Scotland worldwide Billy Gilmour might be handed extra alternatives for Napoli approaching the 2024-25 run-in, as retailers in Italy recommend that he’s now in a position to present Antonio Conte with a dependable rotation possibility in midfield after an extended settling-in interval.
Gilmour set for elevated sport time at Napoli?
alongside his worldwide colleague Scott McTominay through the summer season switch window, and whereas McTominay has proved an ‘undroppable’ member of Conte’s facet, Gilmour has needed to be extra affected person for first-team alternatives.
That’s as a result of Conte caught with a settled and established midfield of McTominay alongside 2022-23 Serie A winners Stanislav Lobotka and Andre-Frank Zambo Anguissa for the early phases of the 2024-25 marketing campaign.
That meant that Gilmour needed to wait till October for his first Serie A begin, which got here because of a month-long harm to Lobotka. Although he deputised effectively for the Slovakian, Gilmour’s subsequent Serie A begin after that run got here on March 1, resulting from an harm to Anguissa this time round.
Having impressed once more over his final three Serie A matches – seeing extra of the ball than another participant within the current 0-0 draw with Venezia over the weekend – predicts that he’ll see extra matchday motion heading into the essential final 9 video games of the 2024-25 season, significantly with persisting doubts over Anguissa’s health.
Corriere dello Sport means that Conte now has a real rotation possibility in midfield, and completely different options relying on his opponent, which was not the case in the beginning of the 2024-25 marketing campaign.