In Marassi, Monday evening, Rino Gattuso will be able to field one of his offensive ideas of 4-3-3, to field the attacking outsiders with "inverted feet". And if Lorenzo Insigne right who plays left has been a point of reference for years, Matteo Politano left-handed who starts from the right is the novelty. A novelty expected two years, given that in January 2018, at the time of Maurizio Sarri, the Sassuolo's exterior then did not pass to Naples by a whisker on the last market day and would have been the right reinforcement to point then to the Scudetto, the one lost despite the 91 points.

TACTICAL NEWS - But it is now useless to look back. Today Politano becomes an excellent alternative, even if Gattuso also takes José Maria Callejon into great consideration, despite the Spaniard's contract expiring. It is still early to say whether Politano will start in the postponement at the Samp home on Monday. The Calabrian technician is more likely to use it as a running weapon for now. Also because from February 3 begins a "tour de force" for Naples with 7 games in 27 days (5 of the championship plus the outings of the knockout matches in the Cups against Inter and Barcelona. Only Juve in Italy will have the same number of games).

RECOVERY - For this Gattuso will need to recover his best men. Because the new technician actually had only 3 'available Koulibaly, who is slowly recovering from the thigh strain and perhaps he will not be at risk in Genoa given the many subsequent commitments. Maksimovic is already in place and against Samp he will be the owner in the middle of Manolas' side, thus allowing Di Lorenzo to return to his natural role as right-footed player. The Belgian forward Dries Mertens is also close to returning, now on the pitch regularly at Castel Volturno. Finally, Allan is expected to return to Brazil to embrace his third son Matteo: the muscle problem in the meantime should have been absorbed.