Mazzarri: “The team is not serene, it’s a shame about the equal that arrived due to our great naivety”
CAGLIARI. Seven games without a win. The unsuccessful series of Allegri’s first year was also beaten: the team coached by the current Juventus coach unlocked on matchday seven by beating Torino away from home after five defeats and one draw. And now comes the last solitary place in the standings, after the success of the Salerno at home against Genoa.
Even the Mazzarri management is moving forward without a shock: two points in four games. The most obvious flaw: the team, when there is still too much time left for the triple whistle, seems to no longer have the energy. The perfect action of yesterday’s goal of the prank is an example: four passes in a row have caught a midfield and a defense by counterattack that instead did not have the strength and the right distance to make at least a tactical foul. It was going well, after all, because for some time the Venezia seemed inconsistent.
But a flash was enough and Cagliari lost two points with one hundred and twenty seconds from the end. A disappointment that opens the door to the most classic of questions: if you don’t win games like these, what should you do? Is there room for improvement? Mazzarri thinks so and for this he asked for some time. The problem is that Cagliari is at a ford: it is no longer the team of Semplici’s comeback. But it is not yet – perhaps because the new coach, even if he signed four games, arrived only two weeks ago – Mazzarri’s team. The game has yet to find him. Yesterday good compactness in defense. And in fact, in the end, for the first time, Cagliari collected less than a goal. But there is still no real maneuver: few geometries and possession, but the team often restarted only with the jerks and races of Marin and Nandez.
In the first half Strootman and Deiola guaranteed the balance in the median, but then in the second half the midfield did not guide the management of the ball to allow the team to catch their breath and make the opponents run empty. In attack Keita is confirmed as a good purchase: every game always does something decisive. Now he has two goals. But even he, who did not prepare, dropped almost suddenly after an hour. At the January transfer market, Mazzarri will perhaps have to ask for what Cagliari has been missing most in the last two seasons: one or two players in midfield to ensure quality and continuity even in the changes. But first there is the break and other matches.
The break comes almost as helpful as the gong for an exhausted boxer. However, it will be the usual stampede towards the national teams, another unknown factor of a team that already has enough physical problems and that every time finds itself evaluating the conditions of its players after international commitments.
Mazzarri’s analysis at the end of the race is also an attempt to keep morale up. “You can see that the team is not serene, the boys have been suffering for a year and a half and want to break the world, especially at home – he said at the end of the match – In the final we were penalized by naivety, without Caceres’ deviation it was a parable shot. It was a frozen race, we could have doubled with a couple of restarts and instead we lost points that would have been gold. I said that our championship would start today, unfortunately it started with an equal and not with a victory that all in all we would have deserved ». (ANSA / Stefano Ambu).
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