“Inter makes the news when they lose.” It’s difficult to blame Simone Inzaghiwho after the 1-0 – not exciting, for goodness sake, but victories are sometimes counted and not necessarily weighed – of Venice found itself for the umpteenth time remembering how, for three and a half years, the his Inter is a bewitching and convincing creature. Which rhymes, often although physiologically not always, with winning. Simple business complications office is a term often used to indicate Italian bureaucracy.
It’s as if, around Inter, there was an office for magnifying small problems. At most average, certainly normal compared to those of almost all the teams in the championship. Context doesn’t always help. The defeat in the Super Cup, given how and against whom it came, could hurt. But it can also be reduced to what it is: a competition that saves the season for those who don’t race for anything else. Frattesi’s stomach ache arrived in conjunction with the emergency in midfield: there has been talk for months about the two teams at Inzaghi’s disposal, it’s time to exploit them. For every problem, there is a solution.
Inter, in the first of 2025 at San Siro, will host Bologna with the aim of eliminating the first of the two asterisks that keep them behind Napoli in the standings. Winning would mean, virtually, putting the arrow towards the top. Here is the context, which must be remembered every now and then, without overshadowing everything else. Because we can think about many things, about the space that Inzaghi could give to young players and about the different striker that the transfer market hasn’t brought, about the defense where reinforcements would be needed. But two or three crooked things, which can also be straightened out, cannot cancel out a hundred good ones.
By the way: today Inter is waiting for ThuLa’s goals. The last time, 250 days agoin the 5-0 in Frosinone. In the last championship, it happened seven times that Thuram and Lautaro, now again starting as a pair, scored in the same match. In this Serie A, the pair explodes and is still at zero. Well, this would be a nice little problem to solve immediately.