The Cagliari coach, Claudio Ranieri, highlighted the work of the Italian-Peruvian striker, Gianluca Lapadula, at the start of his second spell at the club, which is seeking promotion to the Italian first division. The DT assured a modification in the attack system with the ‘baby‘ as a performer in the game.
Ranieri managed Cagliari between 1988 and 1991, he returned to the club in December 2022. The strategist arrives in Sardinia to replace the outgoing coach Fabio Liverani in search of achieving promotion to Serie A and for this he trusts the ‘Bambino’ and another attacker that he has on his squad as Leonardo Pavolettiwhom he considers to be above second division level in Italy and announced that he will play with double ‘9’ on his team.
“We have two great strikers in lapadula and Pavoletti and I want to put both of them on the field. Others will have to adjust to all this. Few can afford to have two giants like that in Serie B,” Ranieri, 71, said at a press conference.
The Premier League champion with Leicester City in the 2015-2016 season expressed his joy at returning to the club ‘redjiazul’ after more than three decades. “I am happy, excited to be able to sit on this bench again. There was a tidal wave inside me, there were indelible emotions from my previous trip. cagliari is the city that made me grow”, said the DT.
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The former soccer player is also clear about the immediate goal of the institution: to return to Serie A just one year after the loss of the category. “The classification is always true. He says what the current value of the team is. We have to try to get closer to the tournament leaders. In Cagliari today, the objective is one: we have to go up. I will ask my players to give it their all in every training session”.
After the break for Christmas parties, the cast ‘Sardinian’ will return to the pitch next Saturday, January 14, when they host Como at the Arena Sardinia Stadium. That match will mark Ranieri’s second debut in office.
The first round of the B-series Y Cagliari It is located in the eleventh box of the standings with 25 points in 19 games played as a result of six wins, the same number of losses and seven draws.
Lapadula’s team is eleven units away from the direct promotion positions, currently occupied by Frosinone and Reggina. From third to eighth place they dispute a play off for promotion to the first division and Cagliari is only one point behind Ternana.
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Despite the irregular campaign of Cagliari, Gianluca Lapadula He has stood out in the tournament for his goals. The footballer of the peruvian team He accumulates nine goals and two assists in 20 games played so far in the 2022-2023 season. He is the top scorer in the squad.
His attack partner, Leonardo Pavoletti, signed for more than 9 million euros in 2017, has played 18 games so far this season and scored four goals in 768 minutes.
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