Salernitana, the “wise” Sepe drags the team

Restart tests. From a separated person at home who even at the last dance with the garnet jersey could not help but stage the last provocative reactions of his experience at Salernoto another who after the decision to remain in the shadow of Arechi has already begun to try to mend a relationship that seemed worn out. For a Boulaye Day who is just waiting to take off the jacket with the seahorse on his chest forever, a “wise man” Luigi Sepe, that perhaps the most important saves of the night of the Cup were made off the pitch. After returning from the loan at Lazio, following a retreat spent on the fringes of the squad, the Neapolitan goalkeeper, convinced to stay by his own admission by the words of Martusciello (which launched him steadily in Serie A), but above all by the desire to try to win a challenge that already promises to be difficult, he spoke as a leader at the end of the match.

«I was a captain after Fazio, chosen by the team, not by the club. With the manager and management at the time of Nicola he rewarded himself Mazzocchi because he was in the running for a call-up to the national team, but last year I didn’t want to leave“. An admission that rhymes with the conciliatory messages that followed the timid applause, reciprocated by the Curva Sud, shortly before the kick-off. «I’m sorry about what happened with Dia, these are dynamics that are difficult to manage, when he scored after the cooling-break I reminded him of what I felt the last game I played here, it happened the same. There are applauses and whistles with people who can do anything. Now it’s up to us».

With the Dia chapter filed away, Sepe, who took to the field with the captain’s armband on his arm, couldn’t help but praise the team spirit seen against Spezia, despite the difficulties. «People have to be close to us and I’m not saying this because they are the captain but because this team is fighting with heart and is training well, the boys never give up.». Measured, thoughtful words, which are worth their weight in gold with the decisive save from the spot during the penalty shootout, when he hypnotized Large from eleven meters putting a mortgage on the passage of the round. Probably not the most important intervention of a hot cup evening, one that could sanction the definitive restart between a now ex separated at home who aims to take back Salernitana and the granata people.