If the championship had ended, Cosenza would be safe without the need to make the playouts. A sensational result on the thirteenth matchday for a team built without high ranking ambitions and forced to live with a boulder, the 4 point penalty.
Fourteen points in the ranking: 4 more than Frosinone, 2 more than Cittadella, a cut above even Sudtirol, Salernitana and Carrarese; the same points as Reggiana and Modena. Had the -4 not occurred following the administrative violations recorded in the summer in the club’s upper echelons, Cosenza would have shared a comfortable fifth place with Cremonese, in the midst of a playoff tussle.
The performance of Alvini and his gang is above expectations, thanks to very strong cohesion. The rossoblù play rock, by virtue of the continuity achieved in recent weeks and which the Tuscan coach has spoken about many times. Confirmation has arrived in Brescia of a group that works to travel in a single direction, that of the collective.
A very clear example of this were the key moments of the “Rigamonti” match. Zilli, Mazzocchi and Charlys shared their joy with the bench. The Milanese striker, who up until now had experienced a very complicated period, without goals and with negative performances, released his joy by motioning towards the men present at that moment next to Alvini. A symbolic gesture that conveys the image of a compact changing room. A pine cone formed by the technician, the right leader in such a delicate moment. An added value.
And the team, at the end of the match, surrounded him with enthusiasm to celebrate the success. Referring to a dinner. Another, after the one that preceded the match against Sampdoria, became public following the story shared on Instagram by Michele Camporese.
Cosenza completed its rise between October and the first ten days of November. Between one stop and another he went from last place to direct safety. A stay in Serie B which at the moment remains only virtual: the Wolves’ championship will restart with the need to maintain high concentration and defend what has been gained in this last period.
Now more than ever, the other concept reiterated several times by Alvini will come into play: balance. The mistake would be to raise your sights too much, even with the certainty that in the last five days only Sassuolo (13 points), Pisa (11), Spezia (11) and Cesena (10) have traveled at a higher pace than the Wolves. To maintain confidence and trend it is essential to maintain the working team attitude displayed up to this moment, continuing to clean up errors and limitations that emerged in the first three months of competition.
On both the first and second goals conceded in Brescia, the rossoblù could have done more. The management of the double advantage in the second part of the race, above all, needs to be reviewed. Working on correcting the defects with a calm ranking situation will help to better assimilate the concepts, with the support of the environment, totally aligned with the group and now finally less in fibrillation.
