From Parma to the goal against Parma: deja vu Dimarco with the shirts reversed

The door is the same, the shirt… reversed. Federico Dimarco is increasingly at the center of Inter and the goal that broke the deadlock in the match against Parma is just the latest confirmation.

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But the curiosity comes from the path that led the Nerazzurri to become the star in the team of his heart, because Dimarco found his first goal in Serie A at San Siro, right under the Curva Sud, but wearing the Parma shirt and against Inter. We need to go back to 15 September 2018, the fourth day of the championship: Spalletti sat on the Nerazzurri bench, D’Aversa sat on the Emilian bench, Icardi and Gervinho were on the pitch. In the 34th minute of the second half Dimarco settles a less than perfect clearance from Brozovic with his chest, skips the Croatian’s intervention and fires the ball under the top corner with his left foot, passing an innocent Handanovic. The celebration is at least as explosive as his left-footed move: off his shirt and sliding onto the San Siro lawn. Dimarco will then apologize, before his path did not bring him back home, where today he is in all respects a pillar of Inzaghi’s team.

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Tonight’s goal is Dimarco’s second league goal, after the left-footed goal in the derby against Milan and the assists against Leipzig, Venezia, Young Boys and Udinese. Since November 2023, the Nerazzurri winger has found 6 goals at home, more than any other defender in the Top 5 European leagues. One fact, together with another: Dimarco is one of the 4 defenders (along with Hakimi, Frimpong and Grimaldo) to have scored more than 10 goals and provided more than 10 assists in the last three seasons – which consecrates the Nerazzurri winger to Olympus of the great wingers of European football. And tonight’s performance confirms this, so much so that when the ball arrives at the feet of “Dimash” on the left-handed lane, San Siro gets excited to the max, almost boiling over. An estimate that is the result of exhilarating performances. From Parma to Parma, Dimarco took over Inter. And this time he doesn’t leave her anymore.