Play-off Spezia-Verona to Reggio Emilia

Turnaround on the venue of the play-off salvation between Spezia and Verona: the challenge to stay in Serie A will be played at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia and not at the Dacia Arena in Udine, as emerged yesterday. The decision was confirmed by the Lega Serie A with a note: the challenge will start at 20.45 on Sunday 11 June. In the evening, the modalities of ticket sales and the sectors of the Mapei stadium available should be indicated. A partial solution to ensure public order is not ruled out. Just considerations of public order had sunk the hypothesis of playing in Friuli. To raise more than one perplexity the Federation of Police Unions who had pointed out how the fans should have "traveled the same stretch of motorway of the A4", in the words of its secretary Valter Mazzetti. "The highway and its many staging points risk becoming a battleground." From Liguria there were also political protests against the choice of a destination much further from La Spezia than from Verona. Contrary positions taken by the president of the Liguria Region Giovanni Toti, the mayor Pierluigi Peracchini and questions in parliament by the deputy Andrea Orlando and in the regional council signed by Davide Natale