Pisa, the final pagellone: super Caracciolo, two shortcomings
PISA. A 42-game adventure – 38 in the regular season and 4 in the playoffs – 3,810 minutes – including overtime with Monza but excluding all recovery time – consumed on fields throughout Italy. That of Pisa was an endless season, with a bitter ending but with the lights that clearly dominated the shadows as to demonstrate the year-end “pagellone” of the Nerazzurri troops. There he is.
7.5 NICOLA
So many portentous and decisive feats, some inexplicable amnesia. Two inseparable sides of the same coin. All or nothing? We take it all, without a doubt
6.5 LIVIERI
The essence of the role of second goalkeeper is to find ready the times, usually few, in which, often they are called, one is called into question. Task carried out without hesitation.
7 LEVER
Over half the season as the absolute ruler of his own penalty area. Then a gradual and partial decline, probable price for having practically never taken a breath, but without ever overshadowing a crystalline talent. Not very brilliant, unfortunately, even in the final-bis.
6.5 HERMANNSSON
The compactness of the Leverbe-Caracciolo couple often forced him to be diverted to the right wing, with mixed success. As a stopper he is a bit cumbersome, but concentrated and vigorous.
8 CARACCIOLO
The mathematical certainty of the Nerazzurri defense, with determination, timing and essentiality in the interventions. A bomber added on the inactive balls. Too bad for the premature exit from the scene. In the final a laeder like him weighed a lot.
7.5 BERUATTO
Consolidate the strong offensive skills of a sharp and precise southpaw. The commitment to continuous defensive growth is the key to an immediate qualitative leap.
7.5 BIRINDELLI
A peremptory tear towards final maturity like the one that punched Benevento in the playoffs. The captain’s armband (from Pisa, sometimes the youngest of the owners) gives him further impetus, enhancing his skills in both phases of the game. The final mistake with Monza, in short, neither erases nor tarnishes his season.
6 BERRA
The summer injury to Cagliati imprisons him in a tunnel, which seems endless, while instead he flows into the skies of Monza, for a winning detachment compensation.
6.5 NAGY
He is neither a backward playmaker nor an ankle-biting midfielder, but a man of footballing “intelligence”, who reads and defuses the moves of others, often without fail, guiding the counter-offensives on track.
5.5 GUCHER
The form that never blossomed is both the cause and the consequence of a very low use and a yield below expectations. On the sidelines, the captain sets a good example.
6 DE VITIS
The ailments once again penalize him in a season that began in the midst of D’Angelo’s rotations. With innate football intelligence at the end of the season he knows how to carve out a valuable part-time role.
7.5 MARINE
As an interdictor it is now a certainty, less and less foul and more rocky, but above all continuous. If, in addition, he has the cue to propose himself forward but often fails to refine his action with quality, we cannot blame him.
6.5 BENALI
It enchants with alternating current, not having the 90 ‘and having to breathe during the tour de force periods. The best game and the best goals often pass from his feet.
6.5 TOURE ‘
For half the championship he is the extra man in all areas of the pitch, with an irrepressible physical strength. Then he ends up ko on an athletic level and struggles to get up, accentuating the tendency to get distracted and complicate life.
6 MASTINO
As an attacking midfielder he is not convincing (not even himself), while as a midfielder he raises the qualitative rate of the maneuver without estranging himself from the fight in the middle of the field.
6 SIEGA
He spends half a season in the pits, then comes back almost as a new signing, doing the dark work to balance a front-wheel drive team with profit.
5.5 COHEN
Finds it hard to adapt to the rhythms of Italian football, with an undeniable desire to do but often with as much confusion. The average-goal on the minutes played is not, however, to be despised.
6 MARSURA
Initially D’Angelo reshaped the offensive line-up to take advantage of his skills as a winger. Winter purchases and some physical problems put him off the radar.
6 LUCCA
He starts off like a rocket with 6 goals in 7 games, then gets jammed and struggles to get back into the ranks after excessive media exposure, still trying to make it useful in the service of his teammates.
6.5 TORREGRASSA
In perfect physical condition, he would make a difference in almost every race (as happens throughout the month of March). Having to fight with physical troubles, he hacks when and as long as he can, otherwise he grits his teeth in tender scraps.
7 PUSCA
Physical strength, quality in control and ability to unmark. Large-scale realization rhythms, yet not a few failed goals, demonstrating the multiplicity of possibilities that he knows how to build.
7 SIBYLS
He breaks the games, especially the big matches, often showing a good impact from 1 ‘or during construction. He still accuses a few empty jokes, but he is more and more continuous and determined.
6.MASUCCI
He gives his best in every rhythm of the game as if it were the last, continuing to feed his talent with the desire of a kid combined with the infinite experience of a veteran.
SV THE OTHERS
Only small change for Di Quinzio, but also for Piccinini, Seck and Cisco who deservedly look out in B before going to gain experience elsewhere.
8 D’ANGELO
Often unfairly criticized, he assembles a team that gives little and that focuses on an intensity that no other cadet team can produce. If he misses some (few) choices, it is only because he is always looking for the ignition point of each player.