Choices, style, attitude, results: Di Simone likes everything. Now the goal is to drive out the Bavarian taboo, after the extension it is considered a formality
Among all the moments when Simone Inzaghi could find himself face to face with the story, this is perhaps the most magical: there is something new in the Appiano air, while the spiteful rain is speaking spring. Never had the wind blew so strong behind the Nerazzurri coach, ever the harmony with his people had been so total. There is something mystical that leads Inzaghi, while in the secret of Pinetina he orders his assault game, and not only resistance. Courage beyond fear, what it costs. The belligerent Bayern arriving in San Siro so faces himself, with the timing of the greats of Europe that now belongs to Simone.
the last spark
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If Inzaghi is mirrored in Inter, Inter also tends to mirror themselves in Inzaghi: the movement is mutual, the two entities merge, even more now that it is tried to grab a Champions League semifinal against a tabù team at San Siro. Whether it’s the fans in adoration or of the same management, who plans the future always with him firm on the bench, everyone seems to really count on this new Simone, so European in the game and style. The consideration throughout the varied (and historically never fully satisfied) world Inter comes thanks to the last four years of growth, in which the technician has taped the previous corners a little at a time. Yet, in the last week, something different happened: the last spark was turned on in Bavaria, the missing one. Each Nerazzurri had been dreaming for some time, in fact, an elite night in the Champions League even in the direct elimination phase, perhaps against a candidate for victory like the great, but incomo Bayern: Inzaghi gave exactly what people asked, at the Allianz Arena took the last Nerazzurri skeptical.
new style
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It was the application in defense and the output game at the exit – the one that allows you to end up on the goal with the ball with an action started by the goalkeeper just before 90 ‘ -, but also the direct style beyond the field: many in the club appreciated the way Simone did not get a jacket for the jacket from the clever colleague Kompany. The Bayern coach, together with Kane – will be sitting next to each other even tonight in the Vigilia Conference -, complained of an alleged excess of exultation on the Allianz, as those who would already seem convinced that they have passed the round. Simone, however, reported the question in the right borders and sent the fuse into the enemy field. In general, it is increasingly determined, even with pointed words, and does not hide when with the hand it must show three, like the number of competitions it intends to win. In this case, then, he did not fall into the trap, but he reiterated how only the first half was played in Bavaria. On this same sacred concept he beat yesterday and will return to beat today in the eve training: Simone intends to prepare the challenge in an attempt to avoid excessive and always dangerous barricades. A draw might be enough, but it is also true that when Bayern showed up at San Siro in some cups ended badly: in the previous four, only German victories, the first is the most painful one in UEFA 1988-89, while in the following three in the Champions League the Nerazzurri never even marked.
coronation
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History rows against and at superstition, you know, Inzaghi holds a lot. But this time there seem to be the conditions for breaking the chains, taboos and continuing this, even more than momentum, on the whole walk towards another Nerazzurri triple. Inzaghi and Inter know that, when trying to win everything without any distinction, there is the risk of staying with a pile of flies in hand, but clubs and coach are in tune that they want to chase the crazy flight together. Then, however, it goes, Simone’s tailor -made tomorrow will be built. Stretching the contract that now expires in 2026 has been considered more and less and less as a formality. In theory, the corporate policy would be to always: for President Marotta and the DS Ausilio it is better not to start a season with an expiring technician, for this reason they have always applied annual tactical renewals to Inzaghi. But in this season the world has changed once and for all around Simone, for this reason it is natural to work on a longer horizon than usual: not only 2027, but an important option until 2028, complete with a salary adjustment. Inzaghi, who had entered Appiano on tiptoe in 2021 with a salary of 4 million and grown contract after contract, success after success: he already receives 6.5 with lavish bonuses related to the results and 7 should be the next gate. If it reached until the end, it would be seven seasons Filate sitting in the same chair, which at that point would look more like a throne. But it would be enough to think about the wizard Herrera and Mou, Inter crowd his kings only if they also win in Europe.
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