With a bottom on La Gazzetta dello Sport, Stefano Agresti spoke about the success of Inter featuring Marcus Thuram, author of an incredible hat-trick and the superlative performance of Retegui, who also scored three times with Atalanta: “The new kings of goals are Marcus Thuram and Mateo Retegui. And – let’s face it – we are all a little surprised by the wonders they are giving to Inter and Atalanta (the Italian-Argentine also gives great hopes to Spalletti’s national team. We appreciated Thuram’s ability to integrate with Lautaro last season). , to help him score, to work for the team. And also to put it in, of course, but this didn’t seem to be his main quality, although he still managed thirteen goals in the championship. In short: the ideal shoulder for any center forward but not a goal-scoring animal, that’s the idea we had of him.
Retegui also convinced in his first Italian adventure, so much so that Atalanta rushed to Genoa to sign him as soon as Scamacca broke down: a great fighter, a solid striker, but at the end of the last championship he stopped at seven goals in twenty-nine appearances , nothing extraordinary in the construction phase. Instead… Instead Thuram and Retegui are the new goalscoring kings. Yesterday they scored three each (their first Italian hat-trick), they dragged Inter and Atalanta to victory, they flew away at the top of the scorers’ table with seven.
Spalletti will be happy about this, as he is continuously and almost desperately looking for a centre-forward: perhaps he has found one. And for this he must also thank Gasperini and Atalanta, who believed in Retegui, proposed him in a team of great ambition and made him grow a lot in just a few months, to the point that in seven matchdays he scored as much as in all of last year. championship”.