ROME – INTER, THOSE WHO DO NOT WIN ARE LOST! SNEIJDER CANNOT MAKE IT, RANIERI STARTS AGAIN FROM 4-4-2. DE ROSSI WILL BE THERE, BUT NOT FOR THE WHOLE MATCH.
Everything as a group does. Everything except the weather, which is driving Italy and its championship crazy these days. And so Roma-Inter experienced two moves in the space of a few hours: on Thursday the League brought it forward to Saturday afternoon, only to then postpone it to Sunday due to the snow emergency (which also entails the postponement of Catania-Rome to Wednesday). It wasn't cold on 17 September, but the two teams were having a difficult time, just like today. Inter-Roma was preparing to decide the future of Gasperini and Luis Enrique, and the final 0-0 ended up penalizing the Nerazzurri coach, who would soon be sacked.
One round later, things aren't so tragic anymore, but Roma and Inter are still not fully convincing. Ranieri's men are doing better at the moment, but more for the standings than for the game. The 5 points more (but Roma have to make up a game) allow Inter to dream again of the Champions League, provided they resume the path they interrupted last Sunday. The defeat against Lecce by Serse Cosmi (irony of Romanist fate to the core), took away certainties from a team that seemed to have found the right alchemy. And if the attack started working again at home against Palermo, the defense conceded worrying openings, conceding more goals in a single match than in the previous two months. Paradoxically, the absence of Sneijder could lend a hand to Ranieri, stopped by a contusion to his leg and not called up for the match at the Olimpico.
The coach from Testacci (who will return to his city as an ex), will thus be able to return to his beloved 4-4-2, which won't be pretty to look at but has proven to be very effective. On paper, therefore, it will be a wait-and-see Inter, who will wait for Roma in their own half to then hit them on the counterattack. Logic would suggest Luis Enrique to take this into account, but the Spanish coach, as we know, hardly shapes his team on the opponents. Sunday's match worries the Giallorossi a lot, relieved in any case by the recovery of De Rossi, who will grit his teeth and return to the field after a three-week break (but, as admitted by Luis Enrique, he won't play 90 minutes). The latest results have knocked down the Romanist square, which would need a victory to truly believe in the Spanish-American project again.
