Another disappointment for Milan. Which remains an open case. After the gray 0-0 with Genoa at San Siro I would like to ask Ibra if he still likes Fonseca. Is it possible that a man of Zlatan’s personality would agree to live in this limbo. With the increasingly real risk of not qualifying for the next Champions League. In short, Ibra, if you’re still Ibra, give it a shot. Quickly. Roma’s defeat at Como is also surprising. I had the feeling that Ranieri had found the right path to relaunch the Giallorossi team. Instead, nothing. Roma’s season risks being a failure and in this case it is reasonable to expect a total revolution. With Ranieri I will have to identify the right coach to restart. The Giallorossi world does not deserve this mediocrity.
Now the game is over. The Goddess is one of the most credible candidates to win the scudetto. The title race is getting thinner from game to game. Atalanta has shown that it now has the continuity typical of great teams. And Gasp is a fantastic leader. In the ranking of how much influence coaches have, he is certainly ahead of Simone Inzaghi and Conte. The other two technicians in the running for the tricolor. Gasp is succeeding in a feat that I honestly considered equal to a Mission Impossible and that is to return the real Zaniolo to Italian football. The Dea coach wanted him (and this was already a big gamble), waited for him in the summer when he was immediately injured and inserted him at the right time. Not only that. Since Gasp is Gasp and can afford anything, he also reproached him for the excess of celebrations after decisive goals.
Lots of stuff. You will see that from year to year there will be more and more talents who will want him as a technical guide. And even a little spiritual.
A coach under scrutiny is Thiago Motta. In just a few days he went from winning the Champions League against City to a narrow draw against Venezia. Juve is an unfinished project. And Thiago Motta with these continuous ups and downs is under observation more than ever. In the second part of the season he will have to prove that he is worthy of the Juventus bench. It’s true, he wasn’t helped by manager Giuntoli who this time conducted an insufficient purchasing campaign. And it’s true that he had to live with a long list of injuries. But a coach of a big club must know how to develop alternative plans along the way. Thiago Motta, on the other hand, seems almost enmeshed in a lackluster, mediocre technical project. Dusan Vlahovic is also under scrutiny. He too will have to prove that he is a Juve center forward. The argument with some Juventus fans at the end of the match against Venezia (remember that one threatened him with death) is a dangerous alarm bell. The Juventus center forward must be able to handle certain pressures. And have continuity. Instead with Vlahovic, as with Thiago Motta, it feels like riding a roller coaster. Sometimes very well, sometimes good, sometimes bad, sometimes very bad.
I close with another coach, Vincenzo Italiano. It was clear that he had a thousand and one reasons for wanting to beat his Fiorentina. But his attitudes during the race and at the end appeared out of tune. We don’t pretend to have all Ancelotti on the bench but a minimum of respect for a club and a fan base with which he spent three years together was reasonable to expect. Italian instead scored a sad own goal.