Giornale di Sicilia: “Poker is a taboo: Palermo is trying to serve it”

The hunt for Rosanero is renewed on different fronts: top of the rankings, confirmation of continued progress and, above all, a fourth victory in a row. The first attempt, on 22 September against Cosenza, was unsuccessful: a home defeat that led to a mocking Eurogoal Canotto final did not, however, diminish the ambitions of Palermo, who arrived for Monday’s match against Spezia on the back of successive victories over opponents who were anything but comfortable, like in Venice.

Sudtirol-Modena (first and third away). With equal games (one game less for both), the difference between the Roses and the Ligurians is 13 points: an aspect that, however, will not make Corini underestimate the commitment, because in any case Spezia were relegated after three years due to Having suffered defeat in the survival playoff against Verona, he began with ambitions to quickly return to Serie A, and in a championship with a thousand faces like Cadet, it doesn’t take much to rise in the rankings.

Further success will open up attractive scenarios for Palermo, who will enter the field knowing all the results of the 10th round: against the backdrop of an enthusiastic Barbera, striving to surpass the figures recorded in the first matches of the season (22,700 Feralpisalo, 26 thousand Cosenza and 24,400 Sudtirol ) and that he was that twelfth player on the field was questioned many times by Corini and the players. A fourth consecutive championship victory has been missing since the spring of 2022: then the team led by Baldini ended the Serie C year with resounding success over Taranto (5-2). Picerno (4-0), Monopoli and Bari (0-2 double, clinching third place and laying the foundation for a great playoff run. Three years earlier in Serie D, Palermo opened the season (after bankruptcy) without ever leaving points on away in the first ten games, in B.