The A side Cremonese goes straight to relegation in Italian football. It is the only team that has not yet managed to win any games in the present A series: accumulates 8 draws and 12 defeats, the last against Inter with a brace Lautaro Martínez, and is in last place ten points from safety. His fate seems written.

the b side Cremonese has become a real threat to the giants of football and is dangerously close to the Italian Cup final. the thing is, there is another story being written at the same time and it is that of the Coppa Italia, the local mata-mata competition that gets him killed and killed. This Tuesday he got rid of Roma at the Olimpico and dreams of the impossible. He’s already in the semifinals and aims for more.

José Mourinho rested some of the usual starters, including Paulo Dybala, realizing they were facing an inferior rival and also taking into account that just three days ago they had played against Napoli in the championship. However, Nigerian nationalized Belgian Cryiel Dessers’s penalty goal left the capitalists and Mou in trouble.

In this context, the Portuguese DT In the second half he sent Dybala onto the field, but immediately the Cremonese surprises again with a good offensive action which ended in the net against the Turkish Zeki Çelik. From there, the modest team from Lombardy took refuge in their own field and became (almost) impenetrable. Roma’s draw came only in the 94th minute, when there was no more time: 2-1 and in the semifinal.

In the round of 16 they had shot down another Italian giant, nothing more and nothing less than the Napoli pointer. Given their Serie A standings, Cremonese were guests in that one-game series as well and struck the blow with a heartbreaking win at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium: after starting with a win, Ghana’s Felix Afena-Gyan scored 2-2 against 87′ and then transformed the decisive penalty of the penalties to end up qualifying in an excruciating way in the twelve-step definition.

But the story didn’t start there. Previously, it had to go through two preliminary rounds and knock two Serie A teams out of the way: first, Ternana Calcio 3-2; then, 4-2 in extra time against Modena. A team made to suffer.

Their next rival, for a place in the grand final, will be Fiorentina, another club with a history in Italy. Now it will be round trip: April 5th as a local and the 25th of the same month as a visitor. On the other hand, Inter awaits the winner of Juventus-Lazio, scheduled from 5pm in Turin.

While Serie A seems to have taken a back seat, Cremonese clings to a dream that no longer seems so impossible and adds color to a season that seemed black. They are not satisfied with what has been done, which is already very good, and they want more.