The big day is upon us. A few more meters to climb: the hardest, the most inaccessible, the most unpredictable.

Prata di Pordenone already sits in first class on the direct flight to the A2 series with a seat at his side for the reserved winner tomorrow evening. The charm of the reunion between the two Cinderellas of this season, however, has to deal with a “third wheel” who has all the suggestive, legitimate intentions of ruining the party for Vecchi and his companions.

So far two comparisons of the highest level on which the result of the field factor has not had the slightest impact. A fact that makes the wait even more anxious and goes beyond any prediction, with all due respect to superstition. One certainty, the setting of the PalaGrotta is back as a protagonist as in the old days, as in the occasions that really count: “On Saturday we did a great job – said coach Massimiliano Ortenzi -. We did not deserve to end the season in front of our fans with a result like that of race 1, we gathered together and we have a hard time in the most difficult moment, going back to channeling the challenge on the right tracks. Now we have the opportunity to complete what we have started. We want to end this championship in the way we have faced it up to now, as protagonists, and to do so we will have to give everything we have. We must be free from any conditioning and take the field to play our game, one point at a time.

One step after another, inch by inch, at the push of an entire palas, at the push of an entire country. “Was it true glory? Posterity will judge…”