Pescara were always going to be one of the favourites to go straight back down having only come up to Serie A via the play-offs but they have managed to fail quite spectacularly even by the pre-season expectations. With just 3 wins on the board from their 38 league matches, they amassed one of the lowest points totals for any team in the top flight for many a year. In fact, only two of those three wins came on the pitch and one of them was after they'd already mathematically gone down against fellow relegated side Palermo. Another of their victories came off the pitch as a defeat to Sassuolo was overturned to a 3-0 win due to the Neroverdi fielding an ineligible player. Their other win was by far and away the highlight of their season. A 5-0 win over Genoa on Zdenek Zeman's return to the club would never be followed up on or topped. Zeman had guided Pescara to glories in the past but, in truth, he was left with a sinking ship that had no real chance to staying afloat. He took over after 24 games in the season where Massimo Oddo had left the team on a meagre 6 points so it was more a damage limitation job for the veteran Czech coach. Zeman has said he wants to remain next season and rebuild but he'll probably have to do it without Gianluca Caprari whose very respectable tally of 8 league goals will surely have bigger clubs sniffing around for his services. Pescara have been the perennial "yo-yo" club in recent years and their ultimate aim will be to gain promotion and then consolidate themselves as a Serie A team but there's a lot of work to be done for that to happen.
