Four “old” goals and an own goal. D’Alessandro and Verrengia were the scorers in the first championship match in Vicenza, Iemmello in Pisa and with Carrarese, while at Marassi the partial and illusory advantage went to a player… from Sampdoria on Imperiale’s cross. Among the aspects missing so far, the absence of “new” goals is one of the most evident: none of the many summer reinforcements managed to get into the scoreboards. It is not an unsolvable problem, but it is one of the aspects to work on these days.
Standing out among the goalscorers who are not yet one is Pecorino, if only because he is the center forward taken in August to fill the hole left by the sale of Pittarello. There is no point in throwing the cross on the striker from Catania, who arrived clearly behind in his fitness because Juve, who had shown him the door, never let him train with the Next Gen group, neither during the training camp nor afterwards, so the 25-year-old needed time to reach a level of fitness. In Genoa, before the break, he missed the golden opportunity to break the deadlock in front of the opposing goalkeeper: by scoring the 1-2 for the Giallorossi, who had been in numerical superiority for a while, the match would probably have taken the opposite slope. He had missed another clear chance in the previous match, triggered in the small area by a delightful lob from Iemmello. In this case, however, two symptoms do not make a test and Pecorino, despite being in a poor state of form, has already shown what he can provide as a more advanced reference, even if in a small part. The goals will arrive like the nine last year, crucial to the salvation of Sudtirol. After all, it took Pittarello more than seven months to score his first center with the Eagles (end of February 2025, in La Spezia) and also in the last championship he began to do so at the end of November, against Gorgone’s own Pescara, as a substitute. Until December Pittarello didn’t have the starting place that he would have snatched after the match in Modena – the day of the Immaculate Conception – decided by his penalty in added time.
Extending the picture to the Italian Cup, Pafundi was Catanzaro’s first scorer of the season in August against Sudtirol and perhaps he would have already broken the ice in the championship too if he hadn’t stopped due to injury and missed the three opening away games. From the clash with Mantua onwards it is logical to expect goals from him and more. Citing those who have had more space up to now, Ruggero has always exploited his strength on high balls throughout his career, but above all Mosti is a midfielder with many goals in his pipeline, as he demonstrated last year by hitting 8 times, also against Catanzaro. And then the others, from Cassa to Dorval who scored 4 in 2024/25 in Bari up to Franky Tchaouna: Gorgone has the material in hand to add new goals. All that remains is to find a way to exploit it all.
