Injury emergency: this is how Napoli will play the Scudetto match against Atalanta | First page
It is now total emergency. Napoli is counting the injured players. Spalletti draws with Sassuolo and remains first in the standings alone (albeit with Milan and Inter ever closer), but must register the stops of the captain insignia (hardening in the calf), Fabian Ruiz (adductor problem) e Koulibaly (flexor problem). Three key players for Napoli, who has already been without Manolas for over a month, lost Politano to Covid for two weeks (returned but still not at his best), and lost Osimhen for three months and Anguissa probably until January.
TOWARDS ATALANTA – There are many injuries, even if only numerically. But most of all they are heavy injuries, which, as mentioned, affect the backbone of the team: Koulibaly, Anguissa and Osimhen, even them alone would be hard absences to digest. If we then add the sparkling Fabian of this period and captain Insigne, the picture becomes almost tragic. Also because Spalletti feels the breath on the neck of Milan and Inter, respectively at -1 and -2, and on Saturday evening he faces Gasperini’s Atalanta at Maradona. Very fast, to say the least.
TRAINING – How will Napoli line up? Ospina is immovable, in front of him the tireless Di Lorenzo and Mario Rui on the outside. In the center, complicating the recovery of Koulibaly, possible that to flank Rrahmani is Manolas (not summoned with Sassuolo for gastroenteritis, in short, recoverable). The John Jesus seen against Sassuolo can not leave you calm. In the median without Fabian Ruiz (And Anguissa) next to Lobotka it should be deployed Demme. On the trocar insignia could recover (optimism filtration on the captain). Should I not make it, the most credible hypothesis for Atalanta is to see Lozano left and Politano right, with Zielinski to float behind Mertens And Elmas bench card. These are the first indications, the exams to which Koulibaly, Fabian and Insigne will be subjected in the hours will further clarify.