32 points we find the other newly promoted Cremonese and the wonderful confirmation of the cadet, Cittadella. La Cremonese thanks to the success achieved yesterday against a Cesena decidedly revitalized by the Castori care thanks to the heavy gray grove that bears the signature of Paulinho and gives 3 gold points to the men of Tesser, now firmly in the high areas of the standings. The Citadel that with full merit stabilizes in the play-off zone by storming the Piola di Vercelli, "condemns" the landlords to the last solitary place. The goals for the Veneto were signed by Chiaretti and Iori, while in the final race Pro Vercelli tried to reopen the match thanks to the net, which later proved to be only the flag, scored by Polidori. The last train car of the play-off train is called La Spezia, which has 30 points and precedes by only one but at the time very heavy length the Venezia-Carpi couple. The lagoons who had been practically all round the first leg in a position useful to play the next play-off, just the last day before the rest, losing measure in Pescara due to the beautiful goal of Valzania, go out, even momentarily , from the "good living room" of the B series and are hooked up to 29 from the Carpi we have already talked about. Just the Pescara of Zeman comes out revitalized by the victory obtained in the Cesarini area against Venice and is placed at 28, in a position certainly lower than the expectations of the eve of the championship, but still interesting to bring his attack to the play-off area. At 26 points we find a Salernitana that does not make us understand what pasta is made and what it can really aim for. Dini a few days ago, also due to a long series positive 12 duration games, the grenades seemed to occupy steadily the top floors of the standings, but a recent swinging trend, started with Bollini and continued with Colantuono, has lost important positions to the Campania that today are stationed in the limbo of the series B, 4 points from the play-offs and three from the play-out. Situation similar to that of the historical rivals dell'Avellino stationed a point below 25 share, and breathe thanks to the success obtained yesterday against the Partenio Ternana, folded with the result of 2-1 due to the networks of Asencio and Bidaoui. The flag network signed by the Tremolada rossoverde was virtually useless. At 24 points, one just above the play-out area, we find the trio composed of Perugia, defeated at home against Empoli and from Novara who defeated in Chiavari for 2-1, also allows the Ligurians to support them in the last position useful that would guarantee them to play the next B series championship. In fact, the last position in this regard occupied the Brescia Pasquale Marino that after the defeat of yesterday suffered at home against the former rear light Ascoli (the decisive network is Buzzegoli) remains at 23 points, the same that Cesena has accumulated but due to a difference in networks worse than the Lombards, at the time it would be condemned to play for the permanence in Serie B in the play-out lottery against Foggia that after yesterday's internal slide against Frosinone remains at 22 points , but proves to be healthy anyway. They end the ranking in the last three positions that today would mean direct relegation, Ternana, Ascoli and Pro Vercelli. The points of the points have 21 and all in all they play a good football even if perhaps for the poor quality of the interpreters available they can not be more concrete in a series B championship to be tackled with a knife between their teeth. The rossoverdi, however, apart from some recent criticism against the leader Pochesci who personifies the indomitable spirit of the people of Terni, seem to be square and strongly believe they can reach together a goal that the square of Terni, just returned this year to the glories of the past in terms of passion and participation, it proves to deserve.
Yesterday in Brescia he took to 20 points, leaving Pro Vercelli the unedifying role of the last of the class at 18 points.
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