And in the end…just enjoy the Milan. On the day when Lazio, Inter and Roma just couldn't go wrong, the Rossoneri are the only ones to take the full loot, with all the others licking their wounds for a difficult Sunday to digest. A question of results, of episodes, of Var: in this 22nd season, everything really happened but the final product does not change and sees the balance for the Champions League substantially unchanged, albeit with one game less to go.
Of the three litigants, the only one not left empty-handed is Inter but the draw with Spal leaves the same taste of defeat, what Lazio and Rome felt, exits beaten down by a Sunday that saw them bent by Milan. Sampdoria and…Var. Yes, because after the serious episodes in the afternoon (controversy in Naples and Crotone) here is the San Siro match to certify how the "slow motion on the pitch", as it is, isn't really working.
Cutrone's goal (16') is off the cuff, Irrati and, above all, Rocchi do not notice it in front of the monitor, with the result that an entire system is almost ridiculed: what is the point of technological aid if such errors are not correct? “Something like this is inadmissible – commented Inzaghi. – I'm sorry because they stopped us again, unfortunately we lost a match in which even a draw was too close to us".
Understandable anger that of the Biancoceleste coach, who however cannot affect the good performance of Milan, guilty up to a certain point of the referee's wickedness. There Lazio managed to equalize after just 4' with Marusic, left all alone to finish with his left foot from close range (20'), after which the match took place on the edge of balance with episodes on both sides .
Bonaventura's goal in the 44th minute following an assist from the excellent Calabria was decisive, with a second half that went goalless but with chances on both sides. This is the third consecutive victory for Milan: the standings remain far from the goals of the start of the season but the pace is finally the right one. “We had a great performance – the words of Gattuso. – We were facing a strong opponent but I don't want to hear about the turning point, our goal must be to think Sunday after Sunday and continue like this”.
On the other hand, those who necessarily have to change gears are theInter by Spalletti, forced to deal with the seventh game in a row without a win, the ninth if we also consider the two in the Italian Cup. The 1-1 draw in Ferrara at Spal leaves a bitter taste in the mouth and not only for the goal scored by Paloschi in the 90th minute: the performance, once again, was insufficient and below the standards they had set us up for the nerazzurri are used to it.
In fact, even without the final mockery, there would have been 3 points left thanks to an awkward own goal from Vicari (48'), too little for those who aspire to return to the Champions League and who, on the other hand, are performing inferiorly even to Europe League. “Matches like this leave a bad taste in your mouth – explained Spalletti. – We cannot find a continuity of behavior, a balance. I don't see any improvements, just too many voids: the ability to fight is missing, not the quality."
Big problem that multiplies to the nth degree if we talk about Roma, grappling with another internal defeat (the second in a row after the one against Atalanta before the break) and with a truly terrible roadmap. The knockout with Sampdoria certifies a crisis whose existence was suspected for some time and which has now become official: the points from fourth-placed Inter are 3, those against fifth-placed Sampdoria 4, testifying to a season that is dangerously veering towards the failure.
Of course, when things don't work out they don't work out, and so it happens that Florenzi misses a penalty, that Viviano saves even on Pellegrini and Under, and that Samp passes in the final with Zapata thus clearing the Olimpico (80 '). All with the usual open market cases (definitive news on Dzeko and Emerson should arrive today) and with a square increasingly concerned by the slope this yellow and red season is taking.
“We struggle to score goals and this conditions us – Di Francesco's bitter analysis. – We got off to a terrible start, in the first 25' we were never in the game and in general we conceded too much. Florenzi's rigor? At the moment there are many things that are not working…”. No one could be wrong, they all did it together: after all, the Champions League is done like this…
