Good first! Inter wins three very important points more for morale than for the standings, at the moment still to be outlined, and makes it clear to Italian football that it wants to return to the protagonist as soon as possible. The game still leaves something to be desired, but significant improvements can already be seen compared to the last championship. Thanks to Mazzarri, a sort of "Mister Wolf" of Italian football, someone capable of sorting out even the most complicated situations. At the Nerazzurri he started from the foundations, to fix a defense that last year leaked from all sides, thwarting the good performance of the attack. And so, despite the fact that the opponent was anything but transcendental, he lined up his Inter with a prudent 3-5-1-1 formation, with Palacio as the lone striker supported by Alvarez alone, with Kuzmanovic called on to reinforce the fragile Cambiasso-Guarin dam . The result is that in the first half we saw a team without flashes but compact, who risked practically nothing. Then, in the second half, when WM realized that Genoa wouldn't create many problems, Icardi and Kovacic injected quality. “Let's not forget that these guys hadn't won at home for four and a half months, this psychosis had to be exorcised – explained the coach at the press conference. – You could have conceded on the first counterattack, so I wanted to give the team security and conviction. I had foreseen some substitutions, Kovacic had reduced autonomy and I preferred to put him in the second half given his qualities. It went as we had planned, we only conceded two dangerous chances to Genoa, so something is starting to show. I'm satisfied, you can see that the boys follow me". In fact, even in the midst of so many stunted geometries, the match-breaking goal is really Mazarrian-style. Action from the right with the revived Jonathan who puts on the far post for the onrushing Nagatomo, header and goal. Played entirely by the wingers, who have always been the strong point of the Tuscan coach. From then on (76th) the match went downhill, with Genoa too reluctant to reopen it (by the way, with people like Lodi, Bertolacci, Santana and Gilardino something more needs to be done) and Inter finally free to express their potential. And so, after Icardi's crossbar and Ranocchia's header miraculously rejected by Perin, here is Palacio's 2-0 goal, excellently served in the corridor by Guarin.
The success allows the Nerazzurri to enjoy the last week of the transfer market to the fullest, with the Eto'o suggestion that promises to be the host. And if Mazzarri has niched again (“You know, I don't speak publicly about the transfer market”), the club has opened up to the hypothesis. "Let's see what happens" smiled Moratti, "it's difficult, but nothing is excluded in life" echoed sporting director Ausilio. Speaking of Moratti, yesterday could have been his last match as Nerazzurri president at San Siro. In fact, on 15 September, the day of Inter-Juventus, the number one could be Thohir. "It's not nice to say last and I don't think that's the case" niched Moratti. That he is experiencing this unusual summer with bitterness, but that perhaps since yesterday he has found good reasons to smile.
