Nerazzurri in prolonged physical and emotional breakage. Against Roma the third defeat in a week and the concrete risk of closing the season without any trophy
The collapse modes may surprise, because Simone Inzaghi’s Inter was no longer used to losing three games in a row without being able to score. Point. Everything else is part of what could happen in a season so far excellent, but at the same time anomalous, of the Nerazzurri who have been condemned to chase the triple while knowing that they were traveling on the thread risking the zero tituli.
A border that Inter exceeded in the most difficult two weeks, those that the calendar had been known for months would have been decisive and to which it would have been appropriate to arrive with a consistent advantage over Naples. The return with the Bayern Munich of the Champions League, the terrible trip to Bologna and then the Italian Cup derby with the effort to close the effort with the challenge with Roma in a beaten by 17 races by Claudio Ranieri: what surprises in the braking of the Nerazzurri?
Beyond the modalities, nothing. It is the reason why in a serious analysis and not conditioned by the story of Antonio Conte, at least since December Napoli is strongly suspended of being master of their own destiny in the championship. Too much difference in commitments, efforts, emotions: Simone Inzaghi’s team is paying the account together and the inclined plan on which it slips resembles a prolonged break that can negatively mark the season finale.
Inter are physically tired and in the head, it has some of its most important men who never rest and who are making up for the injuries of others and the deficiencies of the reserves: it is not true that the great clubs have roses in which everyone is interchangeable, but it is indisputable that some of Simone Inzaghi’s backgrounds are failing, forcing the others to a super work that in the end weighs.
The challenge of San Siro against Roma recalled the second half in the derby, similar to the last 20 minutes of Bologna and the finals with the feast against Udinese, Parma and Cagliari. If there is a moment to identify like the one in which Inter has left a large part of the Scudetto is precisely the trip to the home of Parma, the double advantage dilapidated in the second half and with it a treasure of two points that today would have served to amortize also from a psychological point of view the terrible week.
Many of the big names seemed distrust, dried up by the Champions League evening against Bayern Munich: almost an out of laps from which the Nerazzurri did not recover. Imagine that something can change within a few hours, flying to Barcelona or then hosting the Catalans (in the middle there is Verona) is difficult, but it is also part of the luggage of the great teams. The property and the management have tightened a necessary health cordon around the technician because the criticisms, in the probable case of lack of trophies at the end of the year, will be corrosive and inzaghi will hit in its point.
The truth, on the other hand, is that the season was excellent and the path cannot be canceled by a finale of fatigue and defeats. Not even in the championship, where this season represented an anomaly having a very strong team (Napoli) with a huge advantage in not making European cups. A scenario that could also be repeated in the future, given that the calendars of the adults will certainly not be lightened and those who find themselves outside for a year will have an important push to aim for the most desired objective.
The only partial consolation is the return of some central pawns such as Dumfries and, when possible, Thuram. Inzaghi’s hope is that it is not too late, the certainty is that the air void of this end of April surprises only that he had believed in the fairy tale that all the calendars were equal.
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