Napoli coach, Luciano Spalletti has confirmed Victor Osimhen’s return ahead of Saturday’s Serie A fixture against Hellas Verona and the Champions League clash against AC Milan scheduled for Tuesday.
According to Tribal Football, Spalletti admits the plan is for Osimhen to return against Verona with the aim to being fully ready for the Partenopei’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final second-leg against AC Milan in Naples.
“The conditions are good, we made a meeting with the doctors this morning and it seemed to us the natural consequence of everything that came out of calling him up for tomorrow’s match.
“It’s clear that the goal is to get him at his best for Tuesday’s match, but tomorrow he’ll be with us on the bench,” Spalletti stated.
Meanwhile, on going to Milan being 1-0 down, Spalletti also said: “It was the debut in the quarterfinals, everyone spoke of team nervousness, I would speak of maturity during the match, of the attitude they had, just the opposite, there is important growth because a team cannot be lucid and at the same time dangerous in 10 against a team used to that level of important matches for the history they have.
“We have had correct attitudes, we now search to put in place those things that have been taken away from us. I also see improvements in personality.”
Victor Osimhen trained with the rest of his Napoli teammates on Friday for the first time since he suffered a minor niggle in his adductor muscle while on international duty with Nigeria in March, which stopped him from playing Napoli’s previous three games, and the results were unconvincing.
