Inter demolishes Como, Chivu takes revenge on Fabregas and also convinces the skeptics who in the summer had considered his arrival in Milan as a makeshift.
The Inter manifesto by Cristian Chivu it was the third goal in the evening of the almost perfect match against Como Cesc Fabregas: aggression against the opponent, ball recovery, verticality and technique. Everything that a coach can ask of his team but which usually takes months, if not years, to obtain. ANDIt is true that Chivu’s Inter was born on the ashes of Inzaghi’s, who worked on some mechanisms for entire seasons, but it is equally undeniable that the transition from the past to the future was complicated and fast.
That the manifesto was revealed in front of the man who should have taken Inzaghi’s place on the Inter bench, and who said no and remained in Como, is a circumstance that adds symbolic value to the scene. Chivu disdainfully refuses to admit that he felt a particular pleasure in (sporting) punching Fabregas, but the story of the Nerazzurri summer is very much contained in that sliding doors with Ausilio who flies to London to seduce Cesc, receives the rejection and then Chivu arrives. Considered by many to be a fallback and the symbol of downsizing.
Fabregas will become a great coach and is destined for a huge European club as soon as his apprenticeship at Como is over. Chivu is already an excellent coach who must complete the path of impetuous growth, if it is true that he started the championship with only 13 benches behind him in Serie A in Parma and a long apprenticeship in the Nerazzurri youth sector. It wasn’t easy to get into the head of a group tested by the negative end of last season, even changing some of their game codes: the Romanian seems to have succeeded.
Who can smile is Marotta who has been defending the choice of the new coach since June, challenging first the critics and then the skeptics. It’s true that Inter have already lost 5 times between the championship and the Champions League, a number that no one likes and which is usually accompanied by the impossibility of reaching the goal of the Scudetto, but it is equally indisputable that they have abolished draws and that they express a ferocious and beautiful football on the pitch that has erased the traces of Inzaghi’s.
There are still defensive miss passes and mechanisms to be fixed, because attacking the opponent 50-60 meters from your own goal carries riskshowever the path is right and the message sent by San Siro by giving a poker to Como who up until then had conceded only 7 goals in 13 days is clear: whoever wants to win the scudetto will have to deal with Inter and forget about being able to enjoy the advantage of an opponent with problems of motivation and technical and tactical identity.
