Livorno Leftovers ; The Week That Was

By: Marco Stucazzo | September 29th, 2008

Another loss less week and 2 points added to the board. Livorno managed to tie Bari 0-0 last Tuesday and obtained the same scoreline on Saturday in the Derby with Grosseto.

I can’t say that I’m happy with the results but at least we’re still unbeaten in Serie B. The game versus Bari saw Acori juggle with many notable absences. Francesco Tavano played awfully but to his defence he was left alone for a large part of the game.

Thanks to Alfonso De Lucia, Livorno managed to come back home with one point. Even Leonardo Acori claimed that Livorno was lucky to get the draw against a surprisingly lively and combative Bari side. We can now officially add them to the list of realistic Serie A hopefuls. Antonio Conte is really doing something special with this Bari side.
I didn’t manage to see the game and I don’t have any highlights or stats for you so let’s move on to yet another Tuscan Derby…

But don’t forget www.livornochannel.com for un-embeddable full highlights…

Livorno 0-0 Grosseto.

The positive thing is the clean sheets. Livorno’s defense is solid and if it weren’t for Acerbis’s crazy display in front of Grosseto’s net, Livorno would have taken all 3 points from this game. As predicted, Francesco Tavano disappeared and The Lithuanian Non-sensation Danilevicius managed to choke in front of an easy goal like only he can ! Diamanti’s zigzagging and Bonetto’s daring runs didn’t manage to get the win.

LIVORNO-GROSSETO 0-0

LIVORNO (4-3-2-1): De Lucia 6; Rosi 6, Grandoni , Perticone 6,5, Bonetto 6,5; Pulzetti 6 (32’ st A. Filippini 4), Loviso 5 (7’ st Migliorini 6,5), Candreva 6 (41’ st E.Filippini sv); Diamanti 7, Tavano 5,5; Danilevicius 5. A disp: Mazzoni, Miglionico, A. Filippini, E.Filippini, Migliorini, Volpe, Paulinho. All. Acori 5,5.

GROSSETO (4-1-4-1): Acerbis 6,5; Freddi 6, Porchia 6, Stendardo 6, Abruzzese 6; Cordova 6; Gessa 6,5,Valeri 6 (24’ pt Vitiello 6,5), Consonni 6,5, Gessa 6,5 (38’ pt Sansovini 6), Lazzari 6; Sforzini 5,5 (32’ st Pichlmann sv). A disp: Caparco, Federici, Vitiello, Carparelli, Suppa, Sansovini, Pichlmann. All. Gustinetti 6,5.

The thing is that defence is solid with Grandoni and a surprisingly excellent Perticone, Nicola Candreva’s playing well enough that he should start giving Tavano and the Lithuanian a run for their starting shirt soon, Pulzetti and Diamanti are starting to add continuity to their good play and Aleandro Rosi is a pleasant surprise at left back. All we need is for Tavano to show up more than once every 5 games, Danilevicius needs to start bagging those easy goals and Massimo Loviso needs to step it up a notch and remind us why he was once an Italian U21 regular.

We’re still in 10th place with 9 points and have an important game against Empoli, that’s right a 3rd Tuscan derby in 3 weeks….

Forza Labronici !

Now on to Livorno for the Coppa Italia…