Heading to Cagliari: goal launches Gineitis, may return starter

Verso la partita Torino-Cagliari: Gvidas Gineitis si candida fortemente per partire titolare dopo il gol del Franchi

Against Fiorentina, Torino picked up a golden point because of the way the match had turned out. Down to 10 men and down by one goal, it was Gvidas Gineitis who evened the score with a goal of pure desire and determination. Now heading into Friday night’s match against Cagliari, the 2004-born Lithuanian midfielder is a strong candidate to start in the middle of the field. The number 66 had been injured in Udinese-Torino, where he started as a starter, then missed the matches against Juventus and Parma, infinitely returned to the squad against Fiorentina and took over for Tameze at minute number 12 of the second half. Immediately decisive after bruising his knee on his return to the field. Now he wants to drag his team also against the Sardinians at home.

La situazione in mezzo al campo

Vanoli, compared to the last game, has more choice in the middle of the field, considering that he will also have Linetty back. Ilic, who is injured and in addition there is Spartak Moscow on him, will certainly not be there. Peculiar situation. One starting place in the middle of the field belongs to Ricci, who has not yet missed a Serie A game from the first minute and will not be touched. The other place is being played for by Gineitis, Linetty, and Tameze. The former is the only left-back and has a clear advantage, not to mention that Tameze could also be traded given the little space he has had so far (despite being a starter at Franchi). Linetty, on the other hand, has an expiring contract and will not renew: he will say goodbye to Toro at the end of the season. For this very reason the captain has become Ricci, chosen by Vanoli.

Un gol non a caso

The one in Florence was not a random goal for Gineitis. Juric brought him to the first team from the Primavera team in the 2022/2023 season and in fact molded him. Not surprisingly, Gineitis is very good at stealing the ball from opponents, attacking the ball as soon as it is lost, inspired by a purely man-to-man game. In the training camp in Pinzolo, in the friendly against Modena he had served an assist for Radonjic in just this way. Then in the league he did the same by serving Zapata at San Siro against Inter for the momentary 2-1 goal. Finally, the goal against Fiorentina always came from a ball recovery of his.

Gvidas Gineitis of Torino FC in action during the Serie A football match between Torino FC and AC Monza.

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