Napoli, Lu-Ra shines also in the national team: super break for Lukaku and Raspadori

Naples, March 24, 2025 - The National e Aurelio De Laurentiis, a relationship that is often tense and bordering on conflictual. In the head of the owner, who has never been so sparing with words as in this season, weighs heavily on those interruptions in the championship that are often almost detrimental to the progress of his team. Napoli and, above all, for the most feared threat in every latitude, that linked to injuries. Often, however, the opposite also happens, with players who come out of expeditions with their own teams reinvigorated in body and soul, with the rest of the team that in turn can recharge its batteries during the break. Speaking of the first case, the news coming from Belgium and which see as protagonist a Romelu Lukaku ready to go back to Castel Volturno polished to say the least.  

Lukaku's rebirth with Belgium

  Gone are the days when the class of '93 refused the call of his own team National to remain at the court of his mentor Antonio Conte, in order to better take care of one's physical condition. This time Big Rome says yes to the call-up and he doesn't do it just to put more fuel in his legs. The bomber of the Napoli company 3 goal in a few days leading to 88 goals in 122 attendance the total count with his own team, of which he is the clear leader in this sense. And what a goal: yesterday, in particular, theUkraine she was knocked out by a fine scissor kick and a great right foot, in the face of those who in Lukaku sees only a striker functional to the team game but not very prolific and even less agile in his movements. Belgium thus, thanks to its emblem, it overcomes the obstacle Ukraine, a team that is therefore relegated to League B di Nations League and it does so thanks to its bomber, regenerated by the care Rudi Garcia, one who instead in the shadow of Vesuvius (and not only through his own fault) has not left any excellent memories. Precisely Lukaku, galvanized by the turnover of these days which leads him to -1 from quota 400 goal in his career, since the withdrawal of his own National thought of Napoli, relaunching its candidacy for the championship despite the bloody braking of Venice which, combined with success dell 'Inter in the house ofAtalanta, dug a first ditch of 3 points from the top of the rankings. The obstacle looms on the horizon Milan, for someone with a past in black and blue perhaps the best target to go hunting for the seal that would be worth a round sum of 400 scores. Just at the time of theInter, the iconic was in force Lu-La, the lightning-fast attack duo that saw the protagonists Big Rome e lautaro martinez. Different times, but with the still persistent suspicion that the Belgian really performs at his best when he has a partner close by up front as, moving on to the present day, could still be the case. James Raspadori, another who in turn came out well from the ill-fated expedition of theItaly.

Raspadori's signals from Italy

  Of course, the adventure in Nations League of National di Luciano Spalletti ended up in the quarter-finals against Germany, which instead secures a place in the Final Four, now having to deal with the Portugal. And yet, even in a collective shipwreck that was quite irrevocable, the 2000-born player saved himself by becoming the symbol of the recovery that took place in the second half. Dortmund from the Azzurri, capable of impacting the 3-0 signed by the home team during the first half. As is now a well-known custom also in the Campania capital, Breakers during the match it often turns out to be a very sharp weapon available to any coach, like the same Spalletti he had already ascertained in his previous winning adventure right at the Napoli. Jacks he comes in, the shock sounds, he serves a lightning assist to Moise Kean, he almost hits the net with a great left-footed volley and then finds it from the penalty spot, with a surgical execution: nothing that could be of any use to theItaly to avoid elimination, but at least to emerge undefeated from the never banal theatre of Westfalenstadion. In a final race of boarding in which, proverbially, the schemes were skipped, Breakers he has however confirmed himself as the perfect support for the striker on duty, not skimping on his own personal pursuit of goals. A message, another one arrived from this happy return of the National, directed to Tale, who during this break has been racking his brains for a long time over the formation with which to deploy the Napoli upon the resumption of hostilities. Everything seemed, and still seems, set for the grand return of the 4-3-3 and, with him, of David Neres after the long injury which, combined with the precarious physical conditions of Noah okafor, has effectively put out the fires on the left flank. The fulcrum of the Azzurri's offensive game, albeit with mixed results, has thus moved to the centre, where the pair Lukaku - Raspadori it worked wonders, at least until the braking of the Penzo, a race in which the former Sassuolo had hit a sensational inside post. Details, which in football move the needle of the scale depending on whether the wind is favorable or not in the period. And the last flash of the Napoli in the championship before the break it was anything but memorable also due to that 3-5-2 already ended up in the dock for having taken away those certainties acquired with the previous module. Yet, in the folds of the most familiar scheme to Tale she hid herself Lu-Ra, the offensive duo that dragged the Azzurri through the most complicated period of the injury emergency. Lukaku e Breakers They did good to each other and, together, they did it to the Napoli that today, observing the exploits of their attackers with their respective National, cannot help but wonder what to do in view of the Milan and the final rush of the championship. So, what to do? Go back to 4-3-3 and to the driving force of the full-backs ready to play as pure wingers or insist on 3-5-2 to give further credit and trust to the Lu-Ra, who also shone during the break?

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