The former Inter coach re-reads the Italian Cup derby: “Bravo Sergio to insist on this 3-4-3, he has enormous merits. Simone’s season is incredibly demanding”
It is not yet time for sentences, because Milan Cup has not yet won this Cup – there is a final to play – and Inter divide between the head -to -head head with Napoli and the Champions League semifinal with Barcelona. But the 3-0 of yesterday said it: the devil became the kryptonite of the Italian champions. Inzaghi and his dreamed of the triple and instead find their wounds lick. “But the future, let’s remember, is still to be written. For both,” observes Andrea Stramaccioni, former Nerazzurri coach and today a technical voice of Dazn.
What was the key?
“The stubbornness of Conceiçao to insist on this new 3-4-3, Jovic’s extraordinary integration in this system and a newfined defensive solidity, helped by the change of system”.
How is it possible that 20 points of difference in the ranking have punctually zeroed in all the seasonal derby?
“It is objective: Milan has individual and team characteristics that create problems at Inter. They have been different derby by trend and development, yesterday is the one won in a more clear and deserved way”.
Out of 5 derby, Milan was at a disadvantage only at Riad: Inter are wrong approaches?
“No, not at all. Inter played very good 35 minutes by building at least 3 goals. Then Jovic’s goal came …”.
Did you expect to see him so decisive?
“I don’t know if Conceiçao, coach of Vitoria Guimaraes at the time of his debut of a 19 year old Jovic in Portugal, was already his admirer … but one thing is certain: I give great merit to the coach for having believed and insisted on him despite the millionaire purchase of Gimenez and having promoted him owner. I was the Milan I would Leri Jovic.
Reijnders is 15 goals in the season, 2 at Inter: where can it arrive?
“It is very strong, a modern midfielder who has a very rare feature: he jumps the man in midfield and has change of burning pace. In addition he is growing so much as a finalizer. Yesterday he fought the chest showing the coat of arms to the South. He has everything, Milan keep it tight …”.
Calling with another trophy after the Super Cup would the Conceiçao season again?
“I have been repeating it for some time: attention, Sergio has only been here for a few months but it has been judged to have been in Milan for years. He has inherited a complicated situation. Now he has found the form and also the players to rely on. The judgments in football change quickly, his work must be evaluated at the end of the season”.
Inzaghi reasoned with turnover: a mistake?
“Simone is working in an incredibly demanding season. Inter started yesterday but fell a lot in the second half, his opponents begin to prevent that in the finals he can physiologically grant something”.
Yesterday’s knockout comes after that of Bologna. Now the pressure for the ghosts of a season that can end without titles or the desire to start after this double braking weighs more?
“In Bologna he decided an episode in the 92 ‘, yesterday was a bad defeat, but all Inter must think only of the field. The future has yet to be written. He has the strength to play again Scudetto and Champions but must remain mentally charged”.
Taremi has still flop.
“He never managed to show his qualities. Little to say, he did not make himself as expected.”
Do we use this derby to “read” the condition of Inter towards Rome and Barcelona?
“I don’t remember an” accustomed “Inter to lose two races so heavy below. Never as Inter will be called to demonstrate all its value: Sunday against Roma will really be a key match”.
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