From Pierotti to Krstovic. Thus ended the maneuver that led to Lecce’s goal in last Saturday’s match against Monza. The action,…
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Yes because since, just over a month ago, Luca Gotti was called to get the Giallorossi machine back in motion, both Krstovic and Pierotti signed up to that group of players revitalized from the change on the bench. In fact, alongside a Gallo who is establishing himself as one of the best left-backs of the tournament, a Dorgu on the launching pad since he was deployed in a more advanced position, a Blin who has returned to the protagonist in the midfield, they were the attacker Montenegrin and the Argentine footballer to carve out an important space for themselves.
As for Krstovic, the number 9 was decisive in Lecce’s last two outings, scoring, as mentioned, the goal for the momentary advantage against Monza and recording what is his only assist of the season so far a week earlier against Sassuolo. The player’s dedication in the defensive phase has never been in question, but this goal scored three months after the last one (against Genoa thanks to an opponent’s complicit deflection) certainly does justice to an attacker who always works for the team .
Since Gotti arrived, the Montenegrin striker has also been able to benefit from a new conformation of the Giallorossi attack, with the Venetian coach who has decided to permanently support him Little ones. Playing with two big men up front allows Krstovic not to be the only point of reference that opposing defenses have to pay attention to. And the former Dunajská Streda seems to take advantage of this greater freedom. From a tactical point of view, Krstovic appears less isolated in the offensive phase. This greater involvement of the boy from Golubovci in the Giallorossi’s maneuver is confirmed by one piece of data: if we look at the key passes collected by the Sics company (i.e. those passes that allow at least one opponent’s defensive line to be overcome) Krstovic produced an average of 2.6 in the five games with Gotti as coach (he missed the match against Empoli due to disqualification, ed.), compared to an average of one per game in the previous matches played.
Coming to Pierotti, the Argentine arrived in January to give an extra solution to Lecce’s attack. The former player of Colon however, it soon transformed into a sort of mysterious object, practically disappearing from radar. Under the new technical management Pierotti continues to be used sparingly (just twenty minutes scored in the last four matches) but he is proving decisive. His introductions from the bench were in fact important both against Monza and two weeks earlier against Empoli, when Lecce’s number 50 stubbornly won a ball which was then transformed intoassist served to Sansone for the winning goal.
In this sense Pierotti is transforming into what in English is called a supersub (super substitute), that is to say a player who, coming off the bench, has a positive impact on his team. Not a sixth man like in basketball, given that Pierotti is never the first choice when making substitutions, but still an element that in some way could retrace the footsteps of what Anselmo Robbiati did with Claudio Ranieri’s Fiorentina in the championship 1996-97. The popular Spadino (this is the nickname of the Viola player) was in fact able to score 11 goals in that tournament, proving decisive practically every time he entered the pitch. Despite having completely different characteristics from Gigliato, Pierotti aims to have a similar effect in Lecce. And this by playing only a handful of minutes per game. Who knows what the Argentine could do if he had at least a quarter of an hour at his disposal at a time.
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