After ten years of Serie A, the Sassuolo fairy tale writes the saddest and most difficult chapter of its recent history. Relegation to Serie B is hard to digest, especially after everything the club has experienced in this long period. With the peak reached in the 2015-2016 season with Di Francesco on the bench: 6th place finish with 61 points, an absolute record with the first historic qualification for the Europa League preliminaries. Since that moment 8 years have passed and frankly the path didn’t seem to have foreseen something so negative. And instead Sassuolo, by virtue of the home defeat against Cagliari and the results of the afternoon, was relegated to Serie B a day before the end of the championship.
The next match against Lazio will be the last in Serie A after a long time. The numbers are merciless and there is little to complain about the sporting result: 29 points in the standings with a balance of just 7 wins, 8 draws and 22 defeats. 74 goals conceded compared to 42 scored. Many mistakes have been made. Even on the market. In the summer the departure of a player like Frattesi was not compensated in the right way and even in January perhaps something more could and should have been done. Although talking later is always easier.