The Inter player scored his sixth goal in Serie A this season against Genoa, his personal best: “Goal records only count if they bring a title…”
Before the disastrous return against the icy Bodo Glimt, Federico Dimarco had responded on TV with a blow of the ax to a mischievous question. He was asked to choose between the scudetto, Champions League and qualification for the World Cup: “Let me tell you two, come on: scudetto and World Cup…”. The noblest European cup, slipped through the fingers not once but twice, not even contemplated. Far from the horizon. On the contrary, the Inter fan put the Italian flag and the tournament that has been chasing the whole nation for twelve, infinite years on the same level. Clearer than that, it’s hard to say. Listening to those words again after the expulsion from the Champions League, one understands why no one in Appiano was really tearing their hair out over the Norwegian disaster and why everyone, instead, jumped out of their chairs yesterday after yet another goal from Dimarco in his thousand and one night championship. The Nerazzurri winger also tamed Genoa with his usual laser masterpiece with his left foot and, in this way, Dimarco followed up on his proclamations from a few days earlier: the priorities at Inter have always been evident if the best player of the season chose to pronounce himself in that way. Yesterday, however, he was more ecumenical at the end of the match: “From here to the end all the victories will be heavy: after every defeat we reacted as a great team. It’s difficult to explain my goal, but I scored a similar one against Verona…”.
with skates
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There is, however, no one in these places who unbalances a match, or rather a championship, like Dimarco and the stubborn numbers, which are constantly updated, are there to testify to it: yesterday’s was his sixth goal in Serie A, to which is also added a hail of fifteen assists. It means that the blue winger has participated in a more or less direct form in 21 goals and that he affects the cause more than that cannibal Lautaro: Toro has a total of 18 and is second of the entire team in the championship. Further down, other prodigies, more human when compared to the Inter player: with a total of goals plus assists of 15 we can see Nico Paz, who the Nerazzurri will challenge the day after tomorrow in the semi-final of the Italian Cup – Inter also wants that for a domestic “double” that will remove even the slightest bitter aftertaste for the Champions League -, then at 12 he follows the Juventus player Yildiz. In short, if we were to vote for the MVP of the season now, there wouldn’t be a centre-forward or an attacking midfielder on pole, but a winger who runs across the full flank. Indeed, Queen Arianna Fontana, Nerazzurri’s favorite and guest at San Siro, skates like on ice, watching him excitedly on the sidelines and peeling her hands after the first volley goal.
within the borders
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It’s difficult to dominate from that position, but Dimarco 2025-26 seems to succeed in everything, at least from midfield upwards, at least within the Italian borders: in Europe, however, he only scored the free kick in Dortmund and for the rest no other goals and no other goals. After all, it was he himself who dictated the Nerazzurri’s preferences and, in the hope of repeating the World Cup, he moved forward in the championship: the six centers so far are his new personal best, given that he surpassed the five of 2020-21 and 2023-24. “Goal records only count if they bring a title…” he wisely added after the match. Now he travels on completely different frequencies, at the heights of the best on the continent and even beyond, then by dint of taking photos with the Lega Serie A prizes of the day he will soon finish the family album. Given his birth as a Nerazzurri player, it would seem like a little letter on stamped paper sent to his cousins, but away from the flank Dimarco suddenly becomes cautious: “Let’s think about Como first, there’s little to send messages now…”.
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