Vanoli and Antonelli, Venice finally goes. Pordenone-Vicenza, in a match with a thousand meanings. Caneo, two months to evaporate. Trieste, an endless nightmare
Monday 12 December 2022 – 00:00 – Author: Dimitri Canello
I begin this editorial with a praise, in the midst of so many black holes. The praise goes to Paolo Vanoli, who overturned Venice in a month. It’s too strange a championship to draw definitive judgments, but we must always recognize when a job can take you far. Venice, this Venice, is finally a team. And this is the most important thing. Training choices matter, but up to a point. What matters is seeing a group of players working towards the same goal. Who recovers two goals against Modena, who conquers Palermo, who dispels the taboo – Penzo and who wins twice at home with Ternana and Cosenza. Not only that, but the second time, today against the rossoblùs, he didn’t concede a goal. It hadn’t happened in eight games and these are facts that matter. Tessmann looks like someone else, Busio is coming out of the precipice in which he ended up, Zampano grinds kilometers, Andersen promises really well, Pohjanpalo is a purebred striker in this category. Duncan Niederauer seems to have understood: he apologized to the fans for how the managers of the Venice account behaved, he extended a hand, he hired a sporting director with counter flakes. This, dear Niederauer, is the right path and it is no coincidence that the results have started to turn in the right direction. How right Vanoli should keep talking about salvation, because a month ago Venice were dying and in the minutes immediately before Palermo they were last in the standings. Don’t forget, the technician from Varese and he does very well. This Serie B is a ten-metre high wave, which if you ride it can take you high, but if you take it in the wrong direction it makes you crash to the ground. Today it is difficult to say where Venezia will arrive, but this team can certainly keep the category because, as repeated several times, the technical values are there, the rest can be seen along the way
If it is right that Vanoli talks about salvation, it is understandable that Pierpaolo Bisoli does the same. Südtirol has slowed down, it is true that they are practically in the playoffs, but it is equally true that the playouts are just four points away. The red and white coach knows the category and the risks that distinguish it very well. He has a solid group, but whose values at the beginning of the year were described by critics in a certain way. Did he get the criticism wrong in the trunk, or could things change? The attitude on the pitch remains the right one, of a team that wants to save itself and which at the moment has that in mind and that’s what they’re fighting for. Of necessity, the Citadel also has to talk about salvation, which falls into the playout area and is decimated by injuries. Given how the situation is in the infirmary, the only possible goal at the end of 2022 remains to keep the category. And it is a duty to tune your frequencies to these stations. Virtually all the forwards were hurt, if it’s not a record we’re close. Straight antennas, therefore.
Sunday in Serie C has four themes to develop: 1) the Pordenone-Vicenza big match; 2) the exemption of Bruno Caneo in Padua; 3) the endless crisis of Triestina; 4) the collapse of Trento. On topic number one we go from scattered notes. Vicenza did very well for the first half hour despite the absences, Pordenone struck, Vicenza had the strength to equalize in the final half, Pordenone struck again, Pinato got foolishly sent off (if you’re booked, you can’t commit such a stupid thing and it’s not the first time) and Vicenza drew for the second time. In the conditions in which it was, for Modesto the 2-2 is a great result. However, Pordenone keeps the dispute open, proving to have the strength and balance of a big player, but something is missing to make a definitive leap in quality. Let’s venture: a central defender and a striker in January. Meanwhile, Feralpisalò is first, with the incredible Pro Sesto, which insiders in the summer considered at risk of direct relegation and which, instead, is creating an absolute masterpiece.
On theme number two, let’s talk about a failure. Bruno Caneo’s is to be considered as such. After five days Padova was first, they played very well, it was a show to be enjoyed and seen again. Then everything got jammed and today’s team is without rhyme or reason, a prisoner of compromises on the bridge that deprived a group of very little personality of its meaning. To play in Padua, as in Trieste, Vicenza, Venice, you need broad shoulders and many gentlemen who live in the white-shielded dressing room don’t have an iota of self-respect. The team won’t be first place, but it’s not fourteenth either. Can Pro Sesto stay at the top and Padova on the edge of the red zone? Massimiliano Mirabelli ended up in the eye of the storm and to understand if the fans’ target is the right one, we need to see the performance of Caneo’s successor. If the team changes pace (we remain convinced that it can do it) and emerges from the underworld, the judgments on the registered director will inevitably change, otherwise there will be hard times for whoever governs the club.
Theme number two intertwines with theme number three and, in this case, with the never-ending crisis in Triestina. Even here in the crosshairs there is a sporting director, Giancarlo Romairone, who has ended up in the centrifuge of the halberd fans. Rightly enraged, offended, hurt like never before. Massimo Pavanel, in all honesty, has an indefensible performance: eight defeats in eleven games is a huge amount, for a coach who has always had a respectable role wherever he has gone. The current one is a very unpleasant exception, but it is not time to resign, according to the rumors of the day. Yet Triestina is last, prisoner of an inexplicable crisis from a technical point of view. Or rather, explainable by the fact that when you’re built for other goals and find yourself at the bottom, maybe you don’t have the balls to put on a helmet and go to the trenches. Triestina is terrified and walks on the pitch, this is the reality: today they can only hope to save themselves through the playouts. It is a resounding failure, with the only foothold represented by January and the massive recourse to the market to light a fire which, week after week, is destroying the whole house.
Finally, theme number four. Trento is sinking, it is the third summit of the Triveneto crisis. Padua, Trieste and Trento share a thrilling destiny. The knockout with Albinoleffe is dramatic, the air of revolution that strikes is at odds with the difficulty of attracting certain players to the bedside of a seriously ill team. Sporting director Giorgio Zamuner confirmed Bruno Tedino despite six consecutive defeats. He is convinced that the problem is the workforce and in January he will try to rebuild it from the ground up. The situation is really difficult and the risk of failure today is high. Best wishes, Trento, its managers and its coach really need it.
PS The postscript of the day goes to Arzignano and Virtus Verona. The giallocelesti reassemble Juve Next Gen and take three platinum points. For the rossoblù, however, another victory to get out of trouble: congratulations to Gigi Fresco, because he had his back against the wall and is freeing the ship from the shallows. He wasn’t obvious. No, he wasn’t at all.
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