There is a minimum of surprise, because reading the social comments following the defeat in the Cup with Empoli, or even worse in the friendly with Juventus Next Gen, it was difficult to expect a response of this kind. And instead The Giallorossi fans took less than twenty-four hours to fill the “Ceravolo” in all areas reserved for home supporters.
Having started on Tuesday afternoon, advance sales ended late Wednesday morning, so it was the first league match and the first sold-out match for the Stadio dei Tre Colli, more or less like what happened one year ago, on the unforgettable evening of the home debut against Spezia: that time there were officially 12,196 between season ticket holders and paying spectators (on a Wednesday evening at the end of August, just three days after the victory over Ternana obtained on neutral ground in Lecce). On Sunday there will officially be more, because between season ticket holders (over 5,200) and tickets sold, the threshold of 13,000 spectators can be considered reached.
In the last tournament it happened that “Ceravolo” exceeded 12,000 units (always meaning those paying) on six occasions during the regular season: after Spezia it happened with Parma, Brescia, obviously Cosenza, Como and Venezia and in the two home games of the playoffs against Brescia and Cremonese. The club’s hope is that the team’s results will help the public to return en masse to the stadium. And that the public, on Sunday evening, will push Catanzaro against Sassuolo.
