Sassuolo beat Inter at the Giuseppe Meazza and turned the Scudetto upside down. The victory of the Emilia-Romagna club in Milan had three protagonists: Berardi, Raspadori and Scamacca. The trio of attackers generated the two winning goals and they exhibited at the Scala del Calcio for the second time this season (they have already beaten Milan). The three are completing an outstanding campaign and several big ones have been interested in getting hold of them.
berardi He has more than 300 official matches with the club and is becoming a goal-generating machine again. He already has 10 goals and 10 assists and it is irremediably close to the incredible numbers of its two previous seasons (17G, 8A and 14G, 10A). Giacomo Raspadori, meanwhile, is in full swing. The 22-year-old striker accumulates 8 goals and 4 assists; with Dionisi, the current coach, he is becoming a total attacker. Finally, Gianluca Scamacca He is a pure goalscorer. The 23-year-old striker is in the process of completing his best season as a professional and has 10 goals.
Perhaps the explosion of so much talent should not be surprising if it is the Sassuolo. If for something he has stood out in his nine seasons in Serie A it is for being a great factory of young talents. Some talents that have been revalued over the years and have been sold. Some of the names that have passed through the club are Demiral (Youth), Acerbi (Lazio), Vrsaljko (Athletic), Samson (ex-Villarreal), Pellegrini (Rome), sensitive (Inter), politan (Napoli) and Zaza (ex-Valencia, Turin). A club with a great infrastructure in youth academy and a excellent scouting work worldwideas evidenced by his signings in recent years.
On this occasion, two of the three stars of the current Sassuolo have been raised in the quarry. They are Domenico Berardi and Giacomo Raspadori.. The 27-year-old winger has spent practically his entire sports career at the club: was sold to Juventus in 2013but immediately loaned to the club and bought two years later. It is, without a doubt, the great flag of the team and one of the captains. raspori He entered Sassuolo’s quarry very young and since the age of 14 he has been receiving offers from the biggest clubs in Italy. Roberto De Zerbi made him debut in 2019, and since then, he has been completing a meteoric progression.
European attack numbers and interest from the big boys
In Series A, only the trident of Lazio (Immobile, Milinkovic-Savic and Pedro) exceed their numbers and just the one from Hellas Verona (Barak, Simeone and Caprari) equalizes them. Of the rest, no one even comes close. Berardi, Raspadori and Scamacca numbers are devastating. Between the three they have generated and participated directly (goal or assist) in 34 of the 41 goals that Sassuolo has scored in the league so far.
Now and after having demonstrated merits to spare, the three are starters, but at the start of the season only Berardi was a fixture in Alessio Dionisi’s eleven, the young coach of the team. Scamacca returned from loan at Genoa (previously he went through Ascoli, PEC Zwolle, Cremonese and PSV) and it cost him 8 games scoring his first goals and earning his first start. In the meantime, Raspadori had ups and downs until December. The pearl of the neroverdi began playing many minutes, but until matchday 16 he had a goal. Since then he has done 7. At its best.
Sassuolo’s three stars celebrating a goal against Inter
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Their great performances and their projection into the future have meant that, inevitably, their names have been associated with many big teams. Berardi has been playing for the top teams in Italy for more than four yearsbut no offer has arrived that satisfies Sassuolo’s requests. rasporia declared Inter fan, has raised a lot of interest in the last few months precisely from Inter. In case of Scamacca It is much more peculiar due to the number of clubs it has passed through, but it has also been related in the last dates with Inter, Juventus (until the arrival of Vlahovic), Milan and several foreign clubs. Berardi himself acknowledged after winning at the Meazza that the three of them are here to play in a big team.
Thus, Sassuolo is returning to be the protagonist in Italy based on young talents, but amply prepared, who burst unexpectedly into the elite. These three are the latest in a long list that will continue to grow over time and the demonstration that it has a business model that fits perfectly with football needs.