The coach’s debut on the Ligurian bench shows a solid team despite Kouda’s expulsion. Third consecutive useful result for the Apulians
He didn’t get his first home win, but built an interesting manifesto of solidity. Donadoni’s first Spezia draws a draw: 1-1 at home with Bari, but the feeling is that Roberto immediately struck the right chords. Because his team went down at dawn and played almost 60 minutes with the man less, but even when outnumbered they created the best chances of the match. Il Picco applauds a combative Spezia who is no longer last in the standings (for now); Bari finds the third useful result in a row but suffers from sterility just when the scenario seemed ideal for an away victory that has been missing since February 22nd.
kouda cross and delight
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Donadoni uses the shears for the first formation in black and white: he changes the goalkeeper (Mascardi for Sarr), throws Kouda in the middle and replaces the injured Lapadula with Di Serio up front. On the other side Caserta, fresh from two successes in a row, dust off Verreth and Gytkjaer. And it was immediately rewarded: 7′ into the game, a cross from the first to the second who headed in from close range and put the red and whites ahead. However, Spezia’s Dante-like retaliation continues: last year the Ligurians were the undisputed masters of dead balls, but this time they become victims for the eleventh goal out of 16 conceded so far this season. Donadoni doesn’t correct the trend, but Kouda gets the move right, because the midfielder equalizes the score in the 37th minute after Vlahovic’s splendid outburst on the right. The problem is that Kouda represents the delight, but above all the cross of the Bianconeri, because he gets two yellows in the space of five minutes: the second especially naive, a late foul on Maggiore. And Spezia goes to rest with one man less.
regrets
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We start again as we finished: with the two contenders willing to sink rather than wait. Di Serio shoots from afar but finds Cerofolini, Verreth shoots around and just misses the target. The rhythm then begins to break down, thanks to a suspension of the game between the 58th and 61st minutes due to the fall of a fan into the ditch between the pitch and the stands. It resumes after the rescue with Bari logically raising the center of gravity, in search of an away victory that has been missing for 8 and a half months (1-0 in Mantua). The problem for the Apulians is that the best opportunities are tinged with black and white: Di Serio sends it high from two steps, Vlahovic slams into Cerofolini. Spezia, despite the man less, complains about the lack of inaccuracy at the best, while Bari tries a desperate assault in the ten minutes of added time: in the 99th minute Nikolaou and Moncini clear the ball from zero meters after a corner. So regrets also get on the red and white bus.
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