Pietro Iemmello in Catanzaro and Matteo Brunori in Ascoli. Yet another long-distance duel between two of the symbolic attackers of Serie B is ready to take place. Tomorrow at the “Ceravolo” (5.15 pm) everyone’s attention will focus above all on the totems of the two teams, the men with the most experience and with goals in their blood. So similar and so different, they could even play together without stepping on each other’s toes. Maybe they won’t beat each other in a literal sense, considering how far their respective range of action should be, but they will certainly do it in a figurative sense, given that the Eagles will cling to the captain to trip up the Marche players. And vice versa. Between the two, in the seven direct clashes in which both were on the pitch, the balance goes to the Giallorossi, who won five (three against Catanzaro alone) and lost only one (at the “Ceravolo”). As for goals, in those same matches Pietro struck four times between Catanzaro, Perugia and Frosinone, while Brunori only favored Bonini’s own goal in Palermo’s blitz two championships ago. Pecorino’s absence due to injury, at least in Verona’s fit, determined and decisive version, deprives Catanzaro of a perfect partner for the captain, because Iemmello next to a center forward who acts as a marker and opens up spaces can be lethal, even if he never managed to be dangerous in Veneto. And so this time he will probably have different characteristics (those of Koffi rather than Arditi) to revolve around, while it is difficult for him to return to moving as a first striker with Pafundi as support. This does not mean that the number 9, when he is on a good day, is able to decide regardless of his teammate. He signed the only victory of the season and it is obviously him that Gorgone is clinging to to consolidate a bench that remains precarious on the eve of a week with three games. Iemmello, 84 goals in 235 in Serie B with different shirts, has been the guiding light for Catanzaro for almost five years and this marks the most obvious difference with his rival, at least in the context in which they are placed. Because Brunori arrived in Ascoli in the summer, a transfer coup with which the newly promoted club sealed the ambitions of a championship far from the suffering of the safety zone. In a team without cover names, the 31-year-old striker with 51 goals in 182 games among the cadets is the cover product and the element that must drag Tomei’s team even, if not above all, in the most complicated moments, which there will also be: so far he has only scored once, against Benevento and from a penalty, but he signed the success. Tomorrow he will be public enemy one for Catanzaro. Like Iemmello for Ascoli.
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