The two Milanese at the top of the table, the only big names to win in a weekend that saw Naples, Rome and Juventus fall. The difficulties of Tudor and Conte and the merits of Allegri and Chivu
Only Milan and Inter are laughing at the weekend without goals (there are 9 when only Cremonese and Udinese are missing) and at the fall of all the big teams in Serie A. Allegri and Chivu win, Conte, Gasperini and Tudor lose in that order with the effect of drawing a top of the table in which the Rossoneri command alone with a host of compact opponents behind them. The heaviest success was that of Inter who won over the Giallorossi Olimpico, definitively eliminating the gap that had been created with consecutive defeats against Udinese and Juventus. Not only that. Chivu seems to have found the recipe to make a team that has been used to doing different things and weakened in the soul by the tragic end of last season play well and with defensive solidity.
A clear response from the field, dedicated to those who continued to question the new Inter course which is based on the great quality and experience of the senators plus a battery of boys picked up in a summer transfer market that was perhaps too criticized. Bonny’s story is symbolic: he has Thuram-like numbers being the Frenchman’s reserve and together with Pio Esposito he has already done more than all the attacking reserves of last year.
Allegri, however, takes the prize for best on Sunday. The victory over Fiorentina makes the Viola foam with anger at the decisive penalty conceded via VAR by Marinelli. Personal opinion: held lightly but voluntarily and with the effect of preventing Gimenez from going to finish without fail. In Florence they think differently, in Milanello the league leaders return with the awareness of having accomplished a feat that largely belongs to their coach. Without Rabiot, Pulisic, Nkunku, Estupinian, Loftus-Cheek and Jashari, with Terracciano-Pittarella-De Winter-Gimenez-Balentien-Udogu-Sala on the bench (in order), Milan won. No complaints, just practical things.
The comparison with the communicative slaloms of Conte, who continues to discover how playing cups in addition to the championship prevents him from training the team during the week (a year ago he claimed the opposite) and Tudor is jarring. Napoli remains very strong but should convince themselves that they are facing the struggles and commitments of all the great teams in Europe, not a hellish group dedicated only to the Neapolitans.
There Juventus he is in a crisis of results and play. Up until now the ranking was the only thing that worked, after Como something is starting to be missing even on a numerical level. There is a lifetime left until the end of the championship, but it is a sign not to be underestimated that at the moment the Bianconeri are out of everything, confined to seventh place. For Tudor the time has come to make choices, possibly clear and definitive ones: Madrid and the Olimpico (Lazio) are already decisive.
