For Reggina today is the day of the joint training with Melito. The test will take place at pitch number 2 of the Sant’Agata sports centre. The start is scheduled for 17:30. It will be the first of three matches scheduled this week.
Today’s opponent is a team that plays in the Promozione championship, two categories below Serie D. Pergolizzi’s team will return to testing the automatisms, confident of being able to find greater fluidity in the offensive game compared to the last performances. Also because, in a moment in which the legs are heavy, it is difficult to find quality in the plays even against teams of lower caliber.
However, as we approach the start of the season, we need to start finding the right balance. Even by projecting ourselves on choices that could characterise the first part of the season. We have to do it. navigating some small residual critical issues in the composition of the staff.
In the various tests carried out to date on several occasions we have seen an eleven that did not take into account the rule of the under. The one that forces teams in the Serie D championship to always field at least one player born from 2004 onwards, one from 2005 and one from 2006.
The lineups proposed by Reggina have not, for example, always included the player from last season. Before there were only the two full-backs Vesprini and Bombaci, and now the midfielder Forciniti has been added. Someone else will probably be needed to broaden the selection and it is foreseeable that he could arrive among the last market operations that Reggina will have to make to complete the squad.
Although Pergolizzi’s idea is to create a team capable of proposing dynamic formations, with diversified choices on the under 18s and their positions, At this stage, it will be necessary to create deployment models that can be used throughout the season and possibly alternated.
Talking about formation problems, when August 15th has just passed, could be boring. However, Reggina must also think about the fact that on the occasion of the first championship match (September 8th) they risk not having a first striker available.
Barranco has moved well in this pre-season, but will be suspended for the debut against Igea Virtus. Rajkovic is behind the rest of his teammates in terms of condition and it is not clear what his form will be when the official matches begin. This is why, starting today, we will be able to see if Pergolizzi will propose different solutions for the first offensive line, for example with Ragusa as the first striker in the 3-5-2. Unless, as the fans hope and as is probably needed for a team that aims to win, another important striker arrives before the start of the new season. Reggina has been looking for him for a long time, but is waiting for the right opportunity. It is not yet clear whether it will be a second striker or another centre forward.