On the Napoli-Bologna field for the Sunday postponement of the 26th matchday of Serie A
Ubn minute of silence and mourning for Pavinato
- In memory of Mirko Pavinato, the Bologna captain of the last Scudetto who died this morning at the age of 86, tonight in Naples, the rossoblùs of Sinisa Mihajlovic will wear mourning on the arm and before the kick-off the two teams will observe a minute of silence. Mirko Pavinato, captain of Bologna of the last Scudetto: that of 1964. Born in 1934, born in Vicenza and raised in football in Lanerossi, Pavinato arrived in Bologna in 1956, to become a column of the team of the then president From the Ara.
He won a Mitropa Cup in '61 and the following year the president of Inter Angelo Moratti offered 300 million to bring him to Inter, an incredible figure for the times.
Pavinato remained in the Rossoblu, became captain and in 1964 he graduated as Italian champion with Bologna, in the play-off on 7 June: precisely against Inter who would have wanted him two years earlier.
SO ON THE EVE
After the sensational defensive slip in the last minute of the match against Sassuolo and the internal controversies of the team that arose due to Insigne's reaction against his own teammates, Napoli is ready to dive back into the championship with the desire to forget what happened.
In the rooms of the Technical Center of Castel Volturno there was a clarification, hoped for by Gattuso, between the captain and the rest of the team.
Insigne explained his gesture and his words, captured by the cameras and interpreted thanks to the reading of the lip, with the anger and despair resulting from the lack of victory.
The climate, however, continues not to be completely serene and a further testimony of this electricity that is perceived in the air comes from Mario Rui's departure from the training ground.
Gattuso, having detected a lack of commitment from the Portuguese, sent him prematurely in the shower.
The blue coach is not new to similar behaviors and Mario Rui himself, together with Ghoulam, had already suffered the same fate this season during a training session faced with poor concentration.
On Sunday evening at the 'Maradona' with Bologna, Gattuso will finally be able to find Osimhen who has done the entire training session in a group.
The experience of Sanremo did not make him forget the bitterness of the knockout with Cagliari.
On the eve of the away match in Naples, Sinisa Mihajlovic tries to shake up the team: "An honor to have been in Sanremo, but Bologna is a psychiatrist, it drives me out of my mind. Play with Lazio, the strongest team, play the game and win . Three days later, with the same players, in Cagliari the same team cannot make that performance. It is a question of mental attitude and unfortunately it happens often. We need patience and time: meanwhile our story says that when there is a need for one step forward we can't do it. You can have technical qualities and game identity, but if your attitude is wrong, you don't go anywhere and you can't have a mental attitude one day a week. "
Mihajlovic is hard on his team and demands a reaction: "In Naples I want to see the team that beat Lazio again. I'm not talking about the result, because with the strongest teams there is a loss. I'm talking about attitude, performance, character and identity." .
Some changes in sight are looming: "But we don't have many solutions. We have several injured players who we don't know when they will return: Dijks, Tomiyasu, Hickey, Santander and Faragò, who have never had one. We have to see Dominguez and Baldursson."
Also added is the disqualification of Schouten, who reopens the doors of the starting eleven at Poli, with Svanberg in the median.
Up front, a bit of a turnover is likely: with Skov Olsen for Orsolini and Palacio for Barrow.
Probable formations of Napoli-Bologna
Naples
(4-3-3): 25 Ospina, 22 Di Lorenzo, 44 Manolas, 26 Koulibaly, 31 Ghoulam, 5 Bakayoko, 4 Demme, 20 Zielinski, 21 Politano, 9 Osimhen, 24 Insigne.
(1 Meret, 16 Contini, 23 Hysaj, 33 Rrahmani, 19 Maksimovic, 38 Costanzo, 6 Mario Rui, 68 Lobotka, 8 Ruiz, 7 Elmas, 3 Zedadka, 14 Mertens, 58 Cioffi).
Coach: Gattuso.
Disqualified: none.
Beware: Demme, Di Lorenzo, Lozano.
Unavailable: 11 Lozano, 37 Petagna.
Bologna
(4-2-3-1): 28 Skorupski, 29 De Silvestri, 23 Danilo, 5 Soumaoro, 15 Mbaye, 16 Poli, 32 Svanberg, 11 Skov Olsen, 21 Soriano, 10 Sansone, 99 Barrow.
(1 Da Costa, 34 Ravaglia, 17 Medel, 26 Antov, 68 Khailoti, 77 Annan, 7 Orsolini, 55 Vignato, 24 Palacio, 80 Juwara).
Coach: Mihajlovic.
Suspended: Schouten.
Beware: Tomiyasu.
Unavailable: Baldursson, Dijks, Dominguez, Faragò, Hickey, Santander, Tomiyasu.
Referee: Chiffi of Padua
