“Catanzaro, a run-off in attack. Between Biasci and Ambrosino, Iemmello’s partner”, headlines the Southern Gazette.
Vivarini is grappling with a serious doubt about his lineup ahead of tomorrow evening’s match.
The experienced host who scores regularly or the young talent who is hungry for goals? One of the doubts that Vivarini is dealing with concerns the striker to partner with Iemmello: is it better to focus on Biasci or reward Ambrosino again?
It’s a question that the coach has been carrying with him for a few days, but if at the beginning of the week the former seemed to be a clear favorite because the latter had emerged battered from the match against Cremonese, now the ballot is decidedly more in the balance. And intriguing too, given that both competitors look amazing. Biasci is the master of the house, in the sense that he was born and raised in Pisa. His score against the Nerazzurri is seven games with three wins, as many defeats, a draw and a goal scored, when he wore the Carrarese shirt (9 November 2017).
In the past he has defined himself as an “atypical Pisan” and his football career certainly has something to do with this: after the failure of the Nerazzurri in 2009, he completed his youth training with the Allievi and Primavera of Livorno, a bit like go directly from Catanzaro to Cosenza or from Genoa to Samp. “I still have many friends in the corner (in Pisa’s corner, ed.)” Biasci had underlined before the first leg match to the Calabrian Rai newspaper: “When I score I can never control myself, so we’ll see what I’ll do if I succeed.”
It seemed he wanted to get ahead a few hours before a match that Catanzaro would have won 2-0 with Biasci starting after the goals scored in the series in Cosenza and Palermo (two of his ten in the championship). That match at the beginning of December, however, would have been unlocked by Ambrosino in the “Flash” version: just 33 seconds would have passed between his replacement with the injured Iemmello and his first goal in the Giallorossi shirt. That scratch from a thoroughbred striker was given with all the anger possible by someone who until then – also due to an injury – had joined in late and had logically received little space.
One round (even then fourth to last matchday) and almost five months later Ambrosino has scored only one more goal, but his growth has been clear and it seems only a matter of moments that he will start to strike again. The twenty-year-old who arrived on loan from Napoli was among the top players in the successes of Cittadella, Cosenza, against Bari, in Modena, and by far the best against Cremonese (until he went out due to an ankle mistreated by an opponent).
In short, he has been questioning the hierarchies of the department for two months and in doing so he has also increased his companion’s hunger. Biasci and Ambrosino have different characteristics, they can easily play together, but tomorrow evening, at least at the beginning, one will watch the other from the bench: Catanzaro will draw resources from it in any case […].
