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TURIN, ITALY – SEPTEMBER 26: Torino FC head coach Marco Giampaolo watches during the Serie A match between Torino FC and Atalanta BC at Stadio Olimpico di Torino on September 26, 2020 in Turin, Italy. (Photo by Valerio Pennicino / Getty Images)
Zero points after two games: Turin’s start in the championship was what was easy to predict. La granata, in fact, has faced two teams with more quality and more consolidated over time, Fiorentina and especially Atalanta. If the goal is to get away from the worries of last season, now the club will have to give Marco Giampaolo the same two components: time and quality.
Giampaolo certainly needs time: no one has a magic wand and the Abruzzo manager has arrived to rebuild on the rubble of last season. Even more than the tactical transformation, the hardest job that awaits the coach is probably the mental one. In today’s Turin, in fact, old flaws from last season still emerge: first of all, the tendency to get depressed and pull the oars when things start to go wrong. For information ask Moreno Longo: this was the first problem he had to deal with. Giampaolo will have to do the same and the first two games make it clear that more time is needed.
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It takes time, but also quality. Torino has very little, especially in key roles, those where he would be most needed: manager, attacking midfielder, second striker. Giampaolo is a technician with clear ideas that have always accompanied him in recent years, we knew what type he was even before he arrived. He could have continued to enjoy the remaining year of his contract with Milan, but he accepted the challenge with a good certificate of confidence in the club: although he knew he did not have the classic two months of summer ahead of him to lay the foundations for the season. , despite having a team to completely remodel.
Now, however, we need the missing pieces. That we arrived with the team incomplete in key roles at the start of the season is a negative fact. However, there is the obvious mitigating factor of the difficulties of a market hit by Covid. At this point, we can hope that the wait was preparatory to finding good level solutions. Otherwise, the best conditions will not have been established for this season.
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