The next 4/5 days that separate us from the Coppa Italia final between Milan and Bologna will be accompanied by a fixed doubt and a recurring question:
Who is better to start from the first minute between Luka Jovic and Santiago Gimenez?
The two Rossoneri strikers, in fact, have shown different and in a certain sense contrasting signals in recent outings, which inevitably pushes Sérgio Conceicao and his staff to consider a series of factors.
Granted that in today's football, with 5 substitutions, it almost seems difficult to make a clear distinction between starters and bench players...
Starting with Luka Jovic, without a doubt he is a less classic 'number 9', who likes to come toward the midfielders, lay the ball off for the wingers and for anyone who is around him at that moment. At the same time, he is a player who has already experienced high-pressure and important environments, such as Real Madrid, even though he never truly made an impact, as pointed out by those at PianetaMilan.it.
Furthermore, and this is not an aspect to underestimate, he became the Coppa Italia hero after his brace against Inter, which gave him — also from a mental and psychological point of view — a different energy compared to what he might have had previously.
On the other hand, there is a Santiago Gimenez who has struggled greatly in recent times, even from a physical standpoint. Sérgio Conceicao has often left him on the bench, and on several occasions he has struggled to impose himself, showing the need to adapt to Serie A.
He did, however, score a brace against Bologna, the team Milan will face in the Coppa Italia final, and he is a pure number 9 compared to Luka Jovic.
In this debate, whose solution we will only discover a few hours before the match, watch out for the surprise of Tammy Abraham, who could bring a certain degree of unpredictability.
