Como Laying Foundations For The Future After Clinching Serie A Survival

When their Serie A season began with a four-match winless streak, nobody would have dreamed that Como could win four consecutive games to achieve safety with four rounds remaining.
Nobody except for their coach, Cesc Fabregas.
"The pitch is where you have to speak," Fabregás told us last year as Como embarked on their first Serie A campaign for 21 years.
But after defeating Monza, Torino, Lecce and Genoa throughout April - the club's longest winning run in Serie A since 1952 - Como secured a second consecutive season in the Italian top flight, unthinkable for a newly promoted club.
Mathematical confirmation
The 1-0 victory over Genoa on Sunday catapulted Como into 11th place, 17 unassailable points above the drop zone with 12 points left to play for.
"I'm happy with everything today," Fabregas told Tuttosport at full-time. "At the start of the season, we missed out on so many points because we were always missing that little bit. I knew that this was a journey, and those last-minute defeats were needed."