Naples, what a pain: Osimhen gets hurt on the national team

Naples, 13 October 2023 – The storm in a glass on the bench of Napoli has diverted general attention from another tile that hits the team that holds the title and is currently struggling in the championship: Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa stops for several weeks, further complicating life Rudi Garcia.

Diagnosis and recovery times

 Due to a low-grade injury to the hamstring of his left thigh, the Cameroonian will have to remain in the pits approximately 2 3-weeks: curiously precisely the time frame which could decide the fate, in one sense or another, of the French coach. Notoriously, the attention of the fans and of some more superficial insiders in these cases could focus on the striker on duty, considered the true fundamental element of the team in question. The reality, however, is very different: the true beating heart of any football team is the midfield. Even more so when he is coaching Garcia, who not surprisingly since his installation on the blue bench, the one that currently wobbles like few others Serie A, reiterated the importance of the midline in his game. If the role of Stanislav Lobotka has gradually been reduced in size, with all due respect to the tactical creed of Luciano Spalletti, that of the midfielders has grown dramatically: he knows something about it Piotr Zielinski, the former departure who remained and who so far has been one of the key men of Garcia. The same could be said of Anguissa, who instead will now be forced to stop due to the worst bugaboo of every coach: the one that risks recurring also for Victor Osimhen.

Osimhen stops

Not even the time to contrast the importance of a midfielder in the economy of the tactical chessboard with that of a striker who the latter, speaking of home affairs Napoli, stops in the 59th minute Saudi Arabia-Nigeria. At this moment all thoughts go to Aurelio De Laurentiis, notoriously a great 'lover' of National and the disputes that, according to him, lead to the various clubs. Of course, it is still early to make any assumptions about the type of physical trouble that occurred osimhen and on the extent of any recovery times: what is certain is that even good luck seems to have abandoned Garcia. To be fair, the injuries of osimhen, especially at this stage of the season, are not exactly new. The same Spalletti, just over a year ago, he had to deal with a very long stoppage by the Nigerian. Curiously, precisely in that period the Napoli launched a clear acceleration, digging the first ditch on the rivals, who were anticipating (in vain) the decline of the future championship teamItaly. While awaiting the instrumental tests of the case, who knows whether the same thing, with due proportions, could happen to Garcia, which could find in some so-called backup the unexpected protagonist of its own rebirth. Without forgetting that, afterwards the dry no of Antonio Conte, the vote of confidence for his bench was given above all by the senators.

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