The day is gloomy. The excursion was canceled due to adverse weather conditions. What’s better than an exhilarating match by our favorites led by the reckless Mignani, at 3pm, immediately after lunch and with your pajamas already ironed for your nap? We are playing against a team desperate for points and the pink team’s motivations have so far seemed very similar to those of a sloth competing in the 100 meter dash. We hope we are wrong but the conditions do not seem the best to us
Mignani doesn’t change formation and limits himself to a bit of turnover: Ranocchia continues to start from the bench but Ceccaroni returns and Segre finds space in midfield. The real surprise up front: Soleri from the first minute. Lately he hasn’t been able to make an impact even coming off the bench, like he did before, and so let’s hope he surprises us. In La Spezia there is Mateju and nostalgia overcomes us, but it is only a moment and it passes immediately, at the first stop to chase we don’t really know what.
The turf looks like the floor of the house with the first layer of soap and so, between slips, missed passes and rebounds, the match immediately seems alive. In the fifteenth minute the panache of the rosanero and their usual constant and serious application produced the advantage for Spezia. Lund passes back to opposing striker Di Serio who appears alone in front of Pigliacelli and beats him. And it’s soon evening.
Palermo continues to play as if it were 0-0 and misses passages with the same ease with which a British man goes pub crawling on Saturday after a rough night on Friday. The first half whistle is practically a relief because it brings us closer to the end of yet another torture. We didn’t expect a great reaction from the Palermo players after the defeat against Reggiana, but not this disgusting either.
However, Mignani must be satisfied with what he saw because we return without even a substitution and present the same brilliant eleven of the first 45 minutes. The team’s impotence continues without interruption and only in the fifteenth, as per the schedule, Mignani inserts Ranocchia for Buttaro. The team seems to revive a little but it seems like the classic “ammuina” of Bourbon memory and we never see the goal, not even with the telescope.
Henderson and Mancuso also enter and Mignani lets Brunori out. Then comes Traoré’s usual useless five minutes. The match remains a torment, an interminable torment and the final whistle frees us from the suffering. Palermo loses again, officially becoming the mutual aid bank for teams fighting not to be relegated and beyond.
We are starting to suspect that Mignani was chosen by the club to demonstrate that it was better not to sack Corini and agree with your beloved chroniclers who have always thought that the team was much poorer than what 90% of the coaches in the stands and on the keyboard thought. Doing worse than this is really difficult but let’s not put limits on providence. The team scores goals anyway and has stopped scoring. We’ll play again on Sunday: the better, because the sooner we finish the better!
Pigliacelli 5 – Since Spezia creates little, his teammates think about inventing phenomenal assists to launch their opponents into the goal. Betrayed.
Diakité 3 – At least he used to run, even if not always in a constructive way: now he has decided that the shirt shouldn’t even be put in the washing machine. Ecologist.
(from 40′ st Traoré) sv – The five minutes that the new coach makes him clock out every match must be the result of some hidden contractual clause. 1341 civil code
Lucioni 5 – He does what he can, but what can he? Interrogative.
Ceccaroni 4 – There is little to defend, given that the La Spezia attack doesn’t exist, so why struggle to push forward and not enjoy the spring rain? Relaxed.
Buttaro 3 – We can’t understand what it’s for but it’s certainly our limit. Intellectual honesty (ours).
(from 16′ st Ranocchia) 5 – Even at half serve he shows that he is the only one who, at least, could and would like to do something and, in fact, he is kept on the bench to prevent Palermo from playing a little better (which wouldn’t be difficult). Excluding.
Secrets 5.5 – One of the new coach’s ingenious ideas was his exclusion, with the results we saw. He is resurrected and confirms that he is at least one of those who should always play, if only for the commitment he puts into it, but he certainly needs someone else around who thinks like him. Neglected.
Gomes 2.5 – He leads the Rosanero midfield with the same intensity and speed of movement as a pensioner who admires the subway construction site which has been in progress for ten years. Wait.
(from 35′ st Henderson) 3 – Entering the pitch without touching a ball for 15 minutes, brawl and warning. Fight club.
By Francesco 2.5 – He wanders around the field without even a vague idea of what to do and where he should possibly do it. To his credit, the only shot towards the Palermo goal, which ended up a good couple of meters wide, which earned him half a vote more. Misfit.
Monday 0 – He provided an assist as an amateur player for the Spezia striker, effectively giving the victory to his opponents. Then it just gets worse. Decisive.
Soleri 3 – He runs, fights and throws his arms around but without accomplishing anything and catching a single ball, so much so that he could have participated more successfully in a cross-country race with our friend Fabrizio. Runner.
Brunori 3 – Palermo also sadly sinks into the general nothingness and total confusion that it produces, doing practically nothing. Depressed.
(from 35′ st Mancuso) 3 – As soon as he enters he falls twice and then also finds time to get a warning. Ineffable.
Mignani 1 – Rarely have we seen a substitute coach make a team so clearly worse in terms of results, tactical attitude, individual performances and mental approach to the match. And in fact the statistics place him at the bottom of the special ranking of the 17 dismissals of the season. At least with Corini we enjoyed reading the comments of those who believed that with another coach we would have won the championship by a landslide already in February. Mignanexit.
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