Inter, after Bologna we need redemption with Udinese

If it were a mid-twentieth century championship, Simone Inzaghi would have a week to pamper the wounded soul of his players and to recharge his energy for the next match. Instead, unfortunately for Inter, we are in 2022 and the calendar is very busy, with Serie A bringing the reigning champions to the field already on Sunday against a light, carefree and threatening Udinese. Time is short, less than four days, but the coach has the urgency to make sure that everyone understands the extra-ordinary nature of the Bologna slip.

Scarring

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The first and most obvious point to resolve is morale. It may seem trivial, but the Dall’Ara’s patatrac is a painful one. He is suffering from a comeback, he is all the more so for his own faults and he is so with a “tomorrow” in which Milan is at the head of the championship, with no asterisk to dissolve. In the black period of Inter between February and March, the coach and the players had repeatedly stressed that the difficulty of a busy schedule was summarized in the tight deadlines to gather the mental energies to prepare for the next match. When you win the task is easy, but if you lose … The Inter group, this is the goal of the coach, must arrive in Udine with the spirit of the past few weeks and the beginning of the match at the Dall’Ara. Overwhelming, proactive, confident in one’s own means.

Handanovic like Brozovic

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Chapter two: absences. Ionut Radu’s mistake risks leaving behind a dangerous subliminal message, namely that there are unbridgeable gaps. It happened with Marcelo Brozovic’s forfeits after the trip to Liverpool, with an unrecognizable midfield without the Croatian. This time Samir Handanovic was missing and the substitute became a negative protagonist. With the conditions to be evaluated by the Slovenian and Alessandro Bastoni, the group cannot run the risk of feeling powerless without some specific pawns. Also because the Inter squad is very competitive and the team is solid enough to make up for the gaps of the injured. Hakan Calhanoglu will also miss Udinese due to disqualification, but to aim for the second star, a formation is needed regardless of who is missing and fully confident of who is there. Time is running out, but Inzaghi knows he has to avert the lethal risk of 22 shaking legs at the Dacia Arena. He needs to press the “restart” button and resume from the last checkpoint, Ivan Perisic’s splendid goal after just three minutes. That’s the Inter that we need.