Alberto Aquilani remains on the bench. Despite the terrible match against Padova. Even though he didn’t take advantage of the break to correct the errors which were evident and which were also repeated, the coach directed training yesterday and will do the same today. The owners and sporting director Polito met immediately after the defeat with the Venetians, as they do every day, and have evidently decided to move forward: the project imagined in the summer will have another chance. Or rather, three more, given that ahead of Catanzaro there are three matches in eight days, Palermo on Saturday at the “Ceravolo”, Mantova away on Wednesday and Venezia the following Sunday, again at home. It is logical that all together they will contribute to adding something definitive to a budget that has so far been insufficient. The hope is that in this triptych, which would be complicated regardless, let alone in this phase in which the mood borders on the alert level, something will change.
In reality, a change was already expected with Padova, after a two-week break which allowed us to work in peace and without official commitments, but as far as what was shown against Padova, an opponent who was not at all transcendental, progress, improvements and even changes were not seen: long defenses, defense often exposed, midfield in constant numerical inferiority, offensive initiatives linked to the ideas of individuals rather than to a collective idea. It is the most difficult moment of this season which did not start in the best way and the admission about the “fragility of the team” made by Aquilani himself is an obvious thing impossible to hide.
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