Morning fitness work for five, light afternoon session for whole squad

Thursday’s training programme was divided into two parts, with a select few put through an extra session in the morning before the full squad took to the pitch in the afternoon.

Bartosz Bereszynski, Dawid Kownacki, Karol Linetty, Junior Tavares and Valerio Verre were at the sports centre in Temu early on to focus on fitness with athletic trainer Antonio Bovenzi, while the rest of the Blucerchiati were given the morning off following Wednesday’s friendly against Padova.

After lunch Marco Giampaolo had the players who played most of Wednesday’s game do a light session involving rondos and football-tennis.

Meanwhile, the remainder of the squad played a series of training games on a small pitch.

On Friday the lads will have their last double session of the training camp in Val Camonica.