Turin, it’s a brand new Vanja: this is how he wants to take back his Serbia

Toro is the revelation team of these first three days of the championship, but within the granata there are several surprises. Coco was able to immediately take charge of the defense and has become an idol between the performances offered and the winning goal in Venice, Ilic seems like a completely different player compared to Juric’s time, Adams still lacks in concreteness but has already shown that he could be the perfect partner for Zapata. None of the most brilliant granata of these first 270 minutes of the championship, however, reaches the level of Vanja Milinkovic-Savic, the man who has rightly and deservedly taken the stage of the new Toro of Vanoli. He got his hands on the three points against Atalanta by saving a penalty from Pasalic with time almost up, he outdid himself in Laguna on Nicolussi Caviglia by taking away a ball headed for the top corner: he finally started saving, this is the most used comment on social media after more than one empty passage in the Juric era despite the 18 clean sheets during the 2023-2024 season

The Serbian was also confirmed by Paolo Vanoli as the starting and undisputed goalkeeper: the market, in fact, continued in this direction, with the revolution in the package from Gemello-Popa to Paleari-Donnarumma which did not bring a profile that could compete with the 1997 class. And Vanja, also with the new trainer Marco Zuccher, has increased the personality he already had, but added the technique and confidence that he still had to work on. “I always thought he had great potential, now he can and must grow further” continues to repeat the Torino coach about the goalkeeper. And Milinkovic-Savic, now, also has the extra push of motivation: the goal is to win back the national team that he lost during the summer. Rajkovic put his foot down and overtook him in the hierarchies already at the European Championships, then rumours of a fight in the pub between the Granata and a fan who was criticizing him came out and now he has remained off coach Stojkovic’s list. One more reason for Vanja to try to drag the Bull as high as possible.