Three games to go in the championship of Serie A 2023/2024. Raffaele Palladino’s Monza is preparing to close a two-year journey that has brought exceptional results, culminating with a double salvation obtained without ever “fear of going backwards”. The third to last stop will be this evening at the stadium “Artemio Franchi” of Florence: appointment this evening at 8.45pm for the match against the hosts Viola.
“It will be a very stimulating match” declared the coach from Monza in the press conference “We face a strong teamhealthy, fresh from qualification for the Conference League final. We will be “in their home”, in front of a large audience in an atmosphere that will be beautiful. We have a lot of motivation to do well and try to put them in difficulty: we can’t wait to get on the pitch”
Where is the victory?
Six games and three alone points in the streak that the red and whites have drawn from the home victory over Cagliari onwards: never under Palladino management era missed success for so many rounds:
“The ranking is “right” at this point in the championship. I am always of the opinion that the points won during a tournament are deserved. There are games in which you score points without playing, others in which you deserve more but you end up empty-handed. If we analyze the last six challengesprobably we would have deserved a few more points. However, let’s focus on what could be and not on what could have been. They are missing three games, we will try to get nine points!”
The choices
For the match scheduled in a few hours, mister Italian – which will most likely say goodbye to Florence at the end of the tournament – should be implemented a certain rotation of his to allow better energy management. In goal it should be the turn of again Christensen, despite the mistake made in Verona. In defense there is room for Martinez Fourth and to one between Milenkovic (warned off) e Ranieri in the center, with Kayode on the right track e Biraghi or Parisi on the left-handed one. Duncan and Lopez in midfield they should be preferred to Arthur and Mandragora; the attacking midfielders in the 4-2-3-1 “mirror” with Monza will be Nico Gonzalez, Barak and Castrovilli, given the less than perfect conditions of Bonaventura and Ikone. Belotti out forward, he will be there from the 1st minute Nzola.
In Monza Mister Palladino could put up a defense with Birindelli, Izzo, Pablo Marì and Kyriakopoulos to protect By Gregory; Gagliardini and Bondo in the midfield to support Pessina, Colpani and one between Zerbin and Dany Motagiven that Daniel Maldini is still unavailable. Offensive reference will be Djuric.
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