Palermo-Licata 2-1: bright pink, wasteful and winning! Felici and Santana light up the Barbera …

The Palermo embeds the eighth piece of its precious mosaic. Perhaps the most significant and precious of those placed and polished in this first part of the season. Unpublished and special in shape and shine. For the first time, with such caliber and continuity, the Pergolizzi team managed to reconcile the quality of the game and the importance of the result. Success from the inestimable specific weight in the presence of an adversary of clear value in terms of technical figure and game organization.

A great Palermo was right for a nice Licata. Exercise of synthesis that explicit lineage and enjoyment of a challenge that has expressed contents generally worthy of very different categories. The hosts have strung together the eighth consecutive victory of the championship, consolidating a transversal and undisputed leadership that fully legitimizes the ambition of immediate return in the hemisphere of professional football. A Palermo that showed a different face, in the presence of an adversary who willingly accepted the frontal challenge, without resorting to particular conservative tactics on the tactical and attitude plane. The Licata tried to play his cards, he never gave up proposing himself, he suffered the drumming of a Palermo objectively superior, trying anyway to maintain a proactive attitude. In the presence of greater inter-spaces and depths, Palermo has exalted technical skills, dribbling properties, and caratage of its individuality. Toned, intense, aggressive rosanero structure. Harmonious and overflowing landlords in the weaving of their own maneuver, capable of reaching peaks of fluidity and quality in phrasing, on a ballistic level and exquisitely aesthetic, objectively new with respect to what was seen in the previous releases. The solid, cynical and concrete team, not beautiful but winning, generally admired in the first seven days, gave way to a brilliant, maneuvering and dominant line-up, able to create an unspecified number of offensive plots and as many goal balls, unfortunately with too low a percentage of realization. Three sensational chances in the first twenty minutes, with Santana, Lancini and Ricciardo, clumsily bankrupt and paid shortly afterwards at a high price. As from the canonical law of football, cynical and inexorable, the Licata hit the giant wasted with the Maltese pumpkin. Pelagotti had passed a few seconds earlier, on what will prove to be a mocking prelude to the guest advantage. The aspect that once again impressed the public and the experts was the immediate and vehement reaction of the tournament leaders. If point and teased in pride, this Palermo tears its opponent apart with surprising ferocity and rapidity. Self-esteem and awareness of one's own means multiply energies and motivational inputs. As in Biancavilla, the rosanero only takes a couple of clock cycles. To water down the ambitions of the contender on duty and remember who is in charge of the green rectangle in this category. Two ballistic pearls of rare beauty to restore score and hierarchies. The first sharp in Sicily of the talent of Felici, dry dribbling on the direct marker and surgical diagonal, restores parity. Santana stops time and takes away the breath of those who love football a few seconds later: hook with the mastic of its crystalline class the launch with Martin's tachometer, gently caresses with the left-handed the ball, whispering a lob, sweet and mocking, that inflates the net and the heart of a Barbera entranced by the Argentinian's unimaginable talent.

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FIRST HALF – Big match and great bargain audience at the "Barbera" in this mild and sunny Sunday in mid-October. The Palermo of Rosario Pergolizzi, undisputed leaders of the group and a real steamroller of the tournament, he wants to lengthen his exhilarating success strip and further discourage the pursuers. Among the most square and brilliant formations of this season start there is today's adversary of the rosanero, that Licata which currently occupies the fourth place, paired with the Savoia, with fourteen points achieved in the seven races held so far. The historic friendship between the two supporters makes the atmosphere even more pleasant, giving a suggestive frame to the one that promises to be a challenge with remarkable contents, technical, tactical and competitive, in relation to the standards of the category. Pergolizzi opts for the now customary 4-3-3: Pelagotti between the posts, Doda and Vaccaro low outside, Lancini-Crivello central couple in the heart of the rearguard. Standard asset also in the nerve zone: Intermediate playmaker Martin, Kraja and Martinelli. The offensive trident is composed of Santana and Felici large with Ricciardo central terminal.

The start of the match does not betray the expectations, the two teams face each other with a proactive nature and good linearity in tacking the maneuver. To mark a clear territorial supremacy is the Palermo of Rosario Pergolizzi. Short, toned and aggressive, the rosanero team immediately imposes intense and drumming rhythms to the match. Martin dictates times and traces with his usual skill, Kraja and Martinelli rage under pressure on the sphere and feed the seam of the wefts, Doda and Vaccaro overlap with continuity on the lanes, Santana and Felici immediately show effervescence and brio of the best days. The Palermo creates at least three sensational goal balls in the first twenty minutes: first Santana closes the right foot too diagonally, then Lancini hits the head too weakly in the heart of the area, so Ricciardo blatantly fails the two-footed cross-shot to the kiss of the 'Argentine.

The Licata he hobbles and grits his teeth, waiting for the storm to pass. The Gialloblu team faces dangerously from the sides of Pelagotti, the house porter gets excited about Absinthe and deviates for a corner after the uncertainty of Doda. Just on the following ball inactive the Licata finds the advantage: Maltese he takes the time to the pink defense and sends his parents into orbit with a winning pumpkin. Point in pride, the Palermo shows ego, muscle and reaction capacity once again. Felici he burns his direct opponent in dribbling and shoots a surgical and winning diagonal. As to Biancavilla, the Palermo he places two instant and feral slaps. The overtaking goal is a pearl of rare beauty, worthy of other categories: Santana magically hook a remote-controlled launch of Martin and whispers a lob, sweet and mocking, combing the net behind the far defender guest.