Fourth consecutive championship win and fourth match at San Siro without conceding goals: the numbers are all in Inzaghi’s favor
If the numbers don’t lie, Inzaghi can look to the future with the optimism of better times. A average of 3.2 goals in the last five games of the season (16 goals scored), fourth win in a row in the league, and one defence iron confirmed by the fourth match at San Siro without picking up balls in his own goal. L’Inter there and is in the running for all the seasonal goals, overturning rumors, drafts and apocalyptic visions of the post-match against Roma.
Yes, because a month ago, on the eve of the first match with Barcelona, Simone Inzaghi he was considered a poised coach. Despite the two trophies won last season and the fact of having fought until the end for the Scudetto. In a championship in which those who, after a pharaonic transfer campaign, remain steadfast on the bench even if they came out of the Champions League in October and have ten points behind the first in the standings. The mysteries of Italian football are always indecipherable.
Inter are backor she had never left. She just needed an adjustment period which, paradoxically, was not needed a year ago. The transition from Conte to Inzaghi was less painless than the start of Simone’s second season on the bench. A more fluid and less codified football, combined with the memory of the group of plays sent by heart, had created a profitable mix of a good spectacular level. Now Inzaghi seems closer to his Lazio version, with an Inter that does not mind waiting and hitting vertically, taking advantage of an unstoppable Dimarco and the insertions of midfielders capable of throwing themselves into the spaces with extraordinary timing: Barella above all but also Mkhitaryan . Then there are set pieces, another weapon to be exploited given the physicality of certain elements (De Vrij’s goal is almost a programmatic manifesto in this sense).
Few, then, have the possibility to use the bench like Inzaghi. When you can afford to send Acerbi, Bellanova, Asslani, Lukaku and Correa, the author of the coast to coast who closed the games against Sampdoria, on the field, and to be able to do without an element that seemed fundamental as Brozovic, replaced with increasing personality by Calhanoglu, it is easy to imagine why, for the championship fight, Inter is still in the small group of favorites.
