Let’s talk about this Riccardo Braschi thing
Whether or not a 19-year-old plays at the end of this season isn’t what we’re really arguing about, is it?
Imagine denying this nice local boy a chance to get beaten up by guys 10 years older than him. | Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images Fiorentina’s season has been woeful at a level we couldn’t have imagined back in September. There’s enough blame to go around that everyone in the club can have second or third helpings but for now, I want to focus on the strikers.
At the start of the year, I was confident that the Viola were well-stocked up front. Moise Kean had been the best striker in Serie A the previous year. Roberto Piccoli, while overpriced, was a competent top flight center forward.
Edin Džeko offered a Plan B and leadership. Albert Guðmundsson was there too. Fast forward 9 months and my feelings about the strikers have flipped.
Kean’s been dealing with injuries all year, which may explain his miserable numbers. Per Understat , he’s mere decimal points away from obtaining the largest xG underperformance since the site started publishing the metric in 2014-2015. The only player in the database with a larger xG underperformance is also on this roster, by the way.
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