Italy’s striker worries eased with Kean and Retegui: the stats | OneFootball

The Italian national football team is heading towards the 2026 World Cup qualification playoffs. The match against Israel, held last night in Udine, was decided by a masterful performance from Mateo Retegui, increasingly becoming the offensive leader of the team coached by Gennaro Gattuso.

Italy, striker problem solved? With Kean and Mateo Retegui, the national team can rest easy: the data

After the disastrous European Championship in Germany for our national team, a storm of criticism hit the offensive department of the team then coached by Luciano Spalletti. On television broadcasts and in all sports newspapers, people wondered where the top strikers were, figures that have never been lacking in the history of the four-time World Cup-winning national team. The issue related to offensive production was not convincing even after the traveling European Championship won in 2021, when Ciro Immobile was leading the Italian attack.

Today, the situation is quite different. The future of the Italian attack seems to be in good hands, with Mateo Retegui and Moise Kean ready to lead Gennaro Gattuso's national team in the 2026 World Cup qualifiers. The two-striker formation, experimented by Spalletti first and then by Gattuso, seems to have given greater confidence to the Italian forwards, who are rewarding the coaches' choices in terms of scoring. This is confirmed by the numbers of the former Genoa and Atalanta striker, who, in six qualifying group matches, has scored five goals and provided four assists, placing himself just ahead of strikers like Cristiano Ronaldo and Rasmus Hojlund in the top scorers' ranking.

Vincenzo Schiavo

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