Today at lunchtime – at 12.30 – you have to give a good kick to the crisis at any cost and even if the opponent is called Avellino vice leaders of the group, you can no longer fool and lose ground in the standings.
What happened to Etna between February and March seems almost a mystery, even bearing in mind certain technical limits that some lucky events had hidden, but now, beyond the change of the coach, the players will have to react after having made a serene and beautiful. examination of conscience.
As usually happens in football when you lose, it was immediately the coach who paid and sorry because until about twenty days ago Raffaele seemed untouchable, respected and esteemed; in his place came Francesco Baldini who did not hesitate to accept the assignment as Catania is a very popular square despite the well-known vicissitudes. We will see and we very much hope that change will serve to shake up the team and the attempt and sacrifice of the club will produce the desired effects.
Today’s game, more than a big match as expected a few weeks ago, has become a crucial stage in the journey of the rossazzurri. A win would relaunch Catania and that’s what it takes, any other result would not go well.
The people of Irpinia trained by Piero Braglia, a lifelong friend as well as a former rossazzurro from his youth, are marching quickly despite the covid 19 having created many problems for the Tuscan coach: Avellino as a last act inflicted a resounding hat-trick on Potenza. «I’m sorry but I don’t speak – the good Pierino has limited himself to saying – I always gladly return to Catania, a city that has remained in my heart and this is one more reason not to open my mouth. And then with this terrible covid the inconveniences are enormous even for holding a press conference ».
Baldini spoke instead, from which miracles certainly cannot be expected three days after his arrival in Catania, the players will have to bring out the pride and return to express themselves with the grit and determination shown above all in the first round. Baldini will then be able to give them their way by making technical and psychological help.
And the training? The new Rossazzurro coach is a convinced supporter of 4-3-3, a form that we believe he will adopt today and according to some rumors Maldonado will be trusted – a bit sacrificed by Raffaele – who will have to inspire the team’s game. Defense to 4 with Giosa, Claiton, Calapai and Pinto, in mid-field the Ecuadorian together with Welbeck and Dall’Oglio, in attack a trident perhaps composed of Sarao, Russotto and Piccolo with Di Piazza ready for a relay- Among the 25 called up however, there are Tonucci and Golfo in the recovery phase.
The match will be directed by Mr. Luca Zufferli, from the AIA section of Udine and it will almost certainly be played in the rain. We hope it will bring good luck to Catania, also waiting for a long-awaited change of ownership but still not close. At least as far as we know.