The championship ends with incredible verdicts. The failure of Allegri and Spalletti and the celebration of Gasperini and Fabregas. All on a Sunday of shame for Italian football.
A sensational, shocking and beautiful ending. Roma returns to the Champions League where they had been missing for seven years, Como enters history for the first time, the great Juventus and Milan lick their wounds because they will have to start again from the Europa League. A huge failure that of Max Allegri and Luciano Spalletti, a missed objective that has repercussions on the present and future of two clubs that will have to deal with a flop that costs tens of millions of euros.
The biggest surprise, on a Sunday in which Italian football was forced to return to shame for the deeds of the Turin derby, was the Milan’s defeat at San Siro against a Cagliari who no longer had anything to ask of the championship. Rossoneri without energy, physical and psychological, come back despite the immediate advantage and then accompanied to the door of the Europe that counts by the anger and frustration of an incredulous people. In the end, the rejection was deserved because the Rossoneri’s second round was so negative that it seemed unreal: not even the shock of the success at Marassi changed the fate of a team that arrived in the spring deflated. Mortal fault for those who had the advantage of being able to manage the entire season with only the championship as a reference.
Milan ends up behind the board together with Juventus who didn’t even have the chance to rebel against their fate. The victories of Roma and Como prevented Spalletti from making any comeback on an evening in which a depressing spectacle was staged in and around Grande Torino: the clashes between ultras factions, the ambulance sirens and the rushes to the hospital, the desire of the curves not to play and then a derby that said very little. A shame for everyone. Juventus will have to re-found, yet another Year Zero in its recent history; the next few days will tell by relying on which hands.
The other side of the coin is the stunning joy of Rome and Como. Once the issues of Trigoria were settled, when everything seemed compromised, Gian Piero Gasperini succeeded in giving the Friedkins the Champions League they had never visited. The Giallorossi are back after seven years, driven by Malen’s goals (14). who made the difference in the second part of the championship and was decisive, even if he missed a penalty, also in Verona. It’s a turning point: until now the American owners had had to limit themselves because they were always outside the richest Europe, now they will be able to really develop a competitive project at the highest level.
And then the tale of Como. The first time in the cups is directly from the main door of the Champions League. We just need to bow before Fabregas and his band of talented guys, built with big investments but made to grow by a craftsman on the bench who has forged ahead. Twice Como seemed to have missed the appointment with the leap in quality and twice they found it again. Applause and curtain call.
