Cremonese in Palermo to continue running. Lineups and live TV

Stroppa's team opens the new day of Serie B with the Friday advance at the "Barbera" with the dual objective of reversing the negative tradition and starting again with a victory after the difficult days that followed the maxi disqualification of Vazquez

di LUCA MARINONI
13 March 2025
The technician Giovanni Stroppa

The technician Giovanni Stroppa

On a traditionally stingy field with the grigiorossi like the “Barbera”, Cremonese is getting ready to play early to find important answers for the continuation of his season. The clear success over Catanzaro has significantly relaunched Stroppa's team in the race for fourth place, but the standings remain in constant evolution and, therefore, it will be necessary to continue to give and collect the maximum to be able to finish the regular season in the desired position.

The other big theme of these days (and it couldn't be otherwise) is the one linked to the Vazquez given ten-match ban for alleged racist comments shout at Dorval from Bari. Beyond the appeal announced by the grey-red company, the long stop inflicted by the sports judge on "Mudo" deprives mister Stroppa's team, right at the decisive moment of the season, of a decisive element, capable of transmitting imagination and experience to the whole group, dragging it at the same time with important plays and goals. It is easy to imagine that, at this point, he returnsJohnsen is definitely in the front row, to whom Cremonese asks not only to to be Vazquez's deputy, but, rather, to find that continuity which, in fact, the former Venezia player has never managed to show since his arrival (accompanied by great expectations) in Cremona.

An additional obstacle of no small importance to overcome for the grigiorossi, who will have to deal, in addition to the warm Palermo crowd, also with the ambitions and potential of the rosanero who, despite having invested eloquently on the market, are still forced to fight to secure a place in the play-offs. If you look at the names that make up thestaff available to mister Dionisi, from Brunori to Ranocchia, from Verre to Diakité, without neglecting the recent arrivals of Audero and the bomber Pohjanpalo, it is easy to anticipate that the pink and blacks will try to chase promotion until the end of the play-offs, but, at the moment, Palermo still has to find the squaring of a circle that seems to persist in not wanting to correspond to the hopes of the illustrious Sicilian club. All this for a demanding examination of the truth for the opposing ambitions of a Cremonese that, beyond the absence of Vazquez and regardless of the outcome of the ballots that Stroppa is defining in these last hours of the eve, must use, with pride and determination, precisely this delicate moment to demonstrate with facts that it deserves a leading place in the pursuit of Serie A. Probable lineups: Palermo (3-4-2-1): Audero; Baniya, Magnani, Ceccaroni; Diakité, Blin, Gomes, Di Francesco; Verre, Brunori; Pohjanpalo. All: Alessio Dionisi.

Cremonese (3-5-2): Fulignati; Johnsen, De Luca. Coach: Giovanni Stroppa.

The match will be played Friday March 14 pm 20.30pm at the Barbera Stadium in Palermo and it will be visible on Dazn and LaB Channel.

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