Fagioli, Fiorentina-Juve from ex: from Motta to Palladino has changed

Not even the time to dry out from the rain on Thursday and to celebrate the qualification in the quarterfinals of the Conference League that Fiorentina must go down again in the championship and reopen the gates of the Franchi, this time at Juve. The international chapter closes, that of an infinite rivalry that this time – for both – risks having a considerable weight for the European ambitions of the next season. Extra motivations therefore, especially for those who find themselves in front of their past like Nicolò Fagioli. But unlike other colleagues such as Vlahovic, Nico Gonzalez or Kean, for the midfielder it will be the first time as a ex, despite not being (still) a one hundred percent a Fiorentina player.

After eleven years in Turin (“Fantastic years, of pure passion and pure love”) last January felling. It all happened after a call paternal With Allegri and ten minutes from the end of the winter session of a transfer market that has allowed beans to find a new home to relaunch himself and its ambitions. Of purple and blue. Yes, because where the personal and team goals meet, the national team becomes a goal like Europe (there is the conference to be won and any qualification for a continental competition to be obtained to automatically trigger its redemption from Juve).

how it was and how it is

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From a feeling never born with Motta to the great consideration that Palladino has of him. The Turin-Florence one-way trip for the midfielder also changed his relationship with the technical guide. And where there is no support for the statements, the numbers arrive to clarify: Fiorentina plays on average about twenty minutes more in every game and in more than half of the occasions he was deployed owner (4 times out of 7), while Juve took the field from the first minute 7 times out of 22. Less than a third of the games played. Motta did not see him and he ended up on the edge, complete with chopped Collective: “It is up to them to participate and deserve to play,” Thiago said at the end of January talking about those who found less space. A month (and a transfer) later, Palladino praised his reinforcement in midfield: “Fagioli is always growing, for me he is a champion, he has great technique, sees football. He is making us raise the level of the team”. Midfielder in the first two outputs in purple, then he retraced it on the midfield line. He admitted that he is also well there in front of the defense whether you play three and with a two -way line, but what he appreciates more about Palladino is that “he speaks so individually with everyone” and is trying to sew on him – without pressure – a role that can become increasingly central, even in fact. That director who served Fiorentina and who needed to feel important again.