The Pf reassured by the success with Lucca must close the gap from Campobasso Molisane with 2 more races but also 6 points of margin and a calendar in favor
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The victory against Lucca allows Pf Broni 93 to look forward to the last six games of the regular season with more confidence. The team from Oltrepadana strengthens the tenth position with 12 points, detaching the Tuscans (still at 10), who have one more game than the green-and-whites. The ninth place, which would guarantee direct salvation, remains six points away and is currently occupied by Campobasso who won both direct clashes with the Bronesi, therefore it would still have an advantage in a possible finish on equal points at the end of the regular season. The formation of the former Bonasia, Wojta and Tikvic still has 4 matches to play against Broni’s 6, expected instead of a tour de force, with 4 games in 11 days.
It starts tomorrow (ball at two hours 16) on the field of Passalacqua Ragusa, currently third in the standings, in the recovery of the 19th day. It then continues on Saturday (6 pm) on the Virtus Segafredo Bologna parquet for the 23rd day. In short, two demanding trips for the team of coach Alessandro Fontana, who will then have two fundamental home games to secure the tenth place and try to fuel the hopes of avoiding the play outs. The first, Wednesday 24, at 19, against Empoli. The team of the former Ravelli and Premasunac occupies the sixth position, with only two points behind the fifth, so he will be an uncomfortable customer, even if Broni will want to redeem himself after the first leg, when he was defeated by only one point. On Sunday 28 March Dinamo Sassari will be on stage at PalaBrera, currently twelfth with 8 points. Pf won in the first leg, so it is called upon to confirm itself to further distance the sardines.
Broni will then close his regular season with two regional derbies. On Easter Saturday, April 3, it will take place in Sesto San Giovanni; while on 10 April against Costa Masnaga at home: two demanding challenges, but within the reach of the green-and-white team, the second in particular.
Campobasso, easier path
To save himself directly, Broni would have to bypass Campobasso, who are missing four matches but, with the exception of the trip to Ragusa on 3 April, they appear at the Molise’s door. Only the match in San Martino di Lupari could be “indigestible”, while the two housewives against Costa Masnaga and Lucca seem much easier. In short, the hopes of the Oltrepadane to avoid the play outs are limited. Remember that the teams from 10th to 13th position will go to the play-offs; while the last of the classification (Vigarano with two points seems to be doomed) goes directly back to A2. Whoever wins the first round of play out is safe, whoever loses plays a second round, at the end of which the defeated team drops in category. Obviously, everything would be canceled if there were a freezing of retrocessions, a rumor that has circulated with some insistence on specialized sites in recent days, but which has not, at least for the moment, any official confirmation. Already in the summer, the League had tried to expand the A1 championship to 16 teams, but Turin and Palermo had withdrawn, bringing the starting teams back to 14. Who knows that “enlargement” will not be tried again. –
FRANCO SCABROSETTI