Inter, what’s behind Chivu’s words

Cristian Chivu greeted San Siro after launching a couple of clues, at the end of Inter-Udinese, in a press room hunting for answers. The first: “It is hard to change habits rooted over the years. Now I have to transmit my ideas to those I have”. The second: “point to remove some flaws in the management of the game”. Behind the words of the coach, a smart one and attentive to the declarations, there is an implied message. A sort of “I am here recently, there is a lot to work, but the mistakes we see today are not new”. And they should be filled.

the usual defense

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The first zoom is on the defense. Inter grossed another goal for an individual error, specifically by Bisseck, guilty of having let him kick attack from the edge and having temporarized too much. He also left him kicking with the right by making a mistake by the posture of the body. The German comes from a season with a long list of oversights, but moving the focus only on him is wrong. Breton’s goal was born from a ball possession lost from Inter on the left. Minute 40: Bastoni searches along Thuram, but the passage of the blue is inaccurate and the French is anticipated, thus triggering the transition of Udinese. Before Bisseck’s error, there is a naivety in the construction phase. The frenzy of looking for the lunge. During the first half Inter often sought this solution, a typical feature of sticks (see the assist for Thuram in Verona-Inter last year). Hence the phrase on the “defects on management”. Chivu is trying to inculcate his ideas in a rose that has come for four years of automatism. The incomplete, the high pressing and the search for depth are some of the principles of the Romanian.

Module changes

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Inter habits are strange. And not all negative, indeed: we are talking about a team that has reached two Champions League finals in three years, won a Scudetto, a string of cups and fought at the top. The Inzaghi band has always been recognizable for the harmony of play and attitude, but also for the use of a single form: the 3-5-2. Chivu is trying to shape a new concept of fluidity linked to the change of scenario with the race in progress. Against Udinese, below 2-1 twenty minutes from the end, the coach tried both 3-4-2-1 and 4-2-4. Esposito moved behind the Thula and put on the field all four points, with Thuram and Bonny on the bands. Nothing concrete. It will take some time to be able to lock this mentality in a series of heads used to anything else.