Bari-Ternana is a match valid for the first leg of the Serie B playout and is played on Thursday at 8:30 p.m.: odds, predictions, live TV and streaming.
Over 30,000 spectators to pull Bari out of the abyss. The “biancorossi” are in serious danger of relegation to C and will need all the support of their warm crowd to beat Ternana in the first leg of the Serie B playout. So that they travel to Umbria next week with two out of three results at their disposal. The Rossoverdi, in fact, thanks to the two extra points collected in the regular season would be saved even with two draws. Therefore, in the event of a tie, neither overtime nor penalties are expected.
For the Galletti, what just ended was a disastrous regular season. Bari has changed as many as four coaches – today on the bench is former Primavera coach Federico Giampaolo – but no one has been able to find the right cure for a team built to aim for that Serie A only touched last year – you will all remember Pavoletti’s goal in full recovery in the playoff final with Cagliari – and that instead ended up struggling to maintain the category. Crucial were the three useful results in the last three days, especially the 2-0 win against Brescia last Friday, scored by Sibilli and captain Di Cesare. Ternana also closed on a crescendo, but the two successes against Catanzaro and Feralpisalò – both obtained by a narrow margin and without conceding goals – were not enough to avoid the playout and win direct salvation. Too many ups and downs for the young team coached by Roberto Breda, which, in any case, on the road scored almost the same points as those collected at home (22 vs. 21).
Bari-Ternana: the latest lineup news
Giampaolo seems intent on confirming the eleven that beat Brescia on the last day of the regular season: a 4-2-3-1 with Achik, Acampora and Sibilli behind the only forward Nasti.
In Ternana, Casasola returns from disqualification but there won’t be many changes for Breda either, who will rely on the men who got the better of Catanzaro and Feralpisalò. In attack, baby Distefano is confirmed.
The prediction
The previous two season’s fixtures tell us of a scoreless draw in Terni and a 3-1 Bari victory at the San Nicola. The feeling is that also this time the boost of the Apulian facility can make the difference in a challenge with very high tension that the “biancorossi” just can’t afford to make a mistake in order not to be then forced to do the feat in Umbria. Bari slightly favored in a match in which the number of total goals is likely to be less than three.
The probable formations of Bari-Ternana
BARI (4-2-3-1): Pissardo; Pucino, Di Cesare, Vicari, Ricci; Maiello, Benali; Achik, Acampora, Sibilli; Nasti.
TERNANA (3-5-1-1): Vitali; Casasola, Dalle Mura, Lucchesi; Favasuli, Luperini, Amatucci, Faticanti, Carboni; Pereiro; Di Stefano.
POSSIBLE RESULT: 1-0
