Objective: to resume the race. Inter and Atalanta, having archived the European results with evidently different perspectives, return to "settle" on the championship, in an attempt to restart after the draw with Sampdoria and the defeat with Fiorentina. Agreed, we're only at the beginning, but the points already weigh, also because Milan, Naples and Rome are running fast and nobody wants to get too far from the train. On paper the most affordable tender seems to be that of Gasperini, engaged at the Arechi against a Salernitana still without points (20.45 pm), while Inzaghi will receive Mihajlovic's Bologna at the San Siro, a much stronger start than last season, as demonstrated by the 7 points collected in 3 games, the same as 'Inter. The Nerazzurri coach, who was absent at the press conference yesterday, is very embittered after the draw in Genoa and, above all, the defeat against Real Madrid: games in which his team collected less than they deserved, yet indicative of some problems, especially in front of goal .
The light, after the mistakes of Dzeko and Lautaro, came on, also because the defense is less hermetic than in the past and trust, as we know, can only be built with victories, especially in notoriously hot environments like the Milanese one. Simone knows he can't afford missteps, otherwise everything good that has been said and written about his course would come back into question, furthermore the 4th day will see the direct clash between Juventus and Milan, which gives an opportunity to score points on someone, maybe on both. In short, today's match must be won at all costs and to do so the coach will rotate the men a bit, inevitably tired after the National-Champions-Champions tour de force. His 3-5-2 will see Handanovic in goal, Skriniar, De Vrij and D'Ambrosio in defense, Dumfries, Barella, Brozovic, Vidal and Dimarco in midfield, Lautaro and Correa in attack.
“Inter have some weaknesses: we saw it with Sampdoria and Real – Mihajlovic's charge -. If we play as we know how, we can win: it won't be easy for us, but neither for them." Sinisa believes it, thanks to a Bologna that appeared much more compact than in the recent past, hungry for results and not for compliments. The rossoblùs will come to San Siro with the usual 4-2-3-1 with Skorupski in goal, De Silvestri, Medel, Bonifazi and Hickey in the back, Dominguez and Svanberg in the midfield, Orsolini, Soriano and Barrow behind the lone striker Arnautovic, ex (albeit very marginal) of Inter in the Treble. In the postponement, however, it will be Atalanta's turn, determined to reconnect the thread with the victory interrupted on the first day, when a goal by Piccoli in added time allowed them to conquer Turin. The Salerno match could be ideal, at least as far as we have seen so far: Castori's grenade, not surprisingly already on the gridiron, made water on all sides both against Roma and against Juric's Toro.
But in football, you know, nothing is taken for granted, especially at the beginning of the season, when the precarious physical condition and the mechanisms not yet oiled can lead to surprises. “They started off with three defeats, it means there are some problems, I don't know if they will change their way of playing, but we have to be very flexible – thought Gasperini -. Between Bologna Fiorentina we collected only one point, but you know what I thought: we try to archive them, but they were heavy episodes, which in Italy are often repeated and always in the same direction. In these last two games in the episodes we have been unlucky, let's say so...". Controversy aside, it is clear that Atalanta was missing something in these first matches, which the coach hopes to find again this evening at Arechi where he will line up a 3-4-1-2 with Musso in goal, Toloi, Demiral and Palomino in defense, Maehle, Koopmeiners, Freuler and Gosens in midfield, Malinovskyi in the frontline, Zapata and Miranchuk in attack.
The same game system also for Castori, who will try to save the bench with Belec between the posts, Bogdan, Strandberg and Gagliolo in the back, Kechrida, M. Coulibaly, L. Coulibaly and Ranieri in the midfield, Ribery behind the composed offensive duo by Bonazzoli and Djuric.
