Christian Vieria great former striker of Inter, Milan, Juve, Atalanta, Fiorentina, Lazio and Atletico Madrid, gave a long interview to SportWeekpraising Mateo Retegui: “He’s very good in the box. He knows how to keep his distance, he manages to be in the right place at the right time. This is a huge quality. He’s always there to knock on goal, on every rebound, on every rebound, he’s there. Venezia scored a very beautiful and difficult goal, beating the outgoing goalkeeper with the ‘scavino’. It means that he doesn’t know how to score just a few meters from the goal, as an opportunist, but he is also gifted from a technical point of view, he has a good foot. And then it is someone who doesn’t just score goals: he is a worker, he tries to lend a hand to the team, he has shown that he is ready on a physical and mental level: for the first time in his career he plays three times a week, championship-Champions-. championship, and he is coping very well with the impact of the new reality. In short, everything is fine, but if you ask me for an overall rating for his current size as a footballer, I won’t go beyond 7”.
Vieri he continues: “Before celebrating him, however, I want to wait for him to confirm himself. It would be too easy to give him a very high rating for what he is doing at the moment, but I want to see him all this year, in which I say he will score at least 20 goals, but especially the next one. How many attackers score in double figures in one tournament, and then scale back the next? Will the coming season be the decisive one for Retegui to demonstrate that he will be able to reconfirm the goal haul that I think he will achieve this year, he will be a 60-70 million transfer market man, and teams like Manchester United or PSG, who at the moment need a centre-forward, could focus on him.”
A final warning though: “Today football, like everything else, goes fast. Too much. All it takes is for someone to score a few goals and they talk about him as a great striker, because there is a hunger for top-class strikers, given that there are there are very few. But if Rome wasn’t made in one day, the same goes for a striker who must be evaluated over the long term, “weighing” the goals he scores: how many and against which teams, because not all goals are the same. “.