Gazzetta dello Sport anticipates the possible choices of coach Roberto Mancini ahead of Italy–France, scheduled for Thursday at San Siro. The national team that could take the field has a strong Milanese imprint, with several players linked to the two major teams of the Lombard capital.

According to the newspaper, Cissé was supposed to arrive as early as September, but his commitment with the Under 21 team in the race for European qualification kept him back. Now he has joined the senior squad. The temptation for Mancini would be to field him on Thursday on the left side of the attack, alongside Pio Esposito, already a regular starter at twenty-one years old. A tandem that Gazzetta defines