“He is better and will probably be with us in Naples,” Pioli said at the conference. Zlatan this season has scored 8 goals in 11 games
There he is again. On the bench, with the suit, one step behind Pioli, but back there with his Milan. After seeing him from the stands for a month, Ibrahimovic – barring surprises – will again be available to the coach for tomorrow’s match against Napoli. The last match dates back to January 23, half an hour on the pitch with Juve before giving way to Giroud. “The fault of the field,” he said. Right Achilles tendon inflammation kept him in the pits for forty-two days. He has missed four matches in Serie A and two in the Italian Cup. Pioli said that “Zlatan is better” and that “he will probably be available”. Maybe he won’t play for a minute, but in the meantime, here he is again.
Contribution
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A few numbers: Ibra scored 8 goals and produced 2 assists in 19 games. Between the knee problems at the beginning of the season and those with the Achilles tendon, he missed 17 matches (two in the Champions League, three in the Cup and 11 in Serie A). He was decisive against Udinese, Rome and Bologna. Against Lazio, in September, he closed the game by signing the 2-0 after a few minutes from his entry. With the shoe unfastened. Now challenge Napoli: in the first leg he played 90 ‘, now the Scudetto is at stake. At the old San Paolo, today Diego Armando Maradona, he scored three of his five goals for the Azzurri. The first eleven seasons ago, the 2010-11 championship year, the last in 2020. Double and victory (1-3). In September he will turn 41, but he is not yet willing to say enough. In one of the latest interviews with L’Equipe, he said that most of his peers, at this age, relax on the sofa with a cigar in their mouth, thinking back to what they have done in their career. “I’m not ready”, the words of him.
Naples novel
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Ibra in Naples, a missed meeting. The Swede has talked about it several times, including in the last book, “Adrenalina”. In 2019 it was all done: “The day I should have signed De Laurentiis he sent Ancelotti away. Carlo convinced me, we agreed. When Mino introduced me to it, I immediately watched a documentary on Maradona”. Bewitched. The phone call with Mino goes like this: “I go to Naples, I bring 80 thousand people to the stadium every Sunday and I win the Scudetto as Diego did”. In the end he returned to Milan. A love story suddenly resumed, in January 2020, after seeing the team take 5 slaps in Bergamo from Atalanta. “I wanted a new challenge”. Since Ibra returned to San Siro, the Rossoneri have transformed. Thanks to him, to his character, to his goals, but also to Pioli, one with whom the Swede has always had a great relationship. “Ibra will never be a problem,” Stefano once said. Maybe he’ll give him another hand in Naples.
March 5, 2022 (change March 5, 2022 | 19:15)
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