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Napoli pray Osimhen returns for Milan clash

Napoli are praying for Nigerian international Victor Osimhen to return to the team for Wednesday’s big game with AC Milan.

Osimhen currently suffers a thigh injury but his presence in the team for the club’s last two matches is considered quite important.

Napoli have become increasingly dependent on the dynamism of Osimhen and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

The club’s manager Luciano Spalletti said after Lecco win: “It does become difficult without him, because he has this way of running into space and a physical presence, he can draw everyone to him and then create space.”

Spalletti will be hoping the Nigerian international returns on Wednesday also because he will probably be without the 24-year-old’s main replacement Giovanni Simeone, who suffered a thigh injury of his own after coming on as a substitute on Friday.

Napoli need just four more wins from nine matches to secure their first league title since 1990 after a 2-1 win at Lecce. The club has never before been in the last eight of the Champions League.

They have emerged as dark horses, given how they have progressed through the competition, and their being placed on the other side of the draw from European football’s contemporary powerhouses.

 

Source: AFP

 

 

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