All in all it was a positive season for Virtus Entella who have always been in the top half of the table ending in 11th position. If the previous one was a season to remember for the Ligurians, who missed by a hair's breadth qualifying for the playoffs ending in 9th position (only one point from the 8th place!), this one could have been even better. There were all the premises for this to happen, the club didn't make many changes during the summer transfer campaign, the most significant being the one on the bench, Aglietti resigned and Breda arrived, but the new coach continued with the same tactics and system of play of his predecessor, the well-oiled 4-3-1-2. So Breda could rely on a group of players who knew each other very well, all knowing the system by heart. They floated all the time inside and outside the playoff zone, a very regular trend that led them to be inside the playoffs just one month from the end...then something strange happened, they unexpectedly collapsed right at the decisive moment of the championship, lost four games in a row and gained only 4 points in the last 7 rounds so slipping definitively out of the playoffs. Hard to say what has suddenly broken, maybe it was just tiredness for a very long and stressful season, or maybe they felt confident to have already hit the target and have slightly lowered their guard not being able anymore to bounce back. Surely weighed the absence of their top scorer Francesco Caputo (18 goals this season!) and the one of captain Michele Troiano, who missed the last rounds as injured. A big mistake made by the club was to get rid of important players during the winter transfer market, full-backs Cheick Keita and Simone Iacoponi left, but the biggest void was left in attack where Aniello Cutolo and Gaetano Masucci were sold, and Andrea Catellani's only arrival did not fill these gaps. Once again the two centre-backs Luca Ceccarelli and Michele Pellizzer were once again among Entella's best players, good at giving solidity and experience to the whole defense. Positive also the season of the two attacking midfielders Luca Tremolada and Najib Ammari who alternated as trequartisti.
