Today’s session, completely open to the media, allowed us to highlight the positive and very attentive management that Gennaro Gattuso is adopting towards Aubameyang and Vitinha, his main strikers, who lack confidence and success in front of goal.
“Marca Vito, Marca!! Mui bien, Pierre, mui bien!!” (“Marc, Vito. Very good, Pierre!!”). Through a voice, a few words of affection or small gestures of attention, Gennaro Gattuso is trying to regain the trust of his main strikers, Vitinha and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
The performance of the Olympic scorers was not as hoped, especially in the French League (1 for Aubameyang, 2 for Vitenha). So every detail and every encouragement is important. Gattuso takes great care of the Portuguese and Gabonese.
Aubameyang praised his high speed
On the other hand, the Italian coach, who does not hesitate to “move” Leo Balerdi when he restarts and positions himself, and who raises his voice when Onahi keeps the ball too much, wants to be positive with his attackers. Lack of success will not be remedied by applying more pressure. This is one of the main lessons of the training, which opened in full on Wednesday at the leadership.
During a quick training session, Aubameyang shows that he is still superior to everyone, and Gattuso reinforces, encourages and congratulates him loud and clear. During each workshop, even when the passing circle does not suit him, the Italian always insists Vitinha and Aubameyang to maintain the reflex of methodically driving the ball into the goal. Gattuso wants his attackers to get used to scoring the net regardless of the circumstances or actions, even the most trivial or easy.
Vitinha falls into the arms of Gattuso’s representatives after a series of goals scored
Today’s session ended with a workshop on strikes and shots, which were requested by the strikers and some of the team’s executives: Aubameyang, Vitinha, Gueye, Virtue, Gigot, Onahi. In goals, a young man from the generation of 2005: Brahim Gomez, originally from Thonon (Haute-Savoie) and playing in Marseille since this summer. Passersby and middle? Gattuso, of course. Success is not always there, but the OM coach, who is very friendly to some, shows particular enthusiasm when “Pierre” and “Vito”, as he calls them, score.
This afternoon, after a run of three successive goals, the Portuguese fell – all smiles – into the arms of Gattuso’s assistants, as happened on the evening of a match. Gattuso is not shy about his attack. He identified a lack of accuracy in the final 30 metres. This is his main concern, but the Italian is convinced that what he misses is first and foremost the animation and accuracy of scoring goals. The Italian coach maintains his confidence in his attackers, and waits for the trigger.
