The impression is that Inter won more than Napoli lost. yet many observers have remained in the eyes of the second half of the leaders, small and fearful, to the point of hypothesizing that it was the bad performance of the players from the shoulders that favored the Nerazzurri victory. In our opinion, this is not the case. Inter won because they were stronger, smarter, smarter. Plus everything, like never before in this league. And among the cards that Inzaghi was able to play on the table of the very big game there was also Lukaku, for many he hastily ended up behind the blackboard, due to his still approximate physical condition. Big Rom, on the other hand, took part in all of Inter’s dangerous actions in the first half and if Di Marco had done the simplest thing after a few minutes, instead of kicking in an unfortunate way, there would have been traces of it even in the scores.
Lukaku can change Inter, probably because Inzaghi has finally figured out how to use him. He hadn’t succeeded in August, when he wanted to bring the center forward into last year’s Inter, he hadn’t had the opportunity again in the long months of injury before the World Cup. But in the meantime he studied, and it wasn’t difficult. It was enough to look at the Inter of the Scudetto, the one that Conte castled in front of his own penalty area, only to then shoot the Belgian slingshot into the spaces that the rest of the team had expertly known how to build for him. And so, damage was suffered for everyone. He also happened to San Siro and against the weaker teams, all invited to play and discover themselves. And so did Inzaghi with Spalletti, he gave him the ball and told him: score me a goal, if you can, and then I’ll start again on the counterattack.
The fact of ball possession is irrefutable, not only the general one (67% vs 33%, i.e. Napoli had the ball for two thirds of the time played), but above all that for areas of the pitch. Inter, their 33% possession, was only 29% in the opponent’s half and 71% in their own. Napoli, on the other hand, spent 42% of “their” time in Inter’s half. Translated into minutes: Inzaghi had possession of the ball for exactly 6 minutes in the Napoli half, Spalletti for 15 in that of Inter. More important than that, Inzaghi could not be. On the most important evening.
Sure, Inter didn’t beat Napoli thanks to Lukaku, no one dares to think so. But Lukaku is destined to grow with the weeks and matches. And of his strength, no one can doubt. Provided that he is exploited in the correct way and Big Rom is not forced to always play with his back to goal, as happened before the injury. When he regains his condition, the one that was a sporadic blank against Napoli, can become the most important in the run-up to whoever is in front. which remains a very difficult undertaking as a direct consequence of the large gap accumulated in the first phase of the season.
@GianniVisnadi
