PISA. While waiting for the official announcement, but there are no doubts, Filippo Inzaghi’s arrival in Pisa arouses great curiosity. A coach who has already won Serie B in Benevento and who, before starting his adventure on the bench, was an important name in the recent history of our football. He will be the fourth world champion as a footballer (after Luisito Monti, Antonio Cabrini and Gennaro Gattuso) to sit on the Pisa bench.
Flexible ideas
However, this is the least important aspect for thinking about the Pisa to come. Pisa have chosen a coach overall with different ideas from Aquilani but who nevertheless always has proactive football in mind. Joys and disappointments in eleven years on the bench and an unforgettable moment. In Benevento, in 2019-20, Inzaghi was able to be flexible in his formations, scoring a lot and conceding little: 67 goals scored and 27 conceded, almost all after plays, best attack and best defence. The victory of the B championship is logical. In his belief there is not only the classic 4-3-3. Schiattarella’s injury forced him to adopt a 4-4-2, “inventing” Tello as a left winger in midfield. With Schiattarella’s return he switched to a 4-3-2-1 with sole striker Massimo Coda, then replaced by Moncini and Di Serio at the end of the season, and the rapid Sau and Insigne as attacking midfielders. Coda scored fewer than usual, seven goals, but for three quarters of the season he was an important point of reference for the entire department.
Moreo and Tramoni
Something similar, on a tactical level, could be done in Pisa with Moreo. The coach from Piacenza knows the number 32 very well who scored double figures with him in Venice, 12 goals in the championship won in Serie C in 2016-17, and in Brescia he found a continuity never seen before in Serie B. In 2021-22 he scored 9 goals in the regular season, the team’s top scorer, and 5 assists. In that season Inzaghi was sacked when he was still fighting for Serie A with six matchdays to go. Inzaghi will also find Matteo Tramoni, 7 goals in that season, who with him established himself as one of the best talents of Serie B. In that case a pure 4-3-3 with Moreo as central striker and Tramoni himself wide on the left. It’s obvious that Inzaghi currently finds himself with a different type of team in Pisa. With Bonfanti who is a candidate to be the real man of the area and many other attackers in the squad, starting with Torregrossa.
The others he knows
Inzaghi will also find defender Arturo Calabresi again. Immovable with Superpippo in Serie A during his time at Bologna. Vignato, who Salernitana did not redeem, worked with him for two weeks last January in Salerno, before Superpippo’s dismissal. Even Artur Ionita, returning from his loan in Lecco, was Inzaghi’s player in Serie A in Benevento in the year of their relegation to Serie B. Even though the Moldovan midfielder did little in Pisa and already has two loans under his belt. Inzaghi also coached goalkeeper Livieri, who had just returned from his loan at Cremonese, in Milan’s Primavera.
Who wants
Inzaghi will certainly try to include players of his liking in a squad that will inevitably have to be thinned out. A name that has come out in recent days is that of right winger Niccolò Pierozzi, born in 2001 and owned by Fiorentina. With Inzaghi he played both for Reggina, 34 appearances and 4 goals, and for Salernitana. If Barbieri is redeemed, as it seems, by Juventus, Pierozzi could be an important alternative. Also because it is suitable for the 3-5-2. Another module that Inzaghi does not disdain.
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