Inter 0-2 Sassuolo, inside the crisis of Inzaghi’s team

Five points in the last 5 league games certify the first crisis of Simone Inzaghi’s Inter. Of course, there are those 29 shots towards the haunted door of Consigli without scoring a goal to suggest a trip to Lourdes, but if the Piacenza coach himself at the end of the match appeared angry with his for the wrong approach there will be a reason. After the 0-0 at Atalanta, a very painful success came with Venice, the harakiri in the derby, the draw in Naples and the defeat against Sassuolo. In this way, championships are not won.

Tiredness and quality

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From Friday, in the home of a Genoa very different from the one annihilated at the debut, a new championship begins. And there will be no more room for error, the dowry has been wasted in this complicated month. The first fact that catches the eye is that of the not very titular who for the first time have not been able to take the opportunity. Dimarco is too tender as deputy Bastoni, Gagliardini has run in circles, Darmian has not guaranteed the push of Dumfries and Sanchez has been less lucid than in the last few outings. But this also recalls the tiredness of the front lines, with Calhanoglu blurred – he loses the ball that leads to the first goal -, Barella less explosive and above all out of position, Perisic back among the humans and a Lautaro who is now becoming a coincidence because in the championship he hasn’t scored in two months, he ate a surreal goal and is too often on the ground protesting with the world and the referee.

Epic addiction

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The first time without Brozovic confirmed that the Croatian is the only one without a real deputy. Absent Epic, the wall in front of the defense has failed, but above all the man who knows how to clean up dirty balls and start the action without losing that game time that allows you to find the opponent not always deployed. Without forgetting that Barella basso loses half of its strength. In hindsight, perhaps it was better to centralize Gagliardini or Calhanoglu. With Vecino in the pits and now at the end credits and a Vidal who had given so much against Liverpool, the blanket in the middle is covered short. And in a moment like this Sensi would have served.

Small and pressure

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The defeat with Sassuolo sets off another alarm bell. Inter had built their advantage by practically always winning against the small and medium-sized ones – left only two points at Sampdoria -, limiting the damage of an uncertain path in direct clashes (beaten only Naples, in the last 15 ‘of the 7 matches against the big players conceded 8 goals without making any). The Dionisi gang – which had already put the Nerazzurri in difficulty in the first leg, before the turnaround signed by Dzeko – is instead the first to make a full booty. Now the calendar grants two more easy rounds on paper, to Marassi and at home with Salernitana, in the round of Napoli-Milan. In short, the margins to return to the top are all there, even before the recovery with Bologna. But at this point the head also becomes decisive. The pressure increases and you have to know how to manage it. That was Conte’s strong point. For Inzaghi it is a great challenge.