Inter, the feeling of failure

ROME – Outside alone Conte, its Bury who in the final minutes seemed to gasp. And out too Lukaku that when needed at a high level it disappears. Italian football was about to achieve something unique and historic: the entry of four teams into the second round of Champions. The power and the mystery of what we would have counted as a true company has given way to something no less enormous, but more rationalizable: the technical failure of a group built to be a protagonist also in Europe, but that in the six group matches never have been expressed in full. It is the confirmation that in the Champions League the muscles (strength), the centimeters, the legs and the willpower are never enough: it is the technique, it is the high quality that makes the difference.
From today someone will talk about an Inter championship again. The special defendant, inevitably Antonio Conte, “forced” to also measure himself against the weight of his exceptional commitment twelve millions: Especially at the time of failure, value for money becomes an easy subject and can therefore be dealt with and treated with ease, by some with sadistic delight. To weigh the meaning of defeat are the miracles performed by Atalanta me LazioCertainly less noble, complete and cheaper teams than Inter, who have tackled the European path with impressive audacity and courage.
Capable of surprising performances, Atalanta has in fact decided since September not to abandon the fairy tale: second consecutive overcoming of the group stage (with 11 points) thanks mainly to the successes of Liverpool and Amsterdam. Gasperini he had been coming for one of the most annoying weeks and yet he avoided contortions and made the game and his experience prevail. Contrast with Gomez They were not the result of fantasy and I do not exclude that some other player has had (or has) a crisis of rejection (natural) in front of an extremely demanding coach, but the atalantines must never forget that behind the many joys of recent years there is above all this sixty-two-year-old soccer teacher.
For its part, Lazio qualified after twenty years and without losing a single game: in the first 75 minutes of each game it was always up to the task, and the group that saw it as the protagonist was among the most complicated. In this way he achieved something no less enormous but more rationalizable.
Finally, the Juve, the chaser of the great dream. He managed to go from before the group was going to win big at the Camp Nou where he needed the 3 to 1: he solved it by scoring the three necessary goals without conceding any. the Barcelona of Dest, Araujo, Trincao, Langlet and the casts De Jong, Pjanic and Jordi Alba more than Barça seemed to me a sweet (horrible joke, but I think it gives the idea), the bench to Koeman the last gift-joke made to the club of Bartomeu. However, all this does not detract from the feat of the Italian champions.