It was last October 30th: without Calhanoglu injured, Barella as director and Davide as midfielder. Result? Double and 0-3. But Frattesi’s world today seems upside down
It took Davide Frattesi just over two months to turn his world upside down. To understand which hemisphere is best suited to the Nerazzurri midfielder, however, we need to delve into his thoughts. A far from simple undertaking, considering how in recent weeks the reflections in his head have been multiplying exponentially: Inter or not Inter, this is the dilemma. “Will they let me go to Roma?” instead it will be the biggest doubt. The fact is that almost everything has changed from Empoli to Empoli.
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The Castellani challenge dates back to 30 October: after the injury suffered by Calhanoglu during Roma-Inter a few weeks earlier, Inzaghi showed up in Tuscany without his main playmaker. In Bern in the Champions League he tries Barella in the middle, a few days later against Juve at San Siro he tests Zielinski, and then returns to the original idea with D’Aversa’s team: Barella returns to the “cabin”, with Frattesi as starting midfielder. Goglichidze’s expulsion just after the half hour paved the way for the Nerazzurri who broke the deadlock at the start of the second half with… Frattesi. A first sign of the former Sassuolo’s unhappiness, looking back at the images of that evening, can already be seen there: no angry celebrations (to which all the Nerazzurri fans were accustomed and not in the previous season), no smile, not even a grimace . Only silence. As if to say: “Here’s what I can do, maybe I could be used at least a little more…”. The expression doesn’t change even after the brace that makes it 0-2: Frattesi collects a great invitation from Lautaro, enters and passes Vasquez. The reaction? Same as the previous one: he doesn’t even crack a smile. The match will end 3-0 for Inter – Lautaro is the 3rd Nerazzurri center – but Frattesi’s mimicry will remain the same.
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After the brace in Empoli, it was conceivable that from then on Frattesi would be used more. And instead… just 7′ against Venezia a few days later, on the bench for 90′ against Napoli, barely half an hour in Verona and from then on in the championship only fragments. Short or very short: the average in the last 6 Serie A matches is 13 minutes on the pitch per game. Hence the desire for a change of scenery, to return home, to truly become a protagonist. And in this sense Roma could satisfy him, while they could hardly do so with Inter considering the club’s request (45 million). Meanwhile, everything is postponed until after January 29th, the day of Inter-Monaco. Then maybe it will be checkmate. But first there is Empoli, a match which Frattesi arrives in reverse compared to the first leg match.
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