Toro continues to not convince, against Cremonese they even lose 2-1. It is a particular test, played in four half-hour periods, but the substance does not change. And, indeed, it fuels further doubts about the team and the need for immediate reinforcements: the defense continues to suffer too much, the attack continues to create too little. In addition, there is the hand of Vanoli who at this moment is not yet visible, as he himself underlines after half an hour of the match. “You are already man-marked” he shouts from the bench, almost as if the “ghost” of Juric was still on the pitch and in the locker room, with Zapata and his teammates who have not yet switched and who have remained with the old style of play. The Colombian captain stands out for the goal of the temporary equalizer, but before and after the team does not shoot and does not create, as already happened with Juric, and now he also concedes a lot, with two goals conceded and some prodigious interventions by Popa.
Reinforcements are needed, but this was already known, even if something better was expected, considering that compared to Virtus Verona there were also Bellanova, Ricci and Ilic. Certainly, however, Vanoli returns from Pinzolo with even more doubts than when he left, and now the level will rise even further. After a short stop in Turin, the team will go to France to face Lyon (July 31) and Metz (August 3).
Vojvoda also admits the difficulties of the journey. “You have to learn another type of game, waiting more, because before everything was different – says the Kosovar – and when you play man-to-man, you follow him back and forth. Sometimes if you are a winger you also find yourself in a striker position, now you have to hold your position. If you remember, even with Juric at the beginning we struggled, when he arrived we didn’t understand anything. We often lost the man. Then we worked and we did very well. I think the same thing will happen now”. The first official match, however, is approaching: on August 11 there will be the preliminary round of the Italian Cup against Cosenza.