Meltdown in Palermo

We’ve all been keeping an eye on the Luigi Del Neri ‘death watch’ for a few weeks and finally it has come to pass—arrividerci, Luigi. I’m curious to see how our trio of Azzurri pool members – Barzagli, Grosso and Zaccardo – respond to the change. They’ve been at the center of the Palermo meltdown this campaign. The team has given up an astonishing number of goals (35, compared to 13 a year ago). People have been harping on Del Neri’s system, but at the end of the day it wasn’t much beyond a standard 4-4-2. The situation bears watching under caretaker Giuseppe Papadopulo.