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Never like this time, Mihajlovic and his team have had to work hard to always maintain a set-up on the field capable of countering a modest opponent of individual qualities but very physically toned.
The Ligurians, with the usual 4-3-3 scholastic but dynamic and aggressive, have failed to make fun of Rossoblù (19 fouls are huge), who have resisted the physical confrontation with difficulty, however putting more possession on the ball field (54%) and fewer dribbling errors (77% against 66% of rivals), 9 shots of which 5 on goal (7 and 4 for La Spezia).
I present these data to you to show that, despite the endless absences, the Bolognese squad is made up of on average more technical players: probably, with a few more field options, the game could have had a different development.
He was talking about tactical deviations: he started with 4-2-3-1 but with unprecedented outside players (Palacio on the right and Vignato on the left), after 35 minutes Sinisa repeated what he saw against Roma, returning Palacio to the center of the attack, Barrow on the left wing and Vignato on the opposite side.
In the second half there were other tactical novelties: defense at 3 with Medel, Danilo and Paz, median at 4 with the withdrawal of Soriano paired with Domínguez, and Vignato under the lead for an unprecedented 3-4-1-2.
But that’s not all, because the last part of the match saw Svanberg on the left with Tomiyasu moving to the right, to complete the median alongside Poli and Baldursson, De Silvestri’s retreat on defense and Soriano behind the attackers (Barrow -Palace first, Barrow-Rabbi in the end).
In short, two modules with a whirlwind of players employed in multiple positions, which shows how Mihajlovic and his collaborators also know how to find alternative solutions, when the emergency requires it.
Unfortunately, the difficulties in finding the right defensive countermeasures do not change, but here we enter a topic that perhaps deserves a separate article. We can briefly underline how having to adapt to each game different players in positions that are not exactly pleasant does not help to find that balance that struggles, however, also due to the offensive vocation of the chosen structures: the simultaneous use of many marking elements Offensive ability reveals that in addition to passive counterattacks, positional defense is structured more to recover the ball than to absorb the opponent’s attacks.
Returning to the game, we saw less aggression ahead than in the best times, but we cannot ignore the fatigue of some players who play without interruption, and of a Spezia that makes compactness, short departments, lack. His way of interpreting the matches is recurrent and reinitiated: against the Ligurians the rivals rarely fight, because the Italians force you to an intense, physical and dirty football, and if you are not athletically at their level it becomes tough.
In conclusion, the Bologna game seemed to me, given the moment, very serious, interpreted with a lot of suffering without ever giving up, the best answer to those who thought that the players had a certain perplexity (I use a euphemism) towards their coach: in that case , the 2-0 ‘they would have given it’ (as we say here). Instead, they not only recovered the double disadvantage, but also threw victory to the winds, mistaking the usual penalty that would have ‘cured’ Benevento’s undeserved defeat or Olimpico’s knockout against Lazio.
It will be for another time, we cannot ‘steal’ anything … But the reassuring image is that in 94 ‘, at 2-2, Bologna was in attack!
Tosco – www.madeinbo.tv
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