Mateo Retegui leads the way in this week’s best performing Italy XI from this weekend’s round of top-flight fixtures after a hat-trick in Atalanta’s 5-1 thrashing of Genoa on Saturday afternoon.
The Azzurri striker earned an average rating of 8.5 from the Italian press, and is now the outright leading scorer in Serie A with seven goals and an additional assist from his first seven matches of the 2024-25 campaign.
The other standout performers from this week’s round of Serie A fixtures include Monza forward Daniel Maldini, who has been rewarded with a call-up to the Luciano Spalletti’s Azurri squad for the first time. He came away with an average rating of 7/10.
That same rating was also handed out to Mattia Zaccagni of Lazio, Gaetano Oristanio of Venezia, Alessandro Buongiorno of Inter and Simone Scuffet of Cagliari.
Here is the best performing Italy XI from this weekend’s top-flight fixtures, lined up in a 4-2-3-1 formation.
Best performing Italy XI from this weekend
(4-2-3-1): Scuffet 7; Bellanova 6.5, Ghilardi 6.5, Bastoni 7, Calafiori 7; Cristante 6.5, Locatelli 6.5; Maldini 6.5, Oristanio 7, Zaccagni 7; Retegui 8.5.
Best performing Italy players in Serie A Round 7: Retegui on top