Catanzaro and Fabio Caserta play a lot, although perhaps not all of it. Not yet, at least. Trying to do so at Salernitana is not the easiest thing, but a point per game after six days is not considered a satisfactory haul, so continuing with the slow progress of this start could trigger a certain type of evaluation in the club’s chain of command , starting from the property. Between Arechi this afternoon, with 3,000 Giallorossi fans behind him, and the subsequent home match against Modena next Sunday, the coach is obliged to demonstrate that he has found the squaring of the circle and, above all, the way to make the team take action . The declared objective is salvation, but if the workforce is evaluated differently compared to the position it occupies in a non-irremediable ranking, the consequences are easily deduced. Adding to the difficulty factor of the match against the Granata are the absences of the injured Iemmello and Pontisso (Pagano and Borrelli are also injured), so it’s not as if Caserta has all the potential available. But it has solutions you can rely on.
Red line. «Football is beautiful and ugly also because everything changes very quickly: after a defeat you only see negative things, but after a victory everything is rosy. We don’t have to think this way, there is a path and, game after game, we have to try to limit the mistakes we make and continue with the positive things regardless of the result.” Yes, the result is the not too thin red line on the basis of which the inside and the outside are established. It’s true that it’s still early to look at the rankings: «Right now it doesn’t matter much, I wouldn’t look at it even in three or four rounds, I’m interested in what we do in the race and in training, we’re growing and this comforts me. The values don’t come out on the sixth day, we started with the declared objective of survival and we have to score points for this.” It is also true that a new knockout would be tolerated little or not at all, in fact Caserta himself added that he knows well that “points are always important”. Coming out of Arechi well, in a warm environment (“But we will also have a lot of fans”), would mean a lot for the whole project started in July: “Salernitana has a very specific identity, we will also have to be careful not to give away spaces and restarts immediately reading the race well.”
Solutions. As a center forward it will be Pittarello’s turn, there are no doubts. Even the four-man defense does not allow exceptions in terms of numbers, unlike that of the interpreters given that Cassandro will take the place away from Situm, held back by problems (which later returned) to a calf in the first days of the week. From the waist up Pompetti more than Coulibaly next to Petriccione, Compagnon on the right is unquestionable, on the left D’Alessandro has to defend himself from Buso. One last piece is missing: with Biasci as the starter it would be a 4-4-2 starting line-up, a formation that Caserta explicitly indicated to the microphones before finishing it off for Giovino. «We started this journey with a tactical idea which at the beginning, for various reasons, wasn’t implemented, but now we can work on it and I believe in it. This team has played excellent games like this and can play very well with two in the middle, it’s not true that we suffer against them”, underlined the coach. Last year, when he was coaching Cosenza, Caserta had given balance to the 4-2-3-1 by moving Tutino (from the left to center forward) with a midfielder of intensity and insertions like Voca behind him: can he be replicated in the Giallorossi? Koutsoupias seems suited to the task and, while waiting for Iemmello, nothing can be ruled out. Caserta’s smile could also be indicative.
