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“It’s not just a question of form if the outsiders don’t gallop you have to change”

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Sky columnist Matteo Marani talks about the championship after the first 7 days, from the exemplary 4-2-3-1 of Napoli to the 3-5-2 of Udinese

THE INTERVIEW

The second stop arrives, the Italy champion of Europe is preparing for the Nations League, but in the meantime the championship has already outlined the profiles of its protagonists, to the point that it can already draw a first balance that not even Luca’s Udinese escapes Gotti. An attentive observer such as Matteo Marani, a Sky columnist and president of the Foundation of the Italian Football Museum in Coverciano, lent itself to the task.

Marani, can seven days be enough to affirm that the Italian league is changing its face compared to the last editions?

“Absolutely yes. In the meantime, there is a change of hierarchies attested by the duel between Napoli and the two Milanese, which refers us to the epic challenges between Maradona and the Dutch side’s AC Milan at the end of the 1980s, after the face-off between Juventus and Inter ».

There is no shortage of news on the level of the game …

«They are in line with the European offer. Some parameters have changed and the Italian teams are showing more courage, as can be seen from certain results and from games that are never closed even with two or three goals ahead. In my opinion, the decisive and innovative factor is related to the five substitutions available that become a very powerful weapon, because they allow you to change 40 or even 50 percent of the starting line-up. And so I think about how Inzaghi’s Inter made the first and last matches in Verona turn in their favor with Sassuolo, and how Allegri instead admitted some difficulties ».

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On a purely tactical level instead?

“The most enterprising is undoubtedly Napoli, which plays with the three midfielders behind the striker, and it is also the team that is playing the most beautiful football by virtue of a magnificent balance based on the median cup made up of Anguissa and Fabian Ruiz in 4 -2-3-1 in support of Lozano, Zielinski and an Insigne who is also a defender ».

Did you notice that Udinese has partially adopted this form against Fiorentina and Sampdoria?

“Yes, and it does not surprise me because I know Luca Gotti, and I know that he too is among the coaches who follow that trend of more proactive football, even if I must say that it is a demanding module”.

Do you think Udinese have the players to support him or will the 3-5-2 win in the end?

«Udinese gives me the idea that if you always play regardless of the form, they have started the season well even if they are paying for De Paul’s absence. The form is important up to a point. The players count and the outsiders must gallop, otherwise you change, as did the Italian who could not ask Callejon to get the whole band in his new Fiorentina ».

Marani, we also notice many changes in performance, with teams that change face and result from one round to another, such as Bologna, Udinese’s next opponent.

«It is a strange team, with a very high technical potential, capable of deserving a draw in Bergamo and catching the first of the six goals scored against Inter on the counterattack in Milan. On Sunday he blocked Lazio on the flanks playing at five and the impression is that when Bologna is willing to suffer they score points ».

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In your opinion, has the purposeful game of Mancini’s national team been the driving force in the league too?

«With his courage Mancini was anti-historical, offering an enterprising, European proposal. And emulation leads others to follow its direction, especially in the organization ».

Surprises and disappointments …

«Fiorentina can finish in the top eight, while Sassuolo got used to us very well and Spezia pays for the technical change. The start of Juve was surprising, but Allegri’s great act of realism brought about the reaction ».

The player to scream?

«Osimhen above all. In recent years there has always been a decisive striker, from Dybala to Ronaldo, to Lukaku ». –

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