Marco Carnesecchi continued to make the case for himself as a goalkeeper of top-club calibre, bringing authority to his work at a point of the season when individual certainty can carry real weight. His standing is no longer built simply on promise: his performances have given the sense of a player ready for the greater demands that come with the highest level.
Luka Modric, meanwhile, again supplied the class that has long defined his career. There was delicacy in his play and the ability to give the match a calmer rhythm, but even a player of his quality has limits: one particular task remained beyond him.
For Pervis Estupinan, it was a more uncomfortable afternoon. His difficulties did not disappear even when faced with Raoul Bellanova, whose running and insistence added to the pressure on the left side. It was one of those Sunday tests that can expose a team’s balance as much as an individual’s form.
Between Carnesecchi’s assurance, Modric’s enduring refinement and Estupinan’s hard shift against Bellanova, the match offered another small but revealing chapter in a Serie A campaign where reputations are continually tested by the demands of the weekend.
