The Turk attempted 106 passes, missing only 6, reflecting a practically perfect match, in which he also hit a post
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Mister 100 passes (positive) took the Italian derby. With another killer performance. Yet another of his season. Hakan Calhanoglu had rested, due to disqualification, last Sunday in Florence, but he returned in style against Juventus, in the most important and heartfelt match, the one that may have directed the championship race. The Turk, in front of his compatriot Yildiz, gave a football lesson to the… Football scale: 100 correct passes out of 106 attempted, 8 through balls (one from… PlayStation on which Thuram almost missed the mark). 1-0), a chipped post and 7 recovered balls. An Oscar-worthy direction for one of the idols of the Curva Nord. A lifetime seems to have passed since his years as a Milan player…
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At the moment Calhanoglu is probably the best playmaker in the main European leagues: he is having a year to remember, with 11 goals scored (9 in Serie A) and above all hundreds of passes for his teammates. Few would have thought in August 2022 that Inter could not only do without Brozovic’s defense, but that they already had a more decisive player than the Croatian at home. The Turk did well in adapting to his new role. Well done to Inzaghi for focusing on him and making him acquire skills in the non-possession phase. Because the Nerazzurri number 20 is now a complete player, who creates and destroys, interrupts opponents’ actions and starts again. Like modern players who are difficult to give up. That’s why Asllani, an Albanian international and a boy with great prospects, is getting so few opportunities. You can’t give up a Hakan like that.
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With a plus four (with a game to recover) on Juventus, Calha dreams of winning the first tricolor of his career. That little triangle that eluded him in 2021-22, in his first Inter season, and which he saw end up on the chest of Milan, the club he had left by not renewing his contract. There were months, from May 2022 onwards, in which the twenty-nine year old from Mannheim suffered teasing from his former fans and ex-teammate Ibrahimovic. He put things right with the five derbies won in a row and with the Italian Super Cup final won in January 2023 in Riyadh (“We ate them: 3-0 and home quickly” he said), but the real “revenge” (sportingly speaking, let’s be clear…) he will only consume it when he has the Italian champions’ cup in his hands. At that moment a circle will close and the no said last summer to the millions (many…) that Arabia offered him will make more sense. Hakan is happy in Milan and at Inter he feels like a king. He is only missing the championship, but after another night as an absolute protagonist, he feels that the finish line is ever closer.
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