An embarrassing Palermo, now only a shadow of its former self, also lost in La Spezia. Not even the Mignani treatment served to shake up this team, built at the beginning of the season with high-level names, experienced people and many in a superior category with very respectable salaries, which should have allowed them to play a top championship or at least in the top positions, and who are instead settling for a very sad sixth place (perhaps).
Since Mignani’s arrival there have only been 3 draws and 2 defeats, an absolutely deficient scoreboard which establishes the failure of the overall project up to this moment. And it is an even bigger failure if you consider the almost two years spent building a team that should have aspired to promotion, but which currently needs to be rebuilt. It’s clear that the play offs will begin soon, but it’s equally clear that this Palermo team doesn’t have a long way to go and promotion to Serie A remains just a mirage.
1-0 defeat, a deserved defeat because they were incapable of reacting as happens more and more often, without an idea of team play, above all without that malice necessary to overturn unfavorable matches or episodes. Any tactical strategy, any change, never changes the substance of things, the inertia of the match, a team absolutely resigned and at the mercy of events.
At the end of the match there was a very strong protest from the Rosanero fans present in the away sector who invited the players to take off their shirts and hand them over, as they were deemed unworthy of wearing it. A very harsh protest which establishes the rift between the square and the team. The shirts taken off by the players and given to the fans were given as gifts by the fans themselves to the children present in the away sector.
Roberto Rubino
the scoreboard
SPICE (3-4-1-2): Zoet; Mateju, Hristov, Nikolaou; Elia, S. Esposito Nagy, Vignali; Green (74′ P. Esposito); Falcinelli (58′ Bandinelli), Di Serio (74′ Kouda). Trainer: D’Angelo.
PALERMO (3-5-2): Pigliacelli; Diakité (84′ Traorè), Lucioni, Ceccaroni; Buttaro (61′ Ranocchia), Segre, Gomes (80′ Henderson), Di Francesco, Lund; Soleri, Brunori (80′ Mancuso). Trainer: Mignani.
Referee: Pezzuto (Lecce).
Networks: 16′ In Serio.
Ammonites: 29′ S. Esposito, 65′ Vignali, 70′ Ranocchia, 74′ Di Serio, 87′ Mancuso, 90′ Di Francesco, 96′ Henderson.
