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I am absolutely sure that this afternoon Inter will beat Shakhtar and in Madrid, between Real and M’Gladbach, there will be no convenient draw. In this case I think like Antonio Conte: we are not in the canicular tournaments between bars, but in the maximum of continental competitions.. It is true that “biscuits”, as the results of an unwritten agreement between opponents against a third party are called, there have been many (and Italy painfully remembers that of Sweden and Denmark at Euro 2004), but it is equally true that the Real cannot a priori afford the draw. If, in fact, Shakhtar did not lose in Milan, Zidane’s team, doubly beaten by the Ukrainians, would be eliminated.
So Inter must win (and, in my opinion, will win) to secure, at the very least, the Europa League. I also know that it is not enough, but it would still be a European participation with the possibility, far from remote, of reaching the end, as happened last season.. It is obvious that Inter aims at the maximum, which is to enter from second to reach the knockout stages of the Champions League. He can do it because he has Conte on the bench and, despite the absences from midfield, a department that until two days ago seemed to offer wealth and abundance, because the team is aware of its strength even in the so-called second lines.
Outside of Vidal and Nainggolan (sure) and outside of Barella (probably), Gagliardini and Brozovic remain with Sensi mezzala. I don’t really think that Conte has turned to Eriksen, both because he is now expelled from the technical project and because he is always insufficient when he has been called upon to prove the facts. Why, then, should a team without at least three valuable players in the nervous department keep winning against an opponent very close to qualifying, at least in the Europa League, if it only draws at the San Siro?
Because, in my opinion, Inter has turned around and cultivated the humble and determined attitude of those who no longer stop, not even in the face of adversity. Meanwhile, he has a defense (Skriniar, De Vrij and Bastoni) that suffers less than all the previous ones and then because, above all, he has an attack that always scores an average of more than two goals per game. Conte knows the difficulty of the game against Shakhtar and knows that it will be a close rival with a double or triple shot (in the first leg he played a kind of 6-3-1) as well as lethal in the restarts, entrusted to Brazilians with fairy feet .. The preventive score will be essential for Inter, that is, that device that allows predicting how the attack of the others will develop in case the ball is lost in the offensive zone.
However, it will not be a very close team, Shakhtar precisely, to prevent Conte from winning the match and achieving qualification.. On the right, in my opinion, Darmian has an advantage over Hakimi (even if Hakimi can unhinge any device with speed and dribbling) and on the left, Young will play. The alternative is Perisic who, surprisingly, but not too much, could even play as a midfielder from the start, in this case instead of Sensi who still has a few minutes in her legs.
And then there is Lukaku paired with Lautaro Martínez. The Belgian is currently in the top five and therefore most decisive forwards in the world. Anyone who doubts him and his technical qualities is in bad faith or doesn’t know about football. Of course, Lukaku has also become irrepressible because Conte has put him at the center of his technical project and because the team supports him. But, on closer inspection, what he does for his teammates is much more than vice versa. It is true that Lautaro is coming out a bit obscured, but it is also true that the Argentine is the most compatible element with the Belgian’s plays.
Inter should not be in a hurry tonight. If you score immediately, the better. If you do it at the end of the first half or in the second half, that’s fine. On the contrary, given that thinking wrong many times makes us guess, it is convenient that the Madrid party is not exposed to “temptations”. The more in San Siro he keeps up, the more Real needs to get a full result. Certainly it is played on two fields, but Inter must have heads and legs just for themselves.
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