Immobile and Belotti, now it makes no sense to discuss them. But the center forward is a role in crisis: Guardiola- Corriere.it’s fault

We have a center forward problem, but we can’t fix it in a week or even in six months. Immobile has been playing for the national team for 7 years, Belotti for 5, they are not boys, we know everything about them. I would also say that discussing it now is not even elegant given that there are no more than two games left and that for them too we have come a long way. They cannot be their discussion and solution.

Real estate for performance the best Italian striker for at least 30 years. He played 413 league and cup matches with a very high average goal of 0.55 per game. To give a reference, Vieri has an average goal in clubs of 0.49, Inzaghi of 0.42. Where everything falls in the national team, the average goal drops to 0.30, an average for a great striker. Property is 31 years old, can no longer change. Something in the national team limits him. It also happened in Pulici. Bearzot said he had no world psychology, he was lost in the national team. That’s all? I believe that for Immobile the problem with Mancini is also tactical. A team with two wings is not his because Immobile is not interested in crosses. Not a true striker, a first striker, a lone hunter, loves to invent. D the ball to get it back, while in Italy the center forward acts as a bank for the insertions of the others. Italy then attacks, forcing the defenses of the others to always be lined up, the area full of opponents and Immobile does not like playing under size, the easy touch inside the small area.