Bordin’s team avoids the descent to Excellence after a panic match “Generous” penalty for Timpone, then draws Cattelan: in the final there is the sentence
S. AMBROGIO DI VALPOLICELLA (VR)
In the final match, Montebelluna catches a well-deserved salvation. In a match that reflected the entire season with the bad luck that characterized the championship and the final goal-saving, the boys of Mr. Bordin won the stay in Serie D with Lukanovic’s goal in the 88th minute, when now the race seemed haunted as Virtus Bolzano had remained even in 9 men.
Montebelluna dominated far and wide, even in the opening minutes of the match but then came the mockery of the disadvantage (with a penalty granted to the opponents very doubtful), yet the reaction arrived, not immediately followed by the goal. So Cattelan, also from the spot, takes care of bringing the game back into balance at the end of the first half. Followed by a second fraction of the game in the South Tyrolean half, an incredible suffering because that ball did not want to go through the door and in the end the superlative play of Fasan that propelled Lukanovic’s goal. A goal that makes the Montebelluna bench explode and the biancocelesti fans who have colored half the stadium rejoice. Coming to the film of the match, in the first 18 minutes Montebelluna has possession of the ball on their side which they cannot achieve. It takes an invention of Arnaldo Kaptina, an overhead kick from the edge of the penalty area, to shake his team and make the first shot on goal of the match, with Bonato lifting the ball and sending it for a corner. In the resulting corner, at 19 ‘, the ball ends up on the arm (attached to the body) of Captain Fabbian who had also been pushed, but for the referee there is no doubt and points to the spot. Timpone takes charge of the joke, pulls left, Bonato guesses but the conclusion is too strong and ends up on the net.
Montebelluna does not give up and immediately resumes the ball of the game, captain Fabbian of the head has two very occasional and the second opportunity, with an incredible save on the Iardino line, triggers the second decisive episode of the race: in the restart of Virtus Bolzano Timpone trims a violent elbow to De Min in the penalty area. The linesman has seen it all, calls the referee who draws the red and grants the penalty. From 11 meters, at 44 ‘, Cattelan shows up who coldly bags and brings his team back into play. At the start of the second half, Virtus Bolzano still loses his head because in the 52nd minute Rizzon gives a punch to Barra: also in this case the assistant intervenes and the referee is forced to expel the South Tyrolean defender. It seems, however, that a bit of fear almost takes over, the frenzy takes over the calm: the biancocelesti create a lot, they make a lot of mistakes and it also takes a bit of his bad luck, with the defense and the goalkeeper of Virtus Bolzano who they work real miracles.
Then Fasan takes matters into his own hands: at 88 ‘Zago recovers the ball and throws it forward quickly losing it, Fasan recovers it and serves Franceschini on the right, Fasan cuts into the area and puts the ball in the middle where there is Lukanovic who he just has to put it in. Thus a very long season had to end, with a salvation played at the last and won at the last but which was deservedly conquered. –