Individual errors and offensive sterility, players who were a little dull and even a bit of bad luck. It is the combination of causes that explains the Catanzaro in a minor tone of this period. It can be remedied, as always, because a team that had lined up five consecutive victories before the break cannot fail to have the values, only that now they have to cling to those who are better off: Pittarello and Liberali, for example, but also Petriccione and D’Alessandro.
The mistakes that allowed Sudtirol to score two goals from a throw-in were evident. Especially the second, with the three defenders anticipating either by heading or at speed, made Aquilani turn up his nose. But we knew that the South Tyroleans would have done this, so it is serious not to have equalized their reactivity: is it lack of athletic brilliance or just mental satisfaction considering the always very good ranking? If Catanzaro conceded seven goals in four matches, they didn’t fare much better up front having only scored twice, with D’Alessandro in Venice and Pittarello in Bolzano. On Saturday the Giallorossi shot 21 times, 7 of which between the posts, first the goalkeeper and then a player blocked Pittarello on the line, but no one is being wronged by remembering that in other matches the team gave a very different idea of danger. Instead, we do it to Iemmello, contenting ourselves with seeing him as an assistant director. Nothing to say about the back-heel that Liberali launched, laying the foundations for the momentary 1-1, but the captain is accentuating the tendency to move away from the opponent’s area and in moments like this it’s a bad thing: Pietro was dragging in difficulties, he has to go back to doing so so as not to leave the weight of the department almost solely to Pittarello. The Venetian’s four goals are double the last tournament, but his main characteristic is working for the team, not the relentlessness of the strikers.
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