It's not just a question of fear: this set-up doesn't pay off. This championship is agony. And the front trident doesn't work

The usual movie. The Spal who at the fifteenth round of the return leg still hasn't won a single match at home after the halfway point, risks losing to the bottom team too Legnago, and thus to strongly apply for the relegation live. Once down for the usual load of fears and assorted inabilities, the team at least found the push for Molina's goal of 1-1, thwarting that fear.

For now, at least: if Spal doesn't get the three points against Legnago either, we have to wonder when they'll win one, and the risk of ending up at the bottom with the hot potato in their hands is starting to get high. With Lucchese - yes, they - showing pride, beating Ternana with 4 goals, Spal also says goodbye to the hope of a fifth-last place, +9 from the second-last. Now they just have to be careful not to lose their place in the playouts.

But it's not just a question of fear. That 4-3-3, it's now clear, doesn't pay. He didn't do it with Dossena and he doesn't do it with Baldini. The coach proposed it again to give courage to his players, and this is understandable, but it doesn't work. You can also play with 4 in defense, if you want, but the trident has no goals in its feet. Rao has been dry for months after the good start, Parigini and Spini have confirmed that they don't have goals in their blood.

Antenucci, the centre forward, fights like a lion, but if you play long throws with him in the middle like in the first half yesterday, too many balls come back, allowing the opponent on duty to propose the game as even happened to Legnago (!) until the change of formation.

With two strikers close together it is less difficult to communicate forward and advance, and maybe you can get something more, like in yesterday's recovery. Certainly, this championship continues to be an agony.

In the second half of the season, in 15 games, Spal got 10 points by winning in Lucca and Pian Castagnaio, and never at home. Baldini collected 5 points in 8 games, losing at the "Mazza" with anyone except this Legnago.

We desperately search for a reason to be optimistic, but Spal never manages to offer one. And now in Sassari it will not be easier than at home with the taillight, indeed...