Goals and tears for Cheddira: Lecce beats Pisa, sees salvation and sends the Tuscans and Verona to B

Lecce wins 2-1 the salvation challenge that opens the thirty-fifth day of Serie A, simultaneously sending the Tuscan Nerazzurri to Serie B. Walid Cheddira’s goal decided at the Cetilar Arena, in his first very important goal in the Giallorossi magila: a goal celebrated amid tears of emotion under the guest sector and that allows the team coached by Eusebio Di Francesco (who also scored with Camarda in the final, but the goal was annulled for offside) to look with optimism at the last three days of the championship.

The hosts were not satisfied with Leris’s goal at 56′, on the development of a bang and rebound in the box, useful to equalize the initial lead signed four minutes earlier by Banda, to close a fast restart. Cheddira’s goal, in fact, arrived at 65′ still at the end of a restart, was defended with the teeth until the end (deserves reporting, in this regard, a resounding save by Falcone on Piccinini at 74′) and in fact breaks any ambition of Pisa, which with this defeat goes to -14 from the same Lecce fourth-last, formalizing the relegation.

Hellas Verona also officially relegates: the Gialloblù team, after seven consecutive years in Serie A, goes down to the cadetteria despite not playing finding itself at -13 from Lecce with 12 points potentially conquerable until the end of its championship.

For Lecce, which extends to three the series of consecutive matches with at least one point after the 0-0 against Fiorentina and Hellas Verona, however, one cannot yet speak of salvation achieved: in fact, there remain the matches against Juventus and Genoa at home, interspersed with the away match at the Mapei Stadium against Sassuolo, in which the Salento team cannot leave anything to chance, especially if Cremonese, engaged on Monday against Lazio, should replicate today’s result of the Giallorossi.

Pisa, on the other hand, says goodbye to Serie A after only one year: a wretched season for the Tuscan Nerazzurri, victorious on only two occasions out of thirty-five matches (1-0 against Cremonese on November 7, 3-1 against Cagliari on March 15), signaling themselves among other things in a negative way for being the only team not to have won away and for being the only team to have conceded, so far, at least 60 goals.