The team of Inzaghi and Marotta is more dangerous than it seems.
Italian football on the edge
The emperor occasionally celebrates and organizes orgies, but the Visigoths are on the border. This time they are wearing trendy jackets and boring imaginary jobs in finance. The Chinese deceived Inter, the owner of the club has debts at home and is ready to sell the club for only 1-1.2 billion euros. Agnelli turned out to be the traditional heir to a great dynasty. Andrea risks losing his grandparents’ fortune. Berlusconi is too old and too sick to regain control of the world of football.
Milan, Inter and Juventus are in big financial trouble. Serie A as a whole is in a monetary crisis, because various factors have reinforced each other. The result is large debts for the clubs. And they have no idea how to get out of it. At the same time, Italians fall in love with big football again. This is facilitated by the beautiful journey of the Scudetto from one shirt to another. Juventus was the first to push Inter. Four years and four champions. The apotheosis was the fireworks in Naples.
But the desperation of the situation spurs Inter on. These are amazing cup fighters with victories in domestic tournaments and reaching the new final, where they will play against Fiorentina. Inzaghi didn’t demand a “hundred euro dinner” like Conte did. But Simone’s ability to win after defeat works. Without Eriksen and Perisic, they found a new approach, and without Lukaku ready to play at full speed, they found a partner for Lautaro in the person of Dzeko. The veterans saved themselves against Milan.
The Nerazzurri will not get a second chance
Guardiola said that Manchester City will win the Champions League sooner or later. He has the approach of a young Mourinho. The Portuguese thus spoke of Chelsea’s first victory. As a result, Di Matteo lifted the European Cup with the “aristocrats” instead of Jose. It is unlikely that someone will do it instead of Josep, the sheikhs trust him. But in the heads of the “citizens” players there is this thought: “If not this year, next”.
Harmful approach, you can’t put life off until tomorrow. Inter have a different style: “If not in Istanbul, never.” Inzaghi has no illusions, Lotito at Lazio taught Simeone to live within his means. Ancelotti and Guardiola could not do it for so long. It’s clear they have a lot more experience, as well as the muscle in their teams. But in just one game, Barella, Brozovich and Bastogne can say to the favorite: “Be-be-be, the cup is ours.”
It is worth objectively assessing Inter’s chances: Benzema and Holland can demolish Onan’s defense, given that the Cameroonian goalkeeper is defended by an interesting and strong-willed team, but with disadvantages. Both positional and tactical. Inter fans in Italy like to reproach Inzaghi for not being able to perfectly motivate every game, not just the decisive ones. Simone is a bit like Semak, but this isn’t always a bad thing.
Inter was created to damage the favourites
Onana is the leader of the season in the Champions League in breadcrumbs, he has seven. Inter leads Serie A in goals on the counterattack, which is also useful for the outsider in the Champions League final. The 5-3-2 system of wide horizontal play with clear transitions to vertical attacks, in which even Lukaku can spin the combination, not only Barella and Calhanoglu, has hurt many opponents. Difficult for Inter to repeat their best football, but even the future Spanish champion did not beat them in the group stage. And the defeats from Bayern made it possible to draw conclusions about the work in defense.
A clean shirt without a title sponsor reminds us how much Inter need to win Champions League. The sponsor of the club this season is a blockchain bureau. As the cryptocurrency market is in crisis, the Nerazzurri did not receive the three expected payments and abandoned the idea of advertising the company for free. Players are aware of how much money the club needs. And given that Marotta runs the business, one of the leading football coaches of the new century, it’s no wonder Inzaghi didn’t lose all of the leaders last summer. The result: the first victory over Milan in Champions League in history.
The Milanese are at war with their past
It applies to both clubs. Father and little son, leaving San Siro after losing the derby in the semi-final of the Champions League, synchronously showed the middle finger to the Inter fans. Not something that should be taught to children. But what will a child without parents definitely learn. Milan are not relegated yet and Inter are not yet in the final. But much closer. It is clear that the second finalist will be the favourite, only in football sometimes it happens as in a viral video.
The boy came up with an original method of predicting the playoffs Champions League, smashing eggs with club emblems against each other. Inter won the omelette cup final. The Milanese want the cup like Dimarco, an Inter graduate who saw Shevchenko with his eyes twenty years ago and the hooligans sent Ancelotti to the final. And since these are Italians, they are no stranger to underestimation in football before a triumph. Inter were not favorites in 2010.
Yes, Real Madrid and Manchester City are on another planet. But Inzaghi wants to repeat the experience of his brother Filippo, only as a coach. At Inter there were guys who fate seemed to lead to the final in Istanbul. It remains only to achieve a result that is rare for this type of match – the victory of an outsider. And first you have to respect Milan. The above are positive facts for Inter, but Champions League gave returns that the whole world was talking about. Two balls can be played.
