Today’s edition of “Il Secolo XIX” focuses on the match between Palermo and Sampdoria and focuses the spotlight on the defenses.
In this march towards Palermo-Sampdoria, the spotlights are all on the strikers, from Brunori to De Luca, from Mancuso to Borini, from Di Francesco to Esposito… but the championship tells how the offensive balance of the playoff quarter-final on Friday night depends on the defenses. Twelve out of 62, i.e. approximately 20%, were the goals of the Rosanero’s defensive department in the 38 days of the regular season, many of which were decisive for the final result. The Blucerchiati are even better, 13 out of 53, i.e. almost 25%.
More or less like Ternana, 14 goals out of 43. It was a defender, Salim Diakitè, who scored the winning goal last Friday at Druso in Bolzano, which allowed Mignani’s team to defend 6th place. For the Frenchman, fourth goal of the season, first for the rosanero, the previous three with Ternana.
Of the 13 goals scored by Doria’s rearguard, almost half were actually accounted for by two wingers, Depaoli and Giordano, who for all intents and purposes for the Serie B League and for the Sampdoria club themselves are… defenders. Depaoli’s tactical flexibility was greatly exploited by Pirlo, who also used him in the offensive trident of 4-3-3.
While Giordano played his best games as a left midfielder. The other 7 goals are divided between real defenders such as Ghilardi, Gonzalez and Leoni, a full-back, namely Stojanovic’s beautiful goal, to be seen and reviewed, at Ternana, a full-back converted into a central defender this season, namely Murru, who so far he scored the only goal against Feralpisalò, with the instinct of a penalty area attacker, finishing.
