PREVIEW - Granarolo Arci

Dunfermline may be forgiven for thinking they all but blew their chances to make the top-two in their league group following the slip ups against Anni Settanta and WLF Genova, two games out of which they only managed one point before going back to winning ways against Zena Caput Mundi.
In fact, had they taken maximum points from those ties, The Pars would now find themselves sitting second, with Massacroni having surprisingly lost to A Selesiun on Monday night.
Regrets are no good to any team, though, so all Dunfermline need to do now is to regroup and try to get 9 points from their remaining 3 regular season fixtures, including the crunching match against Massacroni a week on Sunday, and see where that'll take them, knowing well that in the worst case scenario they'll sit 4th come mid-April, when the finals will kick-start.

For Sunday's tie against Granarolo Arci, Dunfermline will be without captain Aldo Marletta, who will serve a one-match-ban following his 3rd caution of the season, while goalkeeper Marco Semino will be given a rest. Marco Cantelli's involvement, finally, is yet to be verified as he may be away on working duties.

The squad should therefore look like the following

G: 1 Marco Semino
D: 8 Davide Filippi, 10 Fabio Frassinelli, 17 Fausto Crosetti
M: 2 Fabio Boccaccio, (6 Marco Cantelli), 11 Matteo Bovalino, 20 Mattia Maneschi
F: 9 Alberto Buccianti

MANAGER: Leonardo Perugini
NOT INVOLVED: Marco Semino, Gianluca Lanata; Alberto Pittaluga; Aldo Marletta (ban), Roberto Strano, Daniele De Maria, Enrico Miroglio, Davide Ducco, Flavio Lenza; Stefano Ganduglia, Federico Gallo


PREVIOUS ENCOUNTERS - The only time Dunfermline and Granarolo Arci have locked horns before, it was when the Pars emerged 3-0 victors back in December 2008. A hat-trick marked Boccaccio's debut with the Scots.

2008/2009: Dunfermline - Granarolo Arci 3-0 (Boccaccio 3)


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