Sicilian newspaper: “Palermo, Francesco’s tiles”

Starting a season with more shadows than light, despite being hailed as Rosanero’s best market success of the summer, and now being hit by an injury that will keep him out for 3-4 weeks: it’s not a good period for Di Francesco, who left the field in the second half after another lackluster performance against Sampdoria. It seemed like a change of song, but it turned out to be a right leg injury: tests carried out yesterday revealed a grade 1 injury to the soleus muscle, followed by the need to undergo physical therapy before starting to train separately again.

The number 17 should return against Ternana (November 26) or Catanzaro (December 1), but his absence leaves a void on the left flank that Corini will now have to fill somehow. The most concrete option for this role concerns the use of Mancuso, who is experiencing a second youth as a left winger, with three goals from the bench and a constant sense of danger for the opposition defense. In Genoa he came very close to the fourth mark of the season with a movement that disorientated the double defenders, but a successful intervention from Stankovic blocked his path: this time Corini should give him a chance from the start, but not necessarily as a striker. in a trident.

Insigne’s difficulties, fresh from another below-expectations performance, have led to some assessments of a change to the formation, which could be the 4-2-3-1 seen in Modena and partly at Ferrari) 0 to 4-4-2 (in the first half against Lecco); in the first case, Mancuso will remain on the left, with Henderson and the number 11 completing the battery of attacking midfielders: in the second, he will advance alongside Brunosi. A move to a 4-3-1-2 is more unlikely, as only the Scot is available as an interpreter behind the strikers (Vasic would be one too, but he won’t be in Brescia’s squad), as is a return to a 3. – 5 -2, never tried out at training camp and there are few players who can adapt quickly.