Serie A Weel 27 Discussion Thread

In the scale of performances, Giovinco's performance was quite good, not oustanding, so special or great. But he was more or less their whole attacking engine. He didnt go and dribble the defence on his own as he can, he mainly limited it to running Oddo down til he was half-dead (regarding Maldini, Giovinco left him behind too in one counter when Maldini was last D).

But his main contribution was being the reason why Empoli could maintain that high pace and counters. They could run all the time, but it wouldnt have gone anywhere if it wasnt for his passing and Abate's individual runs. The pressure they had on you and dominating you in parts was exactly due to having someone intelligent enough to make those well-timed passes that made their counters smooth. They attacked so much or had the ball so much in the first half that you couldnt even get the ball to attack anything more then a minute of losing the ball. Empoli didnt finish their attacks that well, but Saudati for some reason had little presence in the box despte the support he had behind him, at times it was like Giovinco and Abate was strikers, because they couldnt pass Saudati because he was nowhere to be seen. Would have been different with Pozzi. Their counters would have a final destination more then.