"denied" a mantra by Conte

“Step by step, step by step. It is a mantra of Antonio Conte, that of continuous and progressive growth. Then, however, the front technician relies on people who tend to skip it, a few steps. That burns stages, which proceeds by "great leaps forward", which makes overtaking and counter-passages ". Thus opened the article of La Gazzetta dello Sport about some Nerazzurri players who missed a few steps and rose to prominence earlier than the others. From Lukaku – debut at the age of 16 in a championship final – up to Esposito, fresh from the first time in the Champions League with much penalty gained. Even Lautaro Martinez is showing great improvements, both under the purely numerical plan – last year, at this point in the season, he had scored only one goal while in the current year the bill already marks 6, a figure that in 2018-2019 reached only in March.

ATTACK – Against Parma, Lautaro will play and with him there will also be Lukaku, although there is still the temptation to field Esposito from the beginning: against the ducal, Vecino will still be out while Asamoah will serve a rest shift. Candreva, Gagliardini, Barella, Biraghi and Bastoni will play. If there was also Esposito, the number of Italians would rise to 6: "a resounding figure (5 the top of the season, against Sassuolo) for recent internal history", la la Rosea comments.