Atalanta, Daniel Maldini raring to have his first start on Sunday

Bergamo, March 27, 2025 – From the lights and shadows in blue to the black and blue, in search of space. And relaunch. Daniel Maldini is itching to get his first real chance with Atalanta, in a week in which everything seems to push him towards a starting shirt on Sunday in the away match in Florence The gunner Mateo Retegui is always working separately with personalized therapies to recover from the first degree injury to the long adductor (the same injury Maldini had in February), and at this point his return against Fiorentina, even just to be able to play a segment, it seems almost impossible. Ademola Lookman only returned to training today after the match played with his Nigeria on Wednesday evening against Zimbabwe. And Charles De Ketelaere, who has had a sharp physical decline since Christmas, disappearing from the radar, he still seems destined for the bench: The 24-year-old Flemish player did not shine against Belgium either, in the first leg of the play-off defeat against Ukraine, and then remained on the bench for the return match. It is therefore probable that Florence you can see a offensive tandem formed by Lookman and Maldini with a attacking midfielder including Samardzic or Brescianini behind them. Atalanta, which is not abandoning the race for the Scudetto, is now hoping for an impact from Maldini, purchased in January for 14 million from Monza, a significant sum for a talent that has not yet fully blossomed and with potential that is still unexpressed. Gasperini has used him very little so far - just 46 minutes in the championship at the end against Venezia and Inter and half an hour in the Coppa Italia against Bologna, in three difficult matches in which the Goddess failed to score - deploying him as a first striker, no longer having Scamacca and Zaniolo as alternatives in the centre-forward role, but he is tactically setting him up with a view to the future as a second striker, an alternative to De Ketelaere, in the present, and in the future as a possible replacement for Lookman.