A handful of points for the Azzurri from Zagreb, but Vinatzer is already thinking about redemption on Sunday

Sala and Razzoli save the balance of a very difficult slalom for Theolier's team, Sunday in Adelboden an important opportunity not only for the Gardena ("today I didn't know how to adapt to the snow"). From a WCSL perspective it will be a crucial match for Gross and for "Razzo" himself.

Wednesday 6 January 2021 4 minutes reading time

Few excuses, as he is used to, and think about the next one. Alex Vinatzer put aside the fork gained in the very first part of the opening heat, in today's slalom in Zagreb, and sent out a clear message. “Probably it's the snow conditions on which I have to improve the most, but there is already the next opportunity”. Adelboden, on Sunday with the fourth slalom of this World Cup, is already very close and the Gardena does not want to miss the chance that Chuenisbargli will offer him: today there was the concrete possibility of entering the first sub-group of merit, but the " zero ”means to have dropped again from 8th to 10th place in the WCSL (with Feller and Strasser in front), even if the border represented by Pinturault is not far away, at about sixty points. And with 8 slalom still to be played, 6 of which in the next 25 days, everything is open for the specialty cup, with the Italian leader now 7th with 100 round points behind Manuel Feller. Italy of Theolier who returns from the Sljeme hill with a few points, brought from the 24th place of Tommaso Sala and from the 26th of Giuliano Razzoli, however not trivial considering how much has passed in the last 20 days from Brianza and Reggio. Already thinking towards Adelboden, however, the blue team certainly cannot rest assured from a WCSL perspective: Manfred Moelgg, despite the lack of today's qualification, is 20th, while Simon Maurberger has dropped to 27th place (virtually 26th, with Myhrer the only one to exclude from the list) and Stefano Gross at 29th. For the Fassa player the challenge in Switzerland will be crucial, in the place where in 2015 he obtained his only success in the World Cup. With the 5 points snatched today, Razzoli himself has kept 32nd place, but he will have to conquer a decent placement also in Adelboden to try to get back into the thirty, with the specter of starting in the following classics with a number even higher than 45 .

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