Mateo Retegui Shines for Italy: Italian Media Surrender to Argentine Forward

The Italian media, surrendered to Mateo Retegui

After some absences due to various injuries and technical decisions, Argentine Mateo Retegui returned to the Nazionale and shone at Chase Stadium to give Italy a 2-1 victory against Venezuela at Lionel Messi’s home. The former Boca Juniors and Tigre forward scored a double, which generated a flood of praise from the press and technical director Luciano Spalletti. In addition, a Calcium giant has his sights on him.

“Retegui decides with a double,” headlined Corriere dello Sport. With these two goals, Chapita has accumulated four goals in five appearances with the Azzurra. He had previously scored against England and Malta in qualifying for the Euro Cup. The current continental champions managed to seal their ticket and will be part of Group B along with Spain, Croatia and Albania. La Gazzetta dello Sport, for its part, said: “Retegui leads the Azzurri with a double.”

SportMediaset was one of the media that highlighted the Argentine attacker the most. “Retegui and nothing more,” said journalist Alessandro Franchetti in his column. “If the problem was, and is, finding a center forward to take us to Euro 2024, the search for Luciano Spalletti can be closed. Mateo Retegui is without a doubt the man we needed. He doesn’t steal the show with spectacular plays, but he scores and does what he has to do. That is to say, he contributes to the offensive game and allows the team to have a man to rely on to go up,” he stated bluntly.

This site was in charge of dropping a bomb after the game, reporting that Retegui is one of the main options that Juventus is considering for the next transfer market in case they lose their star, the Serbian Dušan Vlahović. He also received the best score on his report card, with a 7.5.

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For Tuttosports he was also the great figure of the match against Vinotinto, with an 8. “If everyone had played like him, with anger, determination and the desire to fight for every ball, the National Team would not have fought like they did against Venezuela . Fortunately, this top-level striker, like the two goals he scored, fuels hope that Italy has finally found the center forward it had been chasing for years. Mateo passed the litmus test with great success: 5 appearances, not all of them complete, and 4 goals. It is understandable why Genoa made a big deal by signing him last summer. And Italy can do it too,” they commented.

“Habemus nine. He certainly has a sense of goal. And although he scores thanks to a wrong start from his opponents, he pulls off a far from easy turn to take the lead. And he concedes an encore with the second good ball that comes to him in the area,” highlighted Sky Sport, a site that rated him an 8 and also placed him as the most decisive footballer in the game against Venezuela.

Once the match was over, Spalletti did not hide his happiness at the level shown by the Argentine: “Retegui is perfect because he did an extraordinary job as a finisher and above all to lift the team. He came out on set pieces in defense to take away some of our problems because he is physical, and then he heads the ball very hard.” And then he added, “We must congratulate him for all the dirty work he has done, because we were penalized from a physical point of view against a team that had more height and structure than us.”

“He played a splendid game, he is confident in the penalty area. He made the team stand up, he held up well and did a perfect job,” concluded the Azzurra strategist. Mateo Retegui is also decisive for Genoa in Italy, where he has eight goals and three assists in 24 appearances.

2024-03-22 15:42:00
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