Insigne, merciless numbers: he has four months to leave Naples well. The last move before Toronto | First page
Napoli needs to find the best sign in this second part of the season. Il Magnifico should return to the owner on Sunday in the away match against Venice. The rumors of the renewal, the signing with Toronto and recent injuries have put the blue captain in the hand. So far in the league he has scored 5 goals, all from the spot, and missing it was that incisiveness that made the difference last year.
THE TIRAGGIR – After the European Championship, Treccani coined tiraggir as a neologism of the vocabulary, but from that moment Lorenzo’s trademark has not yet been seen in the season. The winger is trying to find the way to the goal from open play, which is missing from the third to last matchday of last season against Udinese. The only goal from open play this year is that beautiful first-intention defeat thrown under the Europa League crossing in the first leg against Legia on 21 October.
ASSISTANT – Missing this year is another Lorenzo Insigne’s trademark: the assist on the right outside. Do you remember those beautiful pitches from the left wing that allowed Callejon to easily reach the net with perfect timing? Last year this solution allowed Hirving Lozano and Matteo Politano to score most of the 27 goals and 10 assists overall. That rainbow, which the defenses find it hard to read despite the whole world knows it, this year was only seen against Sampdoria on the fifth day when on a restart it allowed Osimhen to score the first goal of the game. Insigne, now a few months after leaving for Canada, must rediscover himself and the particularities that made him great to be reborn from the ashes of these months like a phoenix, and what better place than Venice? The last move before leaving Napoli, to return to the best version of him. Dreaming of the most beautiful ending.