Does the goal depend on the center forward or on the team? – Corriere.it

In this stadium lost in the middle of the Mediterranean, Gianluca Vialli played his last game for Italy in November 1992. A bit early, for someone who still had many kilometers and many goals in his legs. But relations with coach Sacchi weren’t the best and there were many alternatives, both in the role (Casiraghi) and on the front of attack (Baggio, Signori). It was the season of plenty, a good solution was found anyway. Roberto Mancini today restarts from Mateo Retegui, 24 years old at the end of April, who scored against the English in the only real shot on target on his debut. Dario Baccin, Inter’s deputy director, is also in Malta to see him: the Nerazzurri know the Italian-Argentine very well, given that he is Facundo Colidio’s partner in Tigre (born in 2000) on loan from Inter. Retegui is now more than an idea: in terms of costs (12-15 million) and role in the team, that of the first alternative to Lautaro with whom he can also be complementary, the new blue could in fact be the right man to insert in the offensive department.

Scamacca is not convincing

Gianluca Scamacca, paid 42 million (bonuses included) from West Ham to Sassuolo, instead he’s starting again from the bench and from market rumors: in a few months in the Premier and Conference he hasn’t convinced yet, both in terms of scoring (3 goals) and athletic strength, due to a knee problem that has tormented him since January . After all, the life of the center forward is tough, and he can never disguise his condition: either you arrive a few hundredths of a second before the others on the ball or there’s trouble. While in Under 21 Samuele Mulattieri, born in 2000 and for Inter, with a brace against Serbia confirms the season as a protagonist with Frosinone leaders of Serie B (10 goals and 4 assists), Mario Balotelli provokes and writes on social media that the Italian strikers are there and are in good shape. But if not even his mentor Mancini has relied on him for some time now, the Sion player should ask himself a few questions. And get some answers.

Lukaku’s trio and Vlahovic’s goal

He gave three answers Romelu Lukaku, who welcomed the new Belgium coach Domenico Tedesco with a hat-trick against Sweden’s Ibra (who came on in the final). Big Rom rejoices with his index finger in front of his mouth, asking for silence, but after the disastrous World Cup, it is still too early to take credible and lasting revenge. Those must first come from the Nerazzurri: the goal against Porto in the first leg dragged Inter to the quarter-finals, but Romelu has not yet built the necessary bridge around that to make the return journey from London in the summer, where in the meantime will return at the end of the loan. Of course, for an attacker, the team’s play, the quantity and quality of the supplies that arrive, also count. Dusan Vlakhovic in the national team he manages to exploit the help of his friend Kostic more punctually, who confirms himself as one of the hottest assist men in Europe. The Serbian’s goal against Lithuania is good news for Juve, in the hope that the continuity seen in the autumn will return sooner or later.

a role problem?

That of the centre-forward however remains a life on the wire, a world of tightrope walkers: Alvaro Morata at the World Cup he often started on the bench and failed to avoid elimination against Morocco, while now with the new coach De La Fuente captain of Roja. Robert Lewandowski instead he is winning La Liga in his first year in Barcelona (15 goals and 5 assists), but after the double elimination in the Champions League and Europa League with the blaugrana, he restarted from a noisy 3-0 knockout in Czechoslovakia with his Poland. If even those who have true center forwards don’t know what to do with them, then what makes the role increasingly complicated is not just a problem of the number 9s. But also of those who build the teams around them.