Nuno Tavares

And then we have to see.

I think, you know, they have Mussolini on one side and Tavares on the other side.

With our ability to take, you know, the width, Those are not great defenders.

They're good fullbacks.

They can attack.

But, you know, Nuno Tavares defending Chukweze, he has the speed, but I like that matchup.

I'll take it.

Mussolini defending Salemakers or Moreira, less so if it's one of the other two.

This one...

We see Nuno off to a flying start right off the bat, four minutes in.

Nuno with a nice chance, beating everybody down the sideline and playing a dangerous ball across the goal.

Unfortunately, nobody there to tap it in.

And then Nuno finding himself on the sideline Other end of a nice corner from Zaccani.

Unfortunately, a simple save.

Mandas forced in the 11th minute.

The momentum.

Profs guard with the centre-halves.

Nuno Tavares at left-back, who I'm surprised that they kept, to be honest.

He got the assist for Fratesi's winner against Genoa.

Then at midfield three was Fratesi, Ravella and Kenneth Taylor.

If you want to try Marrera, try him on the left.

Let's see that.

Let's do that experiment because we should have signed Nuno Tavares instead, but we didn't.

So let's see if he can play on the left.

So, yes, Davide Fratezzi was once again the difference maker.

His 25th minute finish from Nuno Tavares' pullback gave him his second goal in back-to-back starts.

stepping up amid Lazio's injury crisis.

The same pairing nearly doubled the lead soon after, Tavares crashing a header of the post after a frattese cross, but Lazio couldn't add the cushion, and they had to survive a Rovella injury forcing Belayan into an early introduction.

That was the absolute nailed on thing we knew from like three months ago was that Romagnoli was off and he's still here.

Nuno Tavares has been linked with a sale all summer and then, you know, we've not mentioned him yet, but he was man of the match yesterday.

He showed exactly what he can do, why he's this unique threat who offers us something new totally different.

I think it's really important we keep him now too, because if you take him out of this team and you're left with Pedraza and Pellegrini, that is downgrading quite a lot.

I think at the moment we have a lot of missing parts, even though we are top of the table.

Midfielder, for me, could be a really important part of this.

We mentioned Nuno Tavares.

Shall we talk about Floriani? Because I thought yesterday he had a decent game.

I thought Noslin could play there.

The fact that at the beginning of the second half, Isakson came in, and again, we talked about Nuno Tavares.

I thought Isakson was not 100% fit as well.

But he had a better impact than Cancellieri.

Um, he's, he's quite good f- in ter- in-- from a physical point of view.

Um, he's, he's not, like, physically dominant in s- in the way that you get, like, these Nuno Tavares-type wing backs that just completely overpower you with their u- upper body strength.

But he's got a bit of guile and, you know, quite, quite a low-ish center of gravity, so that can be useful when it comes to one of his other standout qualities, which is, um, his first touch and his ball control.

Um, very, very good at, at trapping the ball under pressure, good at taking the ball and moving into stride.