There was a pleasant breath of freshness and curiosity around the Pisa 2023/2024. A new sporting director, a coach with excellent references for the work done with the Fiorentina Primavera, and many talented players (especially from midfield upwards) who, inserted into a game model with proactive intentions, whetted the palate of who, in football, seeks human satisfaction as well as the constant – and at times monotonous – proliferation of opinions regarding the achievement of the much talked about sporting objectives.
Alberto Aquilaniat the end of the year, he walked the tightrope between the realization of desires and of both tactical and attitudinal creaks, in what was a continuous alternation between the lights of ideas (second team – source fbref.com – for percentage of ball possession and percentage of passing accuracy, behind Catanzaro in both cases; third for tackles in the attacking midfield) and the shadows of fragility (ninth for shots on target, third for expulsions suffered, twelfth for expected goals).
When they proved capable of unleashing the talent of their most qualitative elements, such as Arena, Valoti, Esteves and D’Alessandro, for example, the Nerazzurri generated effective situations, beautiful to look at, dangerous to suffer. A process which, as mentioned above, did not always prove to be a constant flow of offensive and dominant play, as the moments of shutdown were different, numerous, often fatal.
Here, therefore, what have inevitably been the foundations, tempered both by the praise and the criticism of a place that has a status to underline, would need – or would have needed? – of continuation and, above all, of trust in people. Here comes the perception that the floor is creaking excessively, between the sirens from Serie A for the coach and the words of the latter, as well as with reference to what seems like a farewell already absorbed by the Sports Director Stefanelli. In these cases, given the possible wishes of those directly involved, the mechanisms probably undergo modifications such as to reduce the impact of potential works of persuasion (starting from the value attributable to the contracts), but yet another navigation interrupted shortly would constitute an inevitable question mark. after leaving port. What will be in the future of Pisa?
