Last season the “forbidden touches” at Ferraris and with the Biancocelesti cost the Nerazzurri 4 points and the Scudetto. In Riyadh the useless blow in the clash with Castro resulted in the equalizing penalty
One hand leads to another, and Inter always returns to square one. The key issue, if anything, is that the hand is the same, reckless and inappropriate, especially in one’s own penalty area: it is clear how much Yann Bisseck’s hand/arm fouls weigh on this 2025 Nerazzurri season, which ended without a shred of a trophy. It is a gigantic factor, like the desert that looks towards Riyadh and from which the wind comes which here, for the second year in a row, blows in the opposite direction to Inter. This other reckless intervention, on which there was no foul by Castro looming behind, was not needed to understand how the big German has obvious coordination problems. Everything becomes magnified in the hottest actions, in close melees in front of one’s goalkeeper, when the ball seems to be attracted by a mysterious magnet: the good that Yann produces in progression, or even in advance of the center forward with his back to the goal, ends up evaporating in the face of these macroscopic mistakes.
dramaturgy
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The past is, by now, sadly known to Inter dramaturgy because, almost on the same type of action, the Nerazzurri have already sacrificed the 2024-25 scudetto, the one put in brackets precisely by the same limbs that move disorderly. Last season, on the first day, in the recovery at Genoa, where Inzaghi’s Nerazzurri left two bloody points: then it almost seemed like a stumble born of chance, a justifiable naivety, a conditioned reflex. Time has shown the opposite because another blow has arrived, and what a blow, in the penultimate round at San Siro against Lazio, on a shot in the 89th minute by Castellanos in an action that is now history in our Serie A. Fate is fierce here, even then Chiffi was refereeing, as in this other unfortunate foul: tying the threads together, for poor Yann there is a treble on his CV. Despite the embarrassing way in which the Nerazzurri’s penalties were taken and the second half dominated with the usual waste of opportunities, there is now a spotlight on Bisseck. Yesterday, today and tomorrow.
and now?
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He had said he wanted the World Cup with his Germany and for this reason he didn’t seem interested in the sirens of the transfer market which, at regular intervals, also reach his ears: for Bisseck, at the moment, only Inter seems to exist, even at the cost of splitting itself. During the season he also played central, the order man of the defense, but then returned to the centre-right position in which he should feel at ease. Yesterday, for once, he didn’t have Akanji next to him, but a surprisingly positive De Vrij and, unlike his teammate, endowed with Olympic calm: the Dutchman was also cool in the penalty action, right before Immobile’s final goal. Bisseck now has the task of getting up once again, and it won’t be easy given the continuous roller coaster journey this season: he started it with an error in Udinese’s goal, in the first of seven defeats of the season. On that occasion he had retreated for no reason, doing the exact opposite of what was written in the perfect defender’s manual, and had ended up bringing his enemy, the Friulian Atta, into the house. From that moment on, there were six consecutive benches in Serie A and an increasingly peripheral role, before slowly re-emerging. As it happens, right before flying to the Saudi capital, it was he who scored a decisive goal at Genoa. In short, the good is all in front and almost never behind, not the best for someone who plays that role.
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