The final rush for Reggina is approaching. The team resumed training yesterday afternoon, the entire week of preparation for the Gela trip will take place behind closed doors. From tomorrow until Saturday all work sessions will take place in the morning. To still hope for first place, the Amaranths know they have to win all of their last five matches, but the group’s obligation is to think one match at a time. The last two direct clashes won, only partially useful in making up for the many missed opportunities, have shown the way.
Reggina now seems to have a typical formation that offers greater guarantees at the moment and, despite a few possible variations, the feeling is that they are moving forward on that path. It is difficult, for example, to think of giving up Luca Ferraro in attack. In Palermo he found the goal again after six games without, in a phase in which he had not always started. It was probably no coincidence that, during the nine consecutive victories, the team’s center forward scored six goals in six different matches. Just as, in the overall seasonal analysis, of the 8 goals scored, 4 decided matches won by 1-0 (Nissa, Enna, Sambiase, Athletic Palermo) and 1 led to a comeback draw against Savoia. The team has paid a bit for its period of tarnishment, also because during the transfer market a player who could replace him due to his characteristics and physical presence did not arrive. A lack that is almost the flip side of the intuition of focusing on a player who had just returned from a good season at Sambiase.
The decision was made to bring Guida to Reggio, a different player who has so far failed to make an impact. But Reggina also has other certainties. For example, the defensive pair formed by the brothers from Girasole La Reggina has the two of them at the center of a four-man defense (not three-man) and has played 11 matches: they have won 9, drawn 1 (with Savoia) and lost only one against Vigor Lamezia, keeping eight clean sheets (also included in the count is the match against Sambiase, where the younger brother left after a few minutes).
