Given what happened against the regular season champions, Castellana Grotre, Crema has the right to believe in its chances. Tomorrow night, it will face the very strong team of Roma, led by Poey and Portuondo, in the first encounter of the league final. So far, Crema has had two poor performances in the capital.

“This is a final and we can’t afford to play badly” warned coach Monti, though. “The Blues are facing another ‘mission impossible’ – added sport director Michele Rota – given that Roma was nicely put together by their staff aiming to go up”.