CAGLIARI. Five goals conceded in five games in the streak with Fiorentina, Atalanta, Napoli, Empoli and Turin. And five balls behind Cragno in the last two matches with Lazio and Spezia. And now fifty-three goals have been scored: only Salernitana (63) and Empoli (54) have done worse. In short, third-last for conceded goals. Rearguard again under fire. But the lawyer defends her.
Mario Ielpo, double ex from next Saturday’s match, is now a lawyer. The harangue to try to take away at least some responsibility from Lovato and associates is inevitable. «The defense in these cases has little to do with it – explains the number one of the formation of the double promotion from C to B and the conquest of a place in Uefa – in Cagliari the attitude of the team worries. I saw the match against Spezia: great Cragno, but the others were quite limp. A difficult situation to explain. And the goal was in the air immediately: Spezia was always there in front and shot on goal. Cagliari never. If anything, we must reverse the reasoning and ask ourselves why, except for a few occasions in the final, Cagliari failed to create a game and scoring chances. The way the game went, it was inevitable that Spezia would score. Then sometimes football is a mystery: certain matches like the one between PSG and Real teach that things can change at any moment. But this hardly ever happened on Saturday ».
First the three goals against Lazio, Ielpo’s first team: «But Cagliari has some mitigating circumstances – he continues – Lazio have very strong players in front of them. And at Unipol Domus, scoring after a few minutes, he immediately found the ideal conditions to play his best game: it is difficult to contain Lazio in these situations ».
Cragno acquitted: «He is going through a good moment – explains Ielpo defending his” colleague “- he is a goalkeeper like those of the past, when there were no giants between the posts that seem to cover the entire goal. But he has excellent skills. We are talking about a comparison with a football from a long time ago, but he looks like me, he is agile and quick, very reactive. With Spezia he was really very good ».
And now Cagliari-Milan, perhaps the most difficult match at the moment to try to get back on top. «Of course – underlines Ielpo, Rossoneri goalkeeper from 1993 to 1996 with a lot of Champions League in his palmares – if you look at the match against Spezia we can say that Milan are indisputably the favorites. But there is an unknown factor. Which is that of the team that played very well in the previous weeks, for example with Napoli and Atalanta. Here, to understand what will happen, we need to see if the pre Lazio team will take the field or the one seen with Spezia. A detail that will make the difference ».
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