Mauro Icardi, who scored a brace in tonight’s win against Fiorentina spoke with SKY during post-game interviews and had the following to say: “For this season I had to prepare by myself without my teammates. But I prepared well and I wanted to be fully prepared and I think I proved that by scoring twice after 15 minutes. If this is the year? I hope this season will go well and that we will do better than we did last year. Now we have to find continuity and awareness of what jersey we wear. The great turn up of fans isn’t something new for me, today there were 50 000 of them supporting us, this means a lot for us players. Today’s win was also for them. Mister has a clear idea of what we should do, now it is up to us to make a difference on the pitch. He is good in transforming his will and conviction to us, and this is something that we haven’t had in the past seasons. Spalletti’s vertical play helps me, it makes the team longer and opens up space for my teammates. I’m more comfortable with that, he always tells me to go deep. The national team? I have always been calm, something that I have been expecting for 4 years now, but I have always been a professional doing what was expected of me. The call-up is the result of everything I have done up until now.

Source: SKY