Leao, the technicians come and go but the benches remain: anything can happen in the summer

The most obvious sign of the (bad) times is that his benchings are almost no longer news. That is, they are taken into account by everyone, as the months have passed they have transformed from a sort of lèse-majesté to unavoidable events. In practice we have arrived at the cornerstone of Fonseca's reasoning, who often repeated: "Leao on the bench must be the norm", obviously meaning not the downsizing of his number 10, but his democratization within the squad. Everyone useful and no one indispensable, in short. Rafa Leao found himself out once again in the middle of the match in Turin too. At the end of the first half, during which Conceiçao had intended more than one scream at him, the coach told him to take a shower: match over, because evidently his patience had also run out. In his place, Fofana transformed the 4-2-3-1 into a 4-3-1-2 which, however, had no effect and within a few minutes became 4-2-4: full steam ahead, but without Rafa.