Chapter 24 The winning streak ends

On the afternoon of April 4, the 20 games of the 38th round of Serie B started at the same time. Sassuolo faced Bari at home, and Novara also faced Modena at home.

All of Italy is paying attention to these two games, because at this time, whoever makes a mistake in the game means that they may fall behind in the key battle.

Although Serie B maintains a one-game-a-week rhythm for most of the season, and the intensity of the games is not very high, at this stage of the season, the players have more or less problems, especially some Iron main force.

Maybe they haven't had any physical problems yet, but they must be very tired mentally.After all, this kind of protracted tug-of-war is the most torturous thing.

In addition, the opponents of both teams are not weak. Bari is ranked eighth in the league and Modena is ranked ninth. There is still hope of qualifying for the promotion play-offs. Therefore, the game is not easy for both teams.

Especially Novara. Although they had won 20 consecutive league victories before, and they looked scary and the players were very excited, in fact most of the players were exhausted to the extreme.

There is an idiom that best describes their current state: at the end of their strength!

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In the match against Modena, both sides played very anxiously in the first half, and the 0:0 score never changed.

In the second half, amid the cheers of the home fans, Novara Jia Qiyu launched a fierce attack on Modena's goal, but Modena failed to prevent an efficient and fast counterattack in the 54th minute of the game, led by their forward Simone Gonz. Scored a single goal and took the lead.

The Piola Stadium fell into dead silence for an instant.

The fans' eyes were full of confusion.

In their view, Novara was originally besieging Modena and almost pinning the opponent in the penalty area. Just when the goal was about to come, in the blink of an eye, the opponent counterattacked and the score fell behind.

This psychological gap is really too big!

Will the team's twenty-game winning streak end today?

Will Novara be double-killed by Modena?

The owners of Novara, members of the De Salvo family, were also in the stands. Seeing the team falling behind, they also had disappointed looks on their faces.

However, just when the team was in dire straits again, Bruno stood up again and led Novara to launch a desperate counterattack.

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When the referee blew the final whistle, the entire Piola Stadium seemed to turn into a sea of celebration, and more than 10,000 Novara fans fell into a crazy celebration.

The fans in the stands were like a rolling crowd. They sang Novara's team anthem in unison with great force and deafening force. The scene was very lively and spectacular.

More than 10,000 fans worked together to create this scene that was unforgettable and made opponents shudder.

In the boardroom, two members of the De Salvo family, Novara's boss, felt this shocking scene deeply.

"We can beat any opponent!" Club General Manager Giaretta said with a proud smile, while pointing to the big red scoreboard, which recorded the score of this game.

2: 1!

This is the final result of this game!

Bruno scored a goal in the 67th and 89th minutes of the second half, helping Novara beat Modena 2:1, extending the team's winning streak to 21 games, while also avoiding the team being defeated, and in Sassuolo, who also defeated Bari 2:1 in this round, retains the hope of winning the championship.

"Although we don't understand football, I feel the respect, victory and passion. This is an amazing team." A member of De Salvo couldn't help but praise from the heart.

Another person kept nodding and said: "It's so shocking. The last game against Sassuolo shocked me, but I didn't expect that tonight would be even crazier, whether it was the players on the court or the people in the stands. The fans are unforgettable.”

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In the last game of April, Novara fans hope that the team will continue to write miracles, because in the first game of the 4th round of Serie B on Friday night, Sassuolo was upset away from home with a score of 39:1. Lost to Modena, who was defeated by Novara in the last round.

During the game, Sassuolo took the lead early in the 37th minute of the first half, but Modena forward Matteo Admani scored two goals in the 75th and 90th minutes of the second half, and the game ended in seconds. Sassuolo.

<divclass="contentadv">In this way, if Novara can defeat Padua in the away game, they can overtake Sassuolo in the standings and reach first place!

Novara fans are very confident because in the first round against Padua, Novara defeated their opponent 3:1.

After the game started, everything seemed to be developing as planned in the hearts of Novara fans.

Although in the 18th minute of the game, Padua's 34-year-old striker veteran Emiliano Bonazzoli took the lead and helped Padua take the lead, Novara quickly showed their strong strength, first in the 20th minute. A corner kick attack led to a draw with Padua's Argentine center back Paulo de la Fiore's own goal, and then Zalari scored the go-ahead goal in the 23rd minute.

After falling behind for only 5 minutes, Novara quickly reversed the score.

And, in the 41st minute, Bruno once again assisted Seferovic to score, rewriting the score to 1:3.

International practice is that the home team goes first.

However, when the game entered the second half, things changed suddenly on the field.

In the 52nd minute, Padua's Brazilian forward Diego Farias quickly regained a victory for Padua.

Subsequently, the two sides started a fierce battle on the court, until the game entered stoppage time, the score on the court was still 2:3, with Novara leading away from home.

However, just when Padua fans had accepted that Novara defeated them at home and won 22 consecutive victories in Serie B, Padua's small winger Coutolo, who had just come on as a substitute, was defeated by Padua. In Dova's last attack, he tore open Novara's defense with a dazzling continuous breakthrough and sent the ball into the goal.

The Yuganin Stadium instantly erupted, and 30,000 Padua fans roared with thunderous cheers.

No one thought that Novara's twenty-one consecutive victory would be ended by them!

Is it true that there is reincarnation in the way of heaven, and Novara's winning streak started with them in Padua, and will now end with them in Padua?

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While the Padua fans were in revelry, about two thousand Novara fans who came with the team to the away game were in extreme pain.

A day earlier, many of them had laughed happily when Sassuolo was beaten by Modena.

At that time, no one thought that the same thing would happen to them a day later.

The Novara players were also stunned. They also did not expect that the referee was about to blow the whistle to end the game, and their victory was just gone!

3 points become 1 point, and the top position is naturally gone.

Will this be the direct reason why Novara ultimately lost the championship?

Especially the vice-captain Rudy, who failed to guard Cutolo and let the opponent speed up, and finally scored the ball past three people in a row, fell to his knees in pain and buried his face deeply in the turf. .

If the team really misses the league championship this season because of this conceding goal, then he will definitely regret it for the rest of his life.

Bruno was also disappointed, but he quickly reacted and pulled his teammates up one by one.

The referee has not yet blown the whistle to end the game, and the game must continue.

However, Novara failed to create a miracle after all, because the referee blew the three full-time whistles immediately after they restarted the ball, without giving Novara any time to attack.

Novara's winning streak has stopped at the number 21.