Who seemed to have sent encouraging signals last Saturday was Riccardo Orsoliniinstead with his Bologna faults again against Aston Villa in the 2-0 defeat in Birmingham. Italian is 5.5 per La Gazzetta dello Sport: “Maatsen often puts him on the ropes, jumping and highlighting him: when he has the ball he tries to connect everyone, when he doesn’t have the ball…”. Same vote for the Corriere della Sera And TMW: “His game in Birmingham lasted just a while. Applied in the defensive phase, however, he wasn’t hungry for the balls in the final metres.” The failure is even more evident for the Corriere dello Sportwho gives him a 5: “He suffers when falling back and doesn’t produce in attack: he gets caught by Maatsen, who has to land to stop him, and by McGinn. His game, like the whole start of the season, is one I would like but I can’t. Not enough.” Finally it is 5 per Tuttosport: “Forced to yellow when he was preceded by Maatsen, he wasted on the restart.”
The votes
TMW: 5.5
La Gazzetta dello Sport: 5.5
Corriere dello Sport: 5
Corriere della Sera: 5.5
Tuttosport: 5