The term, now almost overused, leads to crazy Inter of left-handed memory. More simply, that seen against Turin was a two-sided team: slow, unrecognizable and incomprehensible up to 0-2 as much as fluid, convinced and dangerous after Sanchez’s goal that had reopened the game. The famous fame that Antonio Conte has been calling out loud since the beginning of his Nerazzurri adventure has been lost along the way and also for this reason the coach seems figuratively since yesterday having abandoned the path of the carrot, finding that of the stick.
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“We are not a great team“It’s a strong concept, especially if expressed by both the coach and the team’s technical leader, Lukaku. But the reasoning is flawless: if Inter needs to see the abyss to aim for the top, there is something wrong with the preparation of commitments. It is no coincidence that it is the team that has obtained the most points starting from a disadvantage: a good 7. A Toro (among other things cut down by absences) put on the mirror was enough to harness the slow and predictable 3-5-2 Inter, in the which the absences and fatigue for the commitments of the national teams they played a decisive part but to be shared with almost every other great team in the league.
That’s why, for the first time this season, after the race we saw that count from foaming to the mouth so distant from the conciliatory attitudes of the past weeks but tremendously close to how he had behaved for most of the past year. Mentality, desire to fight from the first minute and above all intensity: this is what was missing yesterday, and not for the first time this season. We have no doubt that the coach will make himself heard in training and in private as he did in front of the cameras.
Even because the material, the famous fabric, is there. As soon as Inter woke up, they created three goals in a few minutes and other occasions, finding the desire to press higher, fight on the second balls, shorten the spaces and even afford the “luxury” of the Lukaku-Lautaro duo supported by Sanchez with Barella-Vidal in midfield. An abundance which now does not seem to be part of further and further away Eriksen, surpassed in the hierarchy by Nainggolan. Now we need to (re) quickly find the values of determination and determination built with patience in 2019/20: they cannot be gone in a few months.
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