Lecce Breathes with Baschirotto and Strefezza, Cremonese Sinks The Puglians win on the road and move away from the hot zone of the standings. For Ballardini's team, the situation is getting darker and darker. The cup effect did not bring any benefits, but caused fatigue. Cremonese surrenders (0-2) to Lecce and, after dreaming of reaching the wonderful semi-final of the Coppa Italia with the feats of Naples and Rome, sees its position in the league becoming increasingly dangerous. Especially since this defeat hurts a lot, because it was suffered against a direct competitor. Lecce essentially pulls itself out of trouble where it would have risked losing for the third time in a row after setbacks against Verona and Salernitana. To give joy are the usual heroes: Federico Baschirotto and Gabriel Strefezza who played here in Cremona without leaving a particular mark. Although the Verona defender promised in the spring. But what will give coach Marco Baroni the most pleasure is keeping the goal inviolate. It is a sign that the team was definitely careful after the amnesias of the two previous games. For Cremo, another story began, but only eight points are now very few.

The environment is beautiful. The fans of the Cremo South curve are outside in protest, but especially in solidarity with the Salento supporters (and all residents in Puglia) who were prevented from reaching Cremona by the police. The same fate has befallen those from Bari who would have gone to Ferrara. Better to avoid clashes ... In the stands there are the sporting directors Carlo Osti and Nereo Bonato of Cagliari, at home in these parts.

THE MATCH - The game is played. Ballardini is forced to forego Okereke at the last minute who had a muscle strain on Friday. So the attack pair is formed by veteran and captain Daniel Ciofani and the slippery Okereke. In defense, compared to the Inter match, Ferrari plays on the right instead of Bianchetti, in the middle Pickel returns. Baroni's Lecce returns to standard formation with all men positioned in their areas of competence. At the 4th minute, the first shout is from Gonzalez. But because he takes a hit in the face from Pickel. There is no superamazia, the Salentines play man to man with Baschirotto and Umtiti guarding Ciofani and Dessers. Gendrey starts a nice duel with Valeri often coming out on top. Cremo's game is a bit lacking because Meitè is slow and Hjulmand is always ready to "bite" and Blin and Gonzalez, next to him, double to steal the ball. This allows Baroni's team to restart and look for Colombo who, however, strikes well only once at 7'. Cremo comes out better in the middle of the time, a beautiful run by Sernicola, who does all the field, finds the Lecce defense attentive, a header by Ciofani is easy for Falcone. At 39 ', Lecce loses Blin who comes out badly from a challenge: Askildsen in his place. At 45 'the guests claim for a contact in the area between Vasquez and Strefezza, but for the attentive Orsato it is only a corner. Two minutes of recovery, plus another two that only serve Pickel to be foolishly booked.