An impossible mission to break the ice in the championship. In Bari, Cosenza wants to try. On paper, tomorrow afternoon’s match appears unequal, however, within the Bruzio clan there is already a high desire to reverse the trend after the first setbacks.
The only success of Coppitelli’s group remains that of the Cup derby against Crotone. The fast lasts for forty days. Coppitelli is confident that the time has come for him to start collecting although the task against the team of Rastelli and former Sila players Cerofolini and Butic is among the most difficult.
Not even tradition helps Cosenza. In nineteen matches played in Puglia against the Bari team, the rossoblù have only managed two victories, in 1989 (0-3) and 1993 (1-2), compared to eleven defeats and six draws (including the one in 2024 in the last match between the two teams).
In the search for the eleven capable of giving greater guarantees, Coppitelli will have to deal with the absence of Pascalau, who is involved with the Romania Under 21 team today at 6pm against Cyprus. Among the possibilities, the reuse of Cogoni, who could also be moved as a fifth on the right, with Clemente moving back to the back three. More information regarding tomorrow’s XI could come from this morning’s press conference (12.30 pm) from the rossoblù coach.
The next few months will define the work of the Roman coach and sporting director Fabio Lucioni, who today will cut his first cake in his new professional role. The player from Terni celebrates his 39th birthday on the eve of the away match against “San Nicola”, just after a summer full of market movements but with unfavorable scenarios. The comings and goings that have hit the locker room are perplexing at the moment, considering the very meager return in terms of points and results. He too, like many of his predecessors, found himself moving on very challenging testing ground.
The sporting director, who endorsed the start of a new cycle, satisfied the desire of the company’s top management to raise cash by selling the valuable pieces that had almost reached the culmination of their journey on the banks of the Crati, raking in resources with which to put together the new technical design along the line of austerity. A rigorous policy which after the first 540 minutes of the championship confined Cosenza to the penultimate place in Group C
