Frattesi has a lot of reserve: now being a sub is difficult for him

In the great feast he gave a forkful, even one and a half, to a diner usually at the edge of the table: Davide Frattesi, however, is so hungry that he doesn’t worry about the time allowed to him at Inzaghi’s banquet. The highest paid player of the last Italian summer transfer market – if we add the loan, redemption and Mulattieri’s price tag we reach 33 million – he was making his third appearance as a starter in the league: the first at the end of the summer away to Empoli and the last at the Franchi returning from the Arab Super Cup in January. Yet, seeing the engine roar against Lecce, he would seem like a very starter: nothing strange, this imaginative and friendly 24-year-old is a midfielder on a mission.

nothing but reinforcement

—

He accepted a season behind those in charge in midfield, but he doesn’t lower the intensity when it’s his turn. With Atletico at San Siro he snatched the ball for the goal by entering the game on the run. Yesterday in two minutes at the start of the second half he tilted the game in the Nerazzurri’s favor: they went from a near 1-1 to a 0-3, which then became 0-4, in an amen thanks to Frattesi. First the raider’s scratch then the tear with a pass to Lautaro: it is the second time he has combined a goal and assist in a match, the first with the Sassuolo shirt dates back to 19 December 2021 against Fiorentina. The Italian has a familiarity with scoring that sometimes doesn’t even belong to centre-forwards: adding up all the competitions he has already achieved 5 goals in this first season for the Nerazzurri. In Inzaghi’s family, more prolific than him, there is ThuLa plus the penalty taker Calha: neither the reserve striker Arnautovic nor the midfielders Mkhitaryan and Barella stopped at two reach his level. If he has a total average of a goal every 224′ (178 if the field is narrowed down to Serie A), the untouchable Armenian scores approximately every 1300′ and the former Cagliari player every 1200. Translated: the word “reserve” for Frattesi begins to stay tight.