For clubs in excellent form, the international break arrives with a sense of dread given the threat of their impetus being halted, while it’s the opposite feeling for sides either playing poorly or failing to get results.
To some extent, this also applies to players and Victor Osimhen is no different.
Despite Napoli’s growing momentum before the hiatus, the striker endured a frustratingly stop-start run in the side since the turn of the year and was left out of Gennaro Gattuso’s starting line-ups for important victories over AC Milan and AS Roma.
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Even though he’d ended an extended run without scoring against Bologna prior to the aforementioned fixtures, the Milan icon felt his team’s best chance of success at the time was to play without the frontman they’d invested so heavily on in the summer.