PALLADINO, HIS “REAL MEN” AND A DREAM THAT MUST BE FUELED: IT’S FORBIDDEN TO HAVE DIZZY

The victory over Genoa is not one of those that makes you frown for the beauty or for the immense amount of play and opportunities but it certainly makes them frown when looking at the table and the way and patience with which the team obtained the three points.

The ranking – The statistics say that Fiorentina had not been third after ten matches for almost ten years, i.e. since the 2015-16 season when Paulo Sousa was on the Viola bench. That team could have become champions in the winter, then in January, due to a transfer market that was insufficient for the needs of the coach and the team, it slowly crumbled, a bit like last year, and this must also be a lesson for the current Fiorentina. If there is to help the team, this time the management will have to do it.

Avoid dizziness – Adlì is right to say that it is only the beginning and that we must continue to work hard because staying at the top is not easy. In short, beware of suffering from vertigo and giving up. On the other hand, both he and Palladino underlined how Fiorentina is a team of “real men”, ready to suffer to manage the match and to help each other to bring home three points.

Race and group management ok – The management of matches, against the small teams and against the big teams, at home and away, has become a strong point of Fiorentina, just as the management of the group has become Palladino’s strong point who knows how to involve even those who have little space. Fourth is the emblem of an injured player with little initial feeling with the coach (given the technical choices) but who feels part of a group. And Palladino must be said to be good at this, as well as for the fact that this Fiorentina entertains and enthralls, even when it doesn’t shine.

Optimism but awareness of limits – There are reasons to be optimistic and, at least for this day, it is an optimism that must be nourished and which must make even skeptics dream; the important thing is that the team never loses this spirit and that the club knows what to do in January because some limitations were visible in this match too. When Kean is missing the team suffers and the group cannot always make up for his absence as it did in the last two matches.