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Gabriele fazi
After Wednesday’s game, at home against Inter, the tension soared. It couldn’t have ended any other way. How things turned out, even the stones know: Inter cannot beat the affordable Shackhtar, they are eliminated from the Champions League and they do not even win a place in the round of 32 of the Europa League. In short, Inter’s European season is over. At the end of the game the coach does not sprinkle his head with ashes, but lifts up.
He says things like “Our opponents were distorted to play against us” and “It’s amazing not being able to score a goal for this team.” Fabio Capello presses him (“Haven’t you thought of a plan B?”), Conte is offended and angrily responds: “I have it, but I won’t tell you, otherwise it will be stolen from me.” Finally, he also responds badly to the journalist Anna Billò and, ultimately, the evening that had already assumed the contours of the nightmare, turns into a hellish evening.
BAD SITUATION
The next day, the situation does not improve much, in fact. A kind of long meeting is organized in which the parties try to understand what the situation is. On the one hand the direction and Giuseppe Marotta, on the other Antonio Conte who, apparently, at some point would have even questioned himself. A thing like: I am also willing to step aside. On the other hand, however, they would have chosen the path of diplomacy, not so much for a question of total confidence in the technician, but because, from a purely economic point of view, releasing Conte would mean throwing around 40 million euros out of the window. euros. , which added to the losses with the lack of qualification in Europe become … a lot of money.
Inter cannot afford an exemption, Conte remains but it is unclear with what conviction. The certainty is that the Nerazzurri only have one real target of the season: the Scudetto. What was once an “attempt to win the championship” has suddenly become an “obligation to win the championship”. Can Antonio Conte withstand this kind of pressure? Hard. The other problem is that of the staff, numerically abundant and built to manage the double commitment between Italy and Europe. In January, the club will have to place more than one player, including “the outcast” Eriksen.
… E ERIKSEN
Yes, the Danish. On Wednesday night he was seen on the field for about ten minutes, long enough to be classified as Inter’s most dangerous player. So here is another of Conte’s pillars: the “muscular” team always and forever. No, in Europe muscles are not enough, ideas are needed, those that are undoubtedly at the feet of one of the strongest midfielders in the world (the Danish, in fact), who has become a “ballast”. do you know why.
If we also add Lautaro Martínez’s reaction to the tortilla at the time of replacement (he did not take it well), it is understood that the tension far exceeds the risk levels. How will the whole thing end? Hard to say, we are sure to know more on Sunday: Cagliari-Inter is scheduled for lunch, a match that will tell a lot about the true intentions of the Italian runners-up. And, above all, of the true intentions of Mr. Antonio Conte, who in a year and a half went from assuming the role of leader to those of “endured.”
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