Stramaccioni: “I don’t need my advice to Chivu. Inter have the qualities for the comeback”

To observe football has always been used to it. First as a coach, when just like Cristian Chivu he was promoted from spring to Inter’s first team. And even now, that the ball follows him as talent for Dazn. Certainly there is that Andrea Stramaccioni knows what he is talking about when we discuss the Nerazzurri environment, but also of the Napoli champion of Italy, which at least today seems destined to be chased at the top of the Serie A ranking.

Stramaccioni, can Inter reassemble Napoli?

“We are only on the fourth day: Inter have the qualities to do it and Napoli from this season has returned to being busy in Europe, aspect that risks influencing the championship. This year, however, the struggle does not seem to be limited only to those two”.

“Inter played four proactive games by always building a lot, but also by granting too much. At this moment the Nerazzurri team is first in Serie A as regards the percentage of goals conceded in relation to the number of attacks received. Translated: he takes goals with an ease on which we must work”.

Too many goals taken to return to win the championship?

“One of the characteristics that Chivu is trying to transmit is the high pressing: the position of Calhanoglu, on the opposing playmaker, is an example. Inzaghi did it, but at times. So we tend to expose yourself to some more risk. To recover the summit, Inter must find that ferocity in the preventive markings and in the duels”.

On the level of the staff who sees superior?

“Inter has greatly strengthened the value of alternatives, especially in midfield and in attack. Apart from Akanji for Pavard, the others have strengthened the bench but the value of the first eleven seems to me confirmed. After years in which the Nerazzurri market has lived in zero parameters, now the attention turned on to under 23 profiles: correct choices for which you will have to have a little patience. Part, he took more experienced but always future players such as Hojlund or Lucca.

Do the new ones convince you, on the one hand and the other?

“Arriving in great teams always involves a time for adaptation, but it impressed me the speed with which De Bruyne and Hojlund have inserted themselves. Inter bank, the only ones up to the very owners are Sucic and Akanji. Then there is Esposito who deserves a separate mention: I like it very much and has all the papers in order to be the surprise”.

Chivu against Conte, news against certainty. A decisive factor in the title race?

“The leader is always decisive. We can say that Chivu, with Antonio, has the worst possible opponent in front of it: from experience, charisma, leadership. But be careful: we do not forget Allegri and his Milan, without cups and free to work and have fresher players like Napoli last season. And I was struck by the empathy that created Gasperini with Roma, as well as consolidated from the end of the season and evident in this season. Start of Tudor “.

So even Juve, Milan and Rome can fit into the struggle?

“Milan has built a midfield of great experience and leadership: it is solid, difficult to deal with, and Leao will show that if necessary it will also be able to do the central tip. Juventus is so solid, but the summit ambitions will pass from the composition of the offensive trident that has only one staple: Yildiz. For the rest, a little alchemy is still missing. In his image and likeness despite not having the ideal attack specialists for his game, which is why I think he will have time to be fully satisfied “.

The calendar smiles at the Nerazzurri, before an October of iron. The Rimonta operation starts from here?

“This is not the time to look at the ranking or the calendar, but to think that game after game. The objective of the Inter must be to armor the area as acerbi and companions have done in the past. And even Napoli has to find continuity of performance and results”.

From spring to a first team in difficulty after seasons at the top, Chivu’s journey recalls that of Strama: share? Would he have any advice to give to Cristian?

“Cristian does not need my advice because he is young but expert in his experience as an international footballer. He has already entered the players’s head and has had clear ideas immediately: confirmation of the system and work on old problems that Inter carried behind. He is trying to improve and implement with his ideas the qualities and performance of the team without revolutions or proclamations, and I like this”.