From tears against Arsenal to the bench against Atalanta. For Lorenzo Insigne the week of Easter must not have left good sensations, like a fracture that now seems certain between him and the environment around him. Still in everyone’s eyes and ears the substitution of last Thursday: Napoli is losing to Arsenal and is about to greet the Europa League, Ancelotti recalls the Neapolitan who, with a sardonic smile on his face, does not shake his hand whispering something to him when replacing with Younes.
Then the bench greeted but never exploited: Insigne leans on the side, crouches, seems to curl up on itself. The hands to the face and the tears held back by force so as not to burst in front of the many that a few minutes before they had buried it with inclement whistles. A few minutes before the final whistle Insigne leaves the field and goes to the locker room. No problem with Lorenzo Ancelotti would say in the post game perhaps hiding something too much, as he did tonight as well: He played three races in a week spending so much, I preferred to preserve it and it will be ready for the next ones. It is a heritage for us, it must return to its levels because we all expect it “.
But it is not enough to explain what is seen in the field. Four days later, in fact, Insigne goes back to the bench against Atalanta. Ancelotti chooses the Mertens-Milik couple. The Belgian scores, the Pole goes very close to us but Maiello denies him the joy of scoring. It would have been the victory one, probably, instead the Napoli takes the umpteenth season embarked and Gasperini’s Atalanta has more desire and hunger so much to overturn it, first with Duvan then with Pasalic. Napoli leaves the San Paolo among the whistles of a bitter Pasquetta. Bitter also for Insigne, who saw the field only from the bench: Ancelotti lets Luperto enter to give the unfortunate Chiriches the spare, then Younes and Verdi in the moment of difficulty. The Neapolitan, at the final whistle, puts on the hood and returns to the locker room, then he will stand out at the exit from the locker room for a gesture of annoyance evident before everyone’s eyes. Never so far from Napoli and with so many market voices in the head that now make the difference.
From: Il Mattino.
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