Inter, this way you are more aggressive: as Chivu wants

It is now an Inter that is one hundred percent “made in Chivu”. Two numbers say it, 26 and 11. The number of fouls committed by Inter and Lazio during the last match. Question: Who committed the most? The Nerazzurri won 2-0, so the balance would tip 26 in favor of the Biancocelesti, but here a Chivu concept comes into play: aggression.

average fouls

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Barella and his teammates committed 26 fouls. A high number, perhaps even excessive, but which demonstrates how the Nerazzurri’s tendency is to attack from the start. This year, Inter are the seventh team in terms of number of fouls per game with an average of 14.5. Verona, first with 17, are surpassed by Como, Cagliari, Genoa, Bologna and Fiorentina. Last season the Nerazzurri finished this ranking in sixteenth place with an average of 11 fouls per game (with 54 yellow cards received). In 2023-24 seventeenth, in 2022-23 again sixteenth, in 2021-22 fourteenth. A clear change.

aggression

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Premise: committing fouls is also a strictly individual nature. There are aggressive players, those who wait, those who take risks, those who press more and so on. But it is clear that the increase in fouls coincides with Chivu’s request for aggression, revealed since the first training session and made public in the first press conference. The Nerazzurri coach also reiterated it after Lazio: “We managed the moments by always maintaining aggression and trying to steal the ball.” Another feature. Inter’s most fouled player is Sucic, with an average of 2.5 interventions per game and three yellows. Thuram and Pio Esposito follow. The posters of an increasingly aggressive team on the goalkeeper.