Better a point than an extra defender. For those can be found and at the limit the helmet is dropped there behind Marten de Roon. He was right, Gian Piero Gasperini, to beat the drum on strikers on the sidelines of the winter reopening of the soccer market window. Now it’s time to plan for what’s left of Atalanta’s season without Mateo Retegui on one or two of the last nine days. Because the roster does not have another area and back-to-goal center forward even if you look for him with a lantern.
Gli attaccanti non presi o non arrivati
In fact, having let Nicolò Zaniolo leave for Florence certainly not without the assent of the man on the bench, not even that Rayan Cherki who would have reduced Lyon’s financial disruption by adding class and imagination to a department that net of the big three, De Ketelaere and Lookman included, of incoming alternatives since January has had only Daniel Maldini. The son of the art, between physical condition and time to fit in, has not been a good choice so far, certainly through no fault of anyone in particular.
Il vice Retegui che non è mai esistito
The fact remains that a backup for Chapita absolutely had to be found. Not that they come to you and offer them on a silver platter, the strikers. It’s a matter of chances and readiness or willingness to invest. Gianluca Scamacca’s new Feb. 1 crack happened too far under close of business to tick off any Everton’s Beto Betuncal. How to go from legitimately aspiring for a sixth role forward to finding yourself with only four in a heartbeat. Choices, timing to review, even bad luck. But now that the national team has added its own good ballast to it, apart from the cash compensation that Zingonia will be gamely granted, who do we come up with up front there? Vanja Vlahovic? To the Gasp the arduous judgment.
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