Francesco Pio Esposito will face Liverpool in the Champions League on Tuesday night and then lead the Azzurri forward line in the World Cup playoffs next March

Inter Milan striker Francesco Pio Esposito has quickly become the potential saviour of Italian football at the tender age of 20. And the 6’3” prodigy will carry the hopes of the nation on his young shoulders in the World Cup playoff against Northern Ireland - and then maybe Wales - in March. It says a lot about the raw promise of the forward who will face Liverpool on Tuesday night - and the poverty of talent in the Italian game.

Pio Esposito was on loan at La Spezia in Serie B last season before he was given his Inter Milan debut by his former academy coach Christian Chivu at the Club World Cup. READ MORE : Mo Salah dropped

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