For Torres the exciting season ended on Saturday, with a 0-0 draw against Benevento.
A haunted match: dominated, one-sided, where between goals disallowed, saves by the guest goalkeeper Paleari and a more than questionable refereeing - with the penalty denied in the 96th minute which at the beginning the referee Galipò seemed to have granted - the rossoblù are not managed to overturn the 1-0 lead from the first leg and continue their Serie B dream.
«We did something unique: I saw people with tears in their eyes, in Sassari the pleasure of seeing Torres returned», the words of Tore Pinna, today technical collaborator of Torres but also record holder of appearances with the Sassari team, during " L'Informatore Sportivo" on Radiolina with Lorenzo Piras . «I went back to twenty years ago, we created a hard core with all the components that did an amazing job». Despite having created much more than Benevento, the rossoblù failed to score in the two matches : «Unfortunately this is football. However, we have done something exceptional: we are growing, we have skipped a few steps."
The recriminations. During the Radiolina broadcast, where the Unione Sarda journalist Giampiero Marras also spoke, Pinna focused at length on the highly questionable decisions of the referee Galipò. «With a warm mind I would have said many things, with a cold mind I think that even the referee realized that he was having a bad day. Unfortunately it caused problems for us: there was also another penalty, for a handball. It was a game where the season was played out, you can't make mistakes like that. Especially with VAR." Pinna played at Torres from 1998 to 2006, then from 2016 to 2020.
And he is convinced that in the next season the rossoblù can grow further: «I am convinced of it, there is a strong club behind it. We are all growing together, we want our audience to become even bigger throughout the year, not just during the playoffs. And I want to thank the guys who have always followed us." And on Andrea Zaccagno, who now defends the goal like Pinna did: «He did very well, we are working perfectly with his deputy Danilo Petriccione and the historic Pierpaolo Garau».
