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Not even the time to speak of a sprint to two, about Naples and Inter who tough for the Scudetto, of the Atalanta who is satisfied with the podium, and the script of the championship still surprises, reopening speeches that seemed closed. Inzaghi on Thursday goes badly to the carpet against a Fiorentina never so shiny. Drama, crisis, questions. Conte, instead of lengthening, cannot overcome the best Udinese of the season and in the end it must be happy like a par. Less concrete Naples, hesitant in defense. Mentally tired? It is not clear where the merits of the challengers end and where the embarrassments of the fugitives begin, but today the first answer will come. It will not be the key match of the Scudetto, but Inter-Fiorentina could be the turning point, in all senses, for the Nerazzurri.

“Return” race immediately after the impressive 3-0 of the Franchi. Naples 55 points, Inter 51: to remain glued to the wheel of Conte there is only a result. With Atalanta relaunched by goals to the burst of attributes and one point: how to consider it out of the games, beyond the gasp strategy, always on the attack, in pressing, man against man, except when the theme is the Scudetto? Talking about crisis for Inter is exaggerated. Last week the Nerazzurri were those of the Scudetto. It is not true, the same hunger is missing, the defense is more distracted, someone ages maluccio, and the turnover, necessary, is destabilizing. But there is no one in Europe who, with the new calendar, manages to maintain a winning continuity. Or rather: there was only the Liverpool that yesterday was eliminated in the Cup of England from Plymouth, last in the English B. With Fiorentina a one -off defeat can be there. Winning tonight would erase the suspicions of a descendant parable, archiving that knockout among the inevitable flagments of a sixty -playing season. A second ko could be dramatic. An unexpected hand came from Udinese: Inzaghi thought he was tonight at -6, instead the points to be recovered are “only” four. After Fiorentina, the derby with Juve on Sunday, Napoli in early March, then Atalanta before the stop for the national teams: in a month all the truth, nothing but the truth. Or maybe not, because in the same period Napoli sees it with Lazio who resumed to run and score and, after Inter, finds Fiorentina who scares. The real Fiorentina is this and Palladino is really good: he invented a team lady with all noble “waste”, from De Gea to Kean, repudiated and reconstructed by him. The toy had not broken in December. The gears were jammed for seeing death in the face when Bove collapsed lifeless, and because Bove himself was the center of gravity, guaranteeing a tactical balance to Manduzukic Among the departments, now found with Folorunsho and the return of Gud. Fiorentina, the Juve of Kolo Muani who does not yet know how he plays but resolves situations, Milan who has changed identity but now he must find a defined style, Bologna held back in Lecce but always up there, and the Rome that is re -emerging but is discontinuous. Nobody gives up the grip, at most slowed down a little. Unless the storm is unleashed tonight.