The international dimension of Inzaghi’s team can also help the national team, but the coach must change choices. Why unripe out and sticks in a different role?
At the beginning of June, Italy will fly to Oslo to start his race at the 2026 World Cup against the Norway. With or without Haaland, busy recovering from a bad injury, it will be a psychologically uphill challenge because our opponents took advantage of the first two days – Azzurri engaged in the unfortunate quarter of the Nations League – to bring to the top with a full score. Luciano Spalletti’s national team will present himself in Norway detached by 6 points and with the prospect of playing a decisive game for world qualification immediately That, after the Flops of Ventura (2018) and Mancini (2022) nobody can allow themselves to fail.
A week earlier in Munich the Champions League will have been assigned and Simone Inzaghi’s Inter could be the protagonist on that night. Or not, but little changes in reasoning because the European dimension taken by the Nerazzurri is under everyone’s eyes and the success at the Allianz Arena against Bayern Munich has only made by multiplier in the eyes of international critics.
The numbers have been saying for some time that Inter is a great of Europe. The final of Istanbul lost against Manchester City was the trigger, but the general picture says that The Nerazzurri in the last three seasons have won two thirds of the games played in the Champions League (20 out of 32) and since September 2023 they lost just 2 out of 19: A Madrid against Simeone’s Athletic, then ending up outside penalties, and one in the first phase of this year in the home of Bayer Leverkusen at the last minute and with a second lines team. Statistics are not everything, but they cannot be ignored.
Since Inter is a very ‘Italian’ team, the thought rapid to the national team of Luciano Spalletti. Playing with the three -way defense (like Inzaghi) and the midfield resting on strong exteriors (ditto). Therefore, Inzaghi’s European journey cannot fail to be ignored by the technical commissioner: half national is made, trains daily in Appiano Gentile and must simply be replicated by touching as little as possible.
Recent history says it is not so. Francesco Acerbifor example, it is out of the calls from November 2023 and not only because he has gone through a long period of physical problems: Spalletti focuses on Calafiori, good morning and of Lorenzo (in March he replied “I believe in my players, thanks for the advice”) also at the cost of distorting characteristics and positions. Alessandro Bastoni He is one of the best in the world in his role, but with Italy he often ended up playing central, where he loses a lot of his strength. Why? Acerbi cannot be the future of the national team but it is certainly the present to recreate the left axis (Acerbi-Bastoni-Dimarco) who is making Inter great. Barella in midfield and Frattesi first alternative.
Half national is made and the rest is not bad. Cambiaso is perfect as opposite compared to Dimarco, Tonali has an international dimension and goes well with Barella, Ricci is being built as a director and the Kean-Retegui couple finally has interesting numbers and tactical and physical characteristics not dissimilar from the one on which Inter rests. Italy wrote pages of history relying on the blocks of the moment: in 1982 that of Juventus, for example, made Bearzot’s fortunes. Refusing to lean on the arrival of Inter, adapting the others and not the supporting axis of the team, appears to be a contradiction that we cannot afford. Not thinking about what the Azzurri awaits Oslo in early June.
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