Milan sinks! After AC Milan's Black Saturday, here she is disastrous Sunday for Inter. That he had to win to keep the Champions League dream alive and that instead he finds himself licking his wounds for the umpteenth time. "Fault" of Torino, capable of bridling the Nerazzurri for over 90' and then hitting them 10 seconds from the end with Moretti. Heavy goal that of the defender, both for the grenade (the victory in the Inter San Siro had been missing for 27 years) and for Mancini's men, now forced to restart from a bad and unexpected beating. “Football can be cruel – the analysis of the coach from Jesi. – We slept, we shouldn't have conceded the corner and marked so badly. But I'm happy with the performance, the team did what they had to. A good start to the second round would have been important but the path is the right one. Now we can only roll up our sleeves and try to reach third place”. Mancini still believes it but the facts are against him. Since the derby on 23 November, his first game in place of Mazzarri, the Nerazzurri coach has only scored 2 wins in 9 games, against 4 draws and 3 defeats. Too little to seriously attempt the climb to a Champions placement which is now 8 points away (and if Napoli were to beat Genoa tonight they would become 10).
Yesterday's defeat could also have serious implications from a psychological point of view. Before Thohir and Brozovic, the Nerazzurri were called upon to give a precise signal instead, regardless of a more sporadic defeat than anything else, they never managed to turn on the light. Very high ball possession but few, very few real goal opportunities: two in the first half (Podolski and Icardi), one in the second (again the German). Too little to undermine the excellent grenade defense, as always perfectly deployed by the excellent Ventura. Now all that remains is to hope for the market: the last week, as Thohir himself admitted, could bring some other gifts. There is talk of a defender (Rolando?) and a midfielder (Lucas Leiva or Diarra), then waiting to prepare the ground for June. Provided that the Champions League arrives, an objective that is increasingly distant from the Nerazzurri's near future.
If Sparta mourns Athens certainly does not laugh. The Milan, in early retirement since yesterday evening, wonders about the reasons for a crisis that arose in the last period, after the progress shown before Christmas. The great defendant, ça va sans dire, is the coach. Regardless of the ritual declarations, Inzaghi he knows well how his position is very much at risk. The last resort is called Coppa Italia, at this point the most realistic goal remained. However, the arrival of Lazio scares a lot, which is why Via Aldo Rossi, rather chilly in the last few hours towards Inzaghi (there are no public certificates of trust), is already looking around. The hot name (for June of course) is that of Luciano Spalletti, in the good graces of Berlusconi since the days of Rome, while for the immediate future, in the event of collapse, the focus will be on an internal solution (Tassotti). To date there have been no decisive movements but certainly the rumors are chasing each other, moreover in crescendo, and it does not matter that Galliani dined together with Inzaghi last night. One more day, then we'll know if Milan will continue with the current coach or if they'll start again from scratch. The umpteenth of a truly bewitched two-year period.
