👀 Strikers with a point to prove: 🐔 Belotti, Vlahovic and more | OneFootball

It's a Serie A championship full of forwards seeking redemption: from Belotti to Vlahovic, including those returning from injury and those needing to re-establish themselves in our league.

Let's see which forwards could start smiling again in this Serie A championship.

🐔 Belotti: Is the Rooster singing again?

One forward who is certainly rejoicing at this time is Andrea Belotti: after several disappointing experiences, not least his stint at Como with an attached loan to Benfica, the Rooster celebrated a magical night by putting his signature on Cagliari's comeback against Lecce.

It was since June 2024 that Belotti had not scored a brace: after the 100 goals scored in the league in a Granata jersey, the Rooster had never sung more than three times (counting only the league) with the jerseys of Roma, Fiorentina, Como, and Benfica.

Perhaps the Sardinians can truly be the place where the Bergamo striker can get back in the game, without the pressures of a high-ranking club and with minutes and responsibilities to shoulder.

🇷🇸 Can Vlahović reclaim Juventus?

When it comes to Juventus' problems in recent years, Dušan Vlahović never fails to make himself heard in the discussions.

The Serbian has never fully convinced in Bianconeri, yet he has been ready in several delicate moments, despite always being questioned and despite highlighting a polemic vein towards an environment that continued to criticize him with his celebrations.

Steadily in double figures in every season in Bianconeri, he had to endure more cohabitations with names that were supposed to bench him permanently: last year it was Kolo Muani, this year Jonathan David.

Yet the man Juventus of Tudor clung to at the start of this championship was precisely the Serbian: two goals scored and a match decided coming off the bench, while paradoxically he did not score when he was fielded as a starter in a goal-filled match like the one against Inter.

A new dimension as a "supersub" of sure reliability?

👀 Giménez and Dovbyk, should I stay or should I go?

They were the forwards protagonists of a rumored market exchange between Milan and Roma: Bebote Santiago Giménez and Artem Dovbyk both found themselves on the fringes of their respective teams.

The Mexican was on his way out of Milan, with the Sword of Damocles hanging over his head due to many behavioral problems. Now he finds himself with a rather shaky starting position, threatened by Nkunku and Pulisic.

Allegri talks about the need to find serenity, but it is certain that Gimenez has not yet put his name on the scoresheet, but has hit three posts and had two goals disallowed for offside: will it be enough just to unlock himself?

The story is different for Artem Dovbyk: the Ukrainian has been constantly criticized, despite in his first Italian season, in the technical chaos of Roma last year, he managed to score 17 times between the league and cups.

If his name was already hinted at for an exit that did not materialize, also due to the competition from Evan Ferguson for the starting jersey, Dovbyk seems to be at risk of being failed by Gasperini, who harshly criticized his attitude after keeping him on the bench in the defeat against Torino.

🤕 Scamacca and Zapata, standing up again

Then there are two forwards who want to reclaim central positions in their respective teams (which, moreover, will clash in this round of the championship) after missing almost all of last season due to their respective injuries.

On one side there is Gianluca Scamacca: last season he played just 5' against Torino between a cruciate ligament injury and a knee tendon injury, watching from the stands the goals scored with the jersey of his Atalanta by Mateo Retegui, top scorer of that championship.

This year Scamacca has found the goal in Serie A that he had been missing since May 2024 and is determined to reclaim the Goddess, despite physical problems continuing to plague him.

Similar story for Duván Zapata, stopped by a cruciate ligament injury last October: with the captain's armband of Torino, the Colombian was trying to carry the Granata team on his shoulders, with 3 goals scored in 7 matches.

This year he has not yet been seen on the field, except for two minutes against Modena in the Coppa Italia, and there is certainly a Simeone aiming to keep him on the bench. But who knows if he can return to dispensing goals as he has always known how to do.

😣 The disappointments of Morata

It was one of the most sensational transfers of the summer, the one that brought Álvaro Morata to the lake with the Como jersey on.

The Spaniard, after his second Juventus experience and after the two excellent seasons spent at Atlético Madrid, had lived a fluctuating season divided between the jerseys of Milan and Galatasaray.

The call from Fabregas represents for him an important opportunity for relaunch, under the orders of a fellow countryman coach who has great esteem for him and with whom he shared the jerseys of Chelsea and Spain.

So far, however, Morata has not been able to scratch, missing several good chances in the match against Genoa, and there is an Anastasios Douvikas who is ready to give him great competition for the starting jersey.

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