Three wins, five draws and two losses: after the 1-1 in Bergamo, the dish ofInter of this early season continues to cry. The real trouble is that the old vices, inability to properly realize the scoring, clean sheets only twice and a few tactical variations, which Conte has not yet managed to remedy, add up to new problems, among which the performance of Samir Handanovic.
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Also yesterday there was the feeling of a team that played on equal terms against a formidable opponent, although not in its best form, took the lead, kept control of the situation but then ran into two difficulties which she failed to remedy: first the Vidal missed 2-0 (arrived not very clear in front of Sportiello also because of the “defensive” position that forced him to grind kilometers after kilometers) and then the changes of Gasperini. Inter had lost the measures and started to suffer the passage of Atalanta to 4-3-3 and the speed of Lammers-Muriel already a few minutes before Miranchuk’s goal: the entry of D’Ambrosio, Gagliardini and Lukaku did not change Conte’s tactical system nor had an effect on Gasp’s counter-moves.
The curse of the bad period, then, leads the fans to experience that bad feeling of “every shot immediately is a goal “. And in fact it has been on social media for some time Handanovic’s trial started that if on Miranchuk’s shot his life was complicated by the speed of execution of the Russian and by the involuntary tunnel suffered by Bastoni, he did not even succeed in a miracle, as he had been accustomed to all these years. With you he will never deprive himself of his number 1, also because he is the captain and reference in the locker room, but it is a point on which Marotta and Ausilio must reflect in view of the future transfer market.
But it wouldn’t be a real trial, even if we’re talking about football, without a defense. And then it is right to acknowledge Conte all the difficulties of the reduced minutes of Lukaku, clearly out of condition (with the aggravating circumstance of the little problem of Lautaro before the match and of a Sanchez on his return), in addition to complications from Covid, who first took away and then returned Gagliardini, not surprisingly starting on the bench. All factors on which the technician seems not to want to complain but which must be put on the scale. Now the break for the national teams: afterwards, Inter will have to go back to racing to fix the league table and relaunch in the Champions League group.
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