Making a virtue out of necessity. This time yet another “change of season” could represent a precious “resource” for Bari, with a view to the strategy to be implemented in the direct clash for salvation against Cosenza. In the match on Calabrian soil, on Saturday at 4.15pm, the red and white attack will have to deal with the certain absences of Puscas and Diaw: the former underwent surgery on his fractured left hand (recovery will be attempted for Bari-Parma); the second grappling with the effects of another relapse of his chronic back pain. Mister Giampaolo will only have Nasti, a former player of the match, available for the role of center forward.
Bari puts the arrows
The new structure (4-2-3-1), already seen at work in the last match against Pisa, will lend a hand to the former Primavera coach, which will allow us to focus above all on the weapon of the attacking wingers. Paradoxically, despite the mini emergency, three of the four men who will make up the attack will almost certainly be confirmed. These are Sibilli, in the role of his favorite attacking midfielder, and the wingers, Kallon and Morachioli. Aramu and Achik are the possible alternatives for the wide game.
The former Renate chasing the goal
Morachioli has made 21 league appearances. The marking box is still dry. The moment, dictated once again by contingency, is helping to give confidence and playing time to the class of 2000: the 23-year-old from Liguria has started 5 of the last 8 games. A continuity, invoked by popular acclaim, which the former Spezia player had only found in the first championship matches, for the same reasons. This is the period between the 2nd and 5th matchdays, when Morachioli was deployed in the starting eleven due to the serious injuries that had affected Menez and Diaw. Same problems therefore, but different module, given that seven months ago Mignani, the “putative father” of the 4-3-1-2, was still on the Bari bench.
Achik on the launch pad
Even the former Audace Cerignola, despite starting from the bench, can carve out a leading role in the last four events of the championship. The 23-year-old Moroccan saw the pitch again in the matches against Como and Pisa, after three consecutive benches. In the match against the Tuscans he took over in the second half, in the 75th minute, in place of Kallon, taking over the right wing baton from the Sierra Leone striker.
The wild card Aramu
After his reinstatement to the list, following Menez’s termination due to injury, the 28-year-old from Piedmont is working at full capacity. The former Genoa player against the Nerazzurri last Saturday took over from Morachioli, twenty minutes from the end of the match. It was the fourth consecutive appearance for the attacking midfielder. In view of the match against Cosenza, Aramu could, in theory, also allow another solution for Giampaolo: moving to the left or even as central striker for Sibilli. A useful card, to be evaluated perhaps from the perspective of the 90 minutes, with the aim of celebrating the first goal with the red and white shirt.
The return of Akpa-Chukwu
The 18 year old Belgian, barring any surprises, will be brought back into the squad 5 months after the last match. An inevitable choice due to the absences of Puscas and Diaw. It will be the tenth call-up for the attacker, who, curiously, in view of his return to the first team will “embrace” his former Primavera manager on the bench again. Chukwu’s season is a story of paradox: two appearances in the first 14 games of the championship, favored by the lack of central attackers, a precious goal in the first leg against Pisa (decisive for the 1-1 final), and then disappeared from the radar, also due to the three reversals of the technical guide.
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