With Arsenal’s clash against AC Milan in the Europa League just around the corner, Gazzetta dello Sport take a look at one of the match ups expected to take place in that game: Patrick Cutrone and Danny Welbeck.
While they’ll unlikely have to be in the same area of the pitch very often, the two will be at the centre of attention, for very different reasons.
Cutrone has had a great season by his standards, bursting on the scene early on and quickly becoming one of the more promising attacking talents in Italy.
The Arsenal striker? He was once all those things, but he isn’t anymore, and Gazzetta make sure to drill that into their reader’s head.
They even go as far as saying that, at 20, Danny Welbeck was more ‘considered’ than Cutrone is, and, to be fair, he was, having scored in the Premier League and the FA Cup after making his debut at Manchester United at the age of 17.
Then injuries struck, and everything stopped for the Gunners’ forward, whose career ‘can only be a disappointment’, with the striker often described as ‘Bambi on Ice’ when he gets inside the box.
With Cutrone close to getting double digit goals in the league, something Welbeck never achieved in 10 years of playing in the Premier League, he’s the ‘favourite’ going into Thursday’s game.
Why? “At 20, he has hope and a certainty. Hope: to not get injured as much as Danny Welbeck. The certainty: he will never be poisoned by comments from the Telegraph, according to which Welbeck, in certain matches, ‘looks like a striker of an amateur team in front of goal.’”
For Gazzetta, that comment is ‘heavy, even worse than Bambi’.
