It would be easy, at this time of the season, to let ourselves become despondent. Results are not smiling on Lecce, and episodes always seem to condemn Giampaolo’s team. Against Roma, only a dubious episode on Baschirotto steered the match on the Capitoline tracks, just as the penalty awarded to Udinese weighed on the result. But now there is no more time to brood over refereeing errors or bad luck, and perhaps it would be better if those who sit on the right side of the microphone did not do so either; crying over episodes has never led anywhere.
Lecce must react and it must do so with the support of everyone. The calendar places before it a fundamental crossroads: the challenge against Venezia at the Via del Mare. A match that can be worth an entire season. Now there is no need for criticism about strikers who score little, Pantaleo Corvino’s market choices or the club’s budgets. On the field there do not go the accounts or the opinions of fans on social media: on the field there go the players, the jersey, the soul of an entire city that cannot afford to remain silent.
The last fifteen minutes against Roma lacked the competitive ferocity that must characterize those fighting for salvation. But the decisive push must also come from the stands. The Via del Mare must be an impregnable fortress, a bedlam that drags the team beyond its limits that by now appear evident. Social media must stop being a weapon of defeatism, also because most of the time those who write or speak maybe are not even season ticket holders at the stadium and the Via del Mare has seen it on TV for a long time, despite the fact that they may live just a few meters away from it: the players read, they sense the mood of the square and now more than ever they need to feel supported.
Sunday will be a battle. It will not be a beautiful game, it will be hard, dirty, painful. But in these moments you can see who really has the will and determination to save themselves. Lecce is still master of its destiny, eight days separate the Giallorossi from the goal. What is needed now is unity, we need a city rowing compactly toward a single goal: Serie A. The time for controversy is over. Now it is time to fight. All together.
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