In Brescia, against a team fighting for second place, where the star of Miro Bilan shines, the last to win a trophy in a Dinamo jersey: the 2019 Italian Super Cup. On Sunday, Sassari bids farewell to Serie A after 16 years.
The Sassari team has already been relegated, and coach Veljko Mrsic is trying to make sense of a game that makes no sense for the white-and-blues: "Unfortunately, we have nothing left to play for in the standings, but we still have a duty to find the energy to compete. This must be our goal: to give it our all and try to improve until the very end."
After seven straight defeats and a championship wasted over the last two months, we should at least hope for a surge of pride to avoid ending the season with the shame of a record-breaking streak. Perhaps the lack of pressure will allow the talent of a Banco team that in early March even seemed poised to make the playoffs, before revealing a psychological fragility and disarming defensive resilience.