Venice-Pisa: the probable formations
There is no doubt: you have to win, fighting centimeter by centimeter and ball by ball. Arena Garibaldi shouted it out at the end of the third consecutive defeat last week, and Rolando Maran, his players and the whole club know it. The ranking after the first five days of the championship presents the misery of a single point and the performances have caused a wave of anxiety and fears within the whole square. Serie B does not expect anyone and there is an absolute need to start collecting points and heavy results. Saturday 17th September the Sporting Club will visit Venice (2 pm), another formation in the grip of a series of very big problems. It is the ideal opportunity to unlock and hit the first win of the season.
“Let’s overcome the frailties”
“The ranking at this moment must be a stimulus, not a brake” Rolando Maran affirms with confidence. “We have only one point because, among negative episodes, referee decisions and mistakes made, we deserve it – continues the Nerazzurri coach – we have to mentally unblock ourselves. Come? Fight on all the balls, without backing off an inch. The spark can come from a positive episode: if we have not had it up to now, it is because we got scared and went into business in the face of the first difficulties and we got discouraged. It is true that we give little to our opponents: the global statistics of the championship say this. But the numbers also say that we are the worst defense: it means that we suffer more than we should, also because we do not create the right ones for our opponents “.
The Trentino coach has no doubts about the commitment of his players: “The group pushes hard during the weekly training sessions. We all know we have a big responsibility: the shirt weighs, the attack of the fans is exceptional, the closeness of the club is commendable. Now it’s up to us to give back all the confidence on the basis of positive performance and winning results. We are really poisoned and sorry for the performance we have had so far: we have to reverse the trend by eliminating, first of all, the weaknesses highlighted in recent weeks. “Maran continues:” I have a very generous group of men at my disposal. But this generosity sometimes it’s a double-edged sword. Because on many occasions in which we have gone under in the score, for the desire to recover and remedy we have found ourselves with proposed things that do not fit our strings “.
“Our identity it must never change because of the episodes – adds the Pisa coach – in the last few weeks we have found some certainties in the defensive phase. I am convinced that we are on the right path to find them also in the offensive phase. We will see him already from Venice. “De Vitis, Caracciolo and Torregrossa will be missing from the lagoon. Esteves has recovered from his muscle problem and will be called up, even if the holder of the right wing will remain Calabresi. In attack Gliozzi goes towards the debut from 1 ‘, with Masucci who could be recovered at the last minute and taken to the bench (“His injury is less serious than expected. We will evaluate in the next few hours whether to call him or not” Mar revealsan). quality and personality on the trocar.
The referee and the curiosity of the match
Directs Daniele Perenzoni of Rovereto: with him the Pisa has no field precedents, but it has a very recent and unhappy one related to the Var. Perenzoni in fact was one of the two people in charge of reviewing the actions on the occasion of the match against Reggina a week ago, and then the protagonist of the reference to the Serra connection on the occasion of the fortuitous and involuntary touch between Masucci and Camporese which led to the cancellation of the Nerazzurri striker’s goal.
Venezia have 4 points in the standings, all won away from Penzo where instead they remedied two defeats in as many games, scoring just one goal and conceding 4. Pisa, however, managed to do even worse, winning just 1 point in 5 games and exiting always in the two away matches.
This is the eighteenth intersection between the two formations in the lagoon. The overall budget 1 win, 8 losses and 8 draws. On the last occasion in Pisa and Venice they challenged each other at Penzo, on 4 January 2021 (Serie B), Svoboda responded to the goal of Marconi for the orange and green (1-1 the final score).
The probable formations
Venice (4-3-3): Maenpaa; Candela, Modolo, Ceccaroni, Ullmann; Crnigoj, Fiordilino, Cuisance; Connolly, Novakovich, Johnsen. All. Javorcico
Pisa (4-3-2-1): Nicolas; Calabresi, Rus, Barba, Beruatto; Ionita, Nagy, Marin; Mastino, Tramoni; Gliozzi. All. Marano