Inter lunch on the Via Emilia. In fact, at 12.30, in the setting of the Mapei Stadium in Reggio, Sassuolo and Inter will inaugurate Sunday's Serie A match. what we did with Juve. We projected ourselves on Sassuolo, I warned the boys that it's a team that has collected less than it deserved. If we do our bit we can play an important game, in Italy all the teams are top level. I'm curious to see how we'll behave." Yes, also because this has been a decidedly atypical week for Inter. The reaching of the agreement between Moratti and Thohir cannot have left the team indifferent, always in symbiosis with the president. “Moratti has given us great serenity, urging the players to give everything to get Inter to go higher and higher – explained Mazzarri. - Everything else doesn't interest us, his words are enough for us. Moratti is in love with Inter: if he has decided something, he has done it for the club. The team and I have to think about the pitch. I'm living this moment like a coach should. I have to focus on the pitch and not on things we can't control. There was evidently a need for this change and for the entry of new forces. We, as a team, can contribute on the ground with our technical company production”. Starting with Sassuolo, where the coach should re-propose the anti-Juve formation. The doubts mainly concern Kovacic, in run-off with Taider, and also Palacio who could rest in view of the midweek match against Fiorentina.
At 15 pm it will be the turn of Antonio Conte's Juventus. Verona will arrive at the Stadium and the Italian champions will try to win to erase the post-Champions criticism. “There are enormous pressures here, we have to be good at living with them without being crushed, using them as an extra weapon to bring out everything we have – admitted the coach. – I already had a taste of criticism last year, when we drew the first three games in the Champions League, today the exact same considerations are being made as a year ago. There was talk of a Juve struggling in Europe, then we won against Chelsea and we became the Kings of the Champions League. We live of excesses in positive and negative”. He too ended up in the crosshairs of critics, Italian and otherwise. The continued exclusion of Llorente is causing a lot of discussion, and in Spain there are whispers that the Basque giant could even end up on the January transfer market. “I think it's unfair to be criticized for this – said the Juventus coach – the results so far prove me right. We all chose the Spanish together, with the club, like Pogba, Tevez and Vidal. And all together we support the players. He lacked the intensity, after a year of little use, but he'll get his chance.” Said, done. Conte has decided to make a turnover and the first to benefit from it will be the Spaniard, who will thus make his debut from the first minute. It will be a real exam for him, forced to convince the environment with an important performance, otherwise he will go back into oblivion. But the shift will not only concern him. “Only the same 11 can't always play, it's not fair, they all train hard – explained the coach. – When it was played every seven days I could always play the same ones, now it is necessary to make rotations and turnovers. Otherwise we arrive in January with shortness of breath and crossed eyes”. And then space for Storari in goal, Ogbonna in defense for Chiellini (joined by Barzagli and Bonucci), Isla on the right and Llorente in attack. On the other hand, no rest for the untouchables Tevez, Vidal, Pirlo, Asamoah and Pogba, despite the return of Claudio Marchisio to the squad list.
