Nonostante l’infortunio di Zapata risalente a ottobre, il Torino di Vanoli segna comunque di più di quello dell’ultimo anno di Juric
Five and a half months have passed since Inter-Torino, the night when the granata’s season was turned upside down. 168 days since the very bad injury of Zapata, who in order to go and retrieve a ball near the corner flag broke his cruciate ligament. Since that night everything has changed: the team’s ambitions have been scaled back, it has entered a cycle of games without victories, and many teammates, with his absence, have begun to struggle. Because Zapata was not only a technical leader but also a charismatic one, and it is no coincidence that he received the captain’s armband after only one season since his arrival. As mentioned, since that October 5, Toro began to struggle especially in scoring goals, but arrived now at the month of March we can say how the team, although not completely, has recovered.
Il confronto con le altre squadre
34 goals scored, an average of 1.17 per game that has increased especially in the last 5 games. A figure that places Vanoli’s boys 13th in the special ranking of the entire Serie A, with only the teams fighting not to relegate behind them. Definitely not a good result, but at the basis of this Vanoli certainly has two clear alibis: having played for three months – until January – without a real forward, and not having received a real forward from the market. Despite this, the coach continued to work to the best of his ability, even twisting his tactics in order to find a solution, and in a way he succeeded.
E con lo scorso anno
Not only has he succeeded, but he is also definitely doing better than last year’s Juric (who at the same time did not have all these problems). In fact, last season, at this point in the championship, only 28 goals had been scored: less than one per game, the result of the many 0-0 scores and the Croatian coach’s purely defensive play. Now, however, the music has changed, and to think that with an extra Zapata the number of goals would certainly have been higher.
Duvan Zapata of Torino FC looks on prior to the Serie A football match between FC Internazionale and Torino FC.
