From Simeone to Kalinic: the 5 best scorers for Hellas Verona in 2021
A salvation conquered well in advance, two alternations on the bench and a crescendo ending: it was a memorable year, for better or for worse, the one that comes to an end for Hellas Verona. A team that, in terms of offensive production, managed to turn after the advent of Igor Tudor, finding in Giovanni Simeone the double-digit bomber that has been pursued for a long time in recent years. Here are the five markers of the yellow-blue solar year:
1) Giovanni Simeone – 12 goals – He is obviously at the top of the table. And to think that it took him just three months to accumulate this loot: he unlocked on the 25th of September against Genoa, and from then on he never stopped. Four goals to Lazio, two to Juventus, a branded comeback in Venice. A matador of the great and relentless with the parigrados: the change of pace that Verona has found from Rome onwards bears his signature above all.
2) Antonin Barak – 9 goals – And the all-rounder par excellence of this team: indefatigable runner, and therefore dispenser of a quantity that does not detract from the quality at which he has available. Tudor’s hope is that his back problems will be archived as soon as possible, and above all that the market does not deprive him of his trocar jewel. In June, eventually, it will be a whole other music.
3) Marco Davide Faraoni – 6 goals – A piston in the band that, once again this year, managed to get a lot of satisfaction in the goal area. A not bad nest egg for those who, without ever catching their breath, have an entire track to monitor. There are already two seals in this championship, seasoned by four assists, another fundamental specialty of the house.
4) Federico Dimarco – 5 goals -The year and a half with Juric changed his life, and his career. Propulsion and technical quality that have found an exact tactical collocation with the Croatian. Which to be honest is ambivalent: in addition to consolidating himself in the role of fifth, Federico has learned the tricks of the trade of the defensive arm. It is not surprising that Inter took him back and kept him: today he is also an asset for the Italian champion team.
5) Nikola Kalinic – 5 goals – More shadows than lights, but the fifth square (shared with Dimarco) is his. Too bad that the loot is diluted in twelve long months: too little for a center forward with his resume. The truth is that cabbage he got lost and never found his way again, and perhaps he needs new stimuli to recover the vein of the past.