Rafa has been missing since the beginning of the championship but Allegri found a way to push the team to the top even without him. Now it is necessary to find the best key so that the number 10 is an additional added value. The key word? Tactical discipline
We are not yet there, but we will get there soon: “I returned after a month and the match against Napoli was difficult. I have to continue training, from the point of view of the breath: quiet”. To speak is Rafael Leao, who in these hours that lead us to the very partita with Juve, he chatted a little with the fans on his Twitch channel. It was more than honest: very simply, it is in a breath of breath. For one with its type of game, it is like removing the right outside to Modric: one of the essential elements is missing. On the other hand, it is physiological: Rafa has returned skilled and enrolled with Napoli after forty days of forced stop, now as now in the legs it has the misery of 39 minutes. It takes time to return to condition even if, when the 10 with the Rossoneri shirt moves towards the door of others, the restlessness of the opponents is clear: the frame Which sees the Portuguese launched towards Meret with seven Napoli players who chase him/contain it is sensational.
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Just as in various respects it is sensational to observe Milan at the top of the ranking without having ever had his deputy prosecutor available. Also because in a team deeply remedied in the summer and full of question marks, Leao looked a lot like the backbone of the rebuilding. Or rather: this era and basically should remain so, even if others have now been joined. However, along the weeks in which it was not clear – at least outside – the path that the Rossoneri market would have made, Rafa was a lighthouse in uncertainty. The top player from which to start again. Unquestionably central, because any new project cannot be separated from supporting some safe use. Then came the injury, after only eighteen minutes of the Italian Cup. There and then there was a certain despair, increased exponentially after the internal knockout with the Cremonese. After that, they gradually stopped whistling their ears. The belly of the fans, and above all of Allegri, began to fill himself in the presence of the inventions of Pulisic, the insertions of Modric, Fofana and Loftus, of the Nkunku technique.
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Said in another way: a multiplicity of offensive solutions such as to compensate for the absence of the unpredictability of Leao. Now that the return, however, approaches, several are in asking the ways in which the Portuguese will be entered. And there are also those who go to hypothesize that Rafa’s use can be a problem in the context of a team that at the moment travels by heart. “Problem” is definitely not the most suitable word, but the debate is lawful. For several reasons. The first is that Leao is still studying from a central tip, that is, it is still adapting in the more or less pure outdoor transition to player who must attack the door more. The second concerns the key word: tactical discipline, on which they beat all the technicians who trained Rafa. With alternate results. Allegri certainly touched the right keys in the management of his number 10, transmitting closeness, trust and a certain complicity. The companions did the same. Starting with Modric, a name that is obviously not accidental. The coach also made him understand that he does not intend to ask him for the amount of defensive sacrifice that demanded those who were before on the bench. The tactical discipline, however, this yes. Working with a collective, without sacrificing personal qualities, but in the context of a context where the team approach is to ensure that a different player arrives at the action. In these cases it always depends on the point on which things are observed: in the case of Rafa, in the context of a Milan built in this way, they will have to be the team qualities to enrich the performance of the individual, and not the single called to go to the rescue of the team. Otherwise that “problem” risks acting really.
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