Modena The leap in quality was so close
The Canaries played one of their best games of the season in Cremona. The result is missing and it is in attack that the numbers don't add up
Two draws. So similar, yet so different. If last week's navigators' bulletin was full of regret for the missed home win against Frosinone, forty-eight hours after Cremona, having put aside for a moment the bitter taste in the mouth for a victory that vanished in the 87th minute, there remains a positive taste for a performance that is certainly among the best of the season.
However, since the draws, whether disappointing or comforting, still leave only one point in the bag, that subtle frustration of waiting for that famous leap in quality that doesn't want to arrive still remains in the air. The standings are still short, the playoffs are only three points away, just as the hot zone has remained five points away. The many draws of the management of Paul Mandelli (which still has ten useful results out of eleven games), so far is keeping the yellow and blue boat in a good waterline: in a championship where the 'x' sign comes out very frequently, moving up the standings keeps you on course. But, as we were saying, something is still missing, or rather in every game there is always a detail that is out of place and does not make the game go the way expected. In the last two performances of the yellows, for example, that little bit more attention was lacking in defense, at least two of the three goals conceded are in the catalog of avoidable goals; but even up front there is sometimes an air of something unfinished, because despite having on paper the strongest offensive department of recent years, instead they have relied on the famous goal cooperative, which with Di Pardo's goal in Cremona has added the seventeenth registered.
The injury of Pedro Mendes it's now far away in time, Defrel has reached a good condition, and something more is expected from them, beyond Caso's counterattacking skills and the great moment of Palumbo for which Modena currently does not seem to be willing to listen to offers, above all those of Sampdoria (which Genoese sources say were pressing hard no later than yesterday) for the canary number 10. Returning to the previous discussion on the value of Modena's offensive department, let's not forget that two elements like Gliozzi and Abiuso, who would most likely find space in a good part of the cadet teams, are used sparingly. In the series, you can't field four centre-forwards obviously, but you have them anyway and there is no lack of choice. But let's get back to that leap in quality that has been awaited for a long time, which passes inextricably from starting to win again, five successes since the start of the championship are in fact a bit too few. It was said above that the points that separate Modena from the still unexplored area of the first eight places are only three, it might not be a feat to catch up with them. But the question is another, will the playoffs take place? The first three run (and win, in the championship of many draws) and the Spezia, third, already has an eight-point advantage over Cremonese, currently in fourth place.
The 14 points of detachment that would send the first three directly to Serie A without passing through the start are not that far away. As Renzo Arbore said in an old beer commercial, think about it people, think about it. In the meantime, on Saturday at the Braglia the Mantova, a team that plays good football especially away from Martelli. If it is true that Modena plays well against those who play, let's not miss the opportunity. We'll think about the rest later.
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