Since 1992 he has been a collaborator of “Il Messaggero”, since 2009 he has collaborated with the “Gazzetta dello Sport”. He starts out writing about baseball, then gives in to the tentacles of football.
It is not the defeat nor the size of the score but rather Latina’s performance in Benevento that suggests concern in view of the last match of the championship, next Saturday, at the Francioni against Taranto.
In Campania, a Latina in an emergency took the field and it showed. However, we saw a confused team, even defenseless and involuted in the second half. It is as if the beautiful victory over Foggia had emptied the Nerazzurri of any motivation, since then three defeats which have jeopardized the objective of seventh place, which has now become a goal which depends on Francioni’s result but is also strongly conditioned by the outcomes of the Crotone and Giugliano commitments.
In Benevento little was possible, not even that little was done. The impression is that beyond the emergency, the championship today demands payment of the pledge for the many (too many?) risks taken up to now by the coach Fountain. When risks are perpetuated over time they become challenges and challenges are won or lost, there are no half measures. Fountain at the moment he is losing them, winning on Saturday against Taranto could reverse the outcome of his adventure on the Pontine bench. Riccardi gives the impression of going through a phase of rejection of his new role as midfielder, the quarters that were purchased to make the fifths (see Herculaneum, Crecco) continue to not guarantee continuity in performance, the attacking midfielders pay for some time spent as a winger, some as a second striker, some as a midfielder. Too many men out of role for the team to have solid tactical depth, beyond the contingent state of emergency.
A precarious state made loser by the continuous individual errors that above all call into question the defense, now lost: Marino and Guadagno on the second goal, De Santis on the third, Vona on the rigor of poker, a direct consequence of the bottom-up approach.
Those who point out that the important thing is to reach the play-offs are right, regardless of positioning in the standings. A truth that becomes very partial if seen in the perspective of the objective set by the company: improving last year’s ranking. What difference do you want a location to make? He does it, and how he does it. The fan can also give up dreaming and decide to embrace the policy of small steps followed by the club, but the steps, even if short, must be taken forward and not backward, otherwise where is the credibility of the project?
