Palermo is preparing to play the semi-final second leg of the Serie B playoffs at the Penzo against Venezia: Pigliacelli returns between the posts
The eve of a match worth a season. The last stage of Palermo’s 2023-2024 football season could take place in Venice tomorrow evening. Mignani’s men will obviously do everything they can to ensure this isn’t the case, seeking a complicated comeback that will extend their journey into the Serie B playoffs. It’s an uphill road, after the lagoon players’ blitz at Barbera, to reach the final in fact the team rosanero should prevail at Penzo with at least a two goal margin over their opponent. It is essential to be able to hurt the Venetian defense, but it will be equally important to try to secure your own goal. Today’s edition of the Giornale di Sicilia underlines how, in the key match of the season, fate has returned a starting shirt to Pigliacelli, one of the leaders of the Rosanero dressing room recently displaced by the young Sebastiano Desplanches between the posts. The muscle injury that occurred to the 2003 class of AC Milan against Venezia at the Barbera will force him to withdraw from Penzo, so it will once again be up to number twenty-two to defend the rosanero goal against Pohjanpalo and his teammates. However fundamental in this two-year period, despite some uncertainty, Pigliacelli often brought valuable points with his saves and proved to be a precious piece in the construction from the bottom due to his technical ability with his feet. Contract expiring in 2025 and future to be defined, even if Palermo seems to have every intention of aiming to benefit Desplanches starting from the next championship. However, Pigliacelli will be ready in the match that can seal the final word or fuel the Serie A dream for Mignani’s team. Whatever happens, even if he leaves in the summer, the expert goalkeeper is keen to leave a good memory in a place that he became very fond of during his stay.
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