A not brilliant Inter, put in difficulty by a courageous Como, with ideas and well organised, took home three important points to spend Christmas in the most peaceful way possible, keeping the distance unchanged from the top: 3 points from Atalanta, 1 from Naples, with the Florence match to recover.
Defining a victory obtained against a team that is fourth last in the league as heavy may seem like a stretch, but we can call it that in light of the difficulties experienced by Lautaro and his teammates in these 90 minutes, for a thousand reasons. First of all, a flaw already shown in this first half of the season, namely the inability on some evenings to close games when they deserved to, an aspect which can then bring out the ghosts of surprises in the last minutes already experienced against Genoa, Milan, Monza , Juventus and lastly Leverkusen.
Let's start by saying that Inter deserved a Christmas like this: for how they were able to face the difficulties after a less than perfect start this season, for how they were able to grit their teeth when, like against Como, the blanket was short in some roles (today defense, in the recent past in midfield), thus remaining at the end of 2024 in full swing on all fronts.
There is only one team in all of Europe that is managing not to miss anywhere: Liverpool. Barcelona gave up several points along the way in La Liga, Bayern Munich did the same in the Champions League and also in the Bundesliga, where however they then took the top spot, while PSG, first in Ligue 1, is twenty-fifth outside national borders .
It is clear that Inter in recent weeks is like one of those people who know they are excellent and brilliant at their job, but who at the same time are overloaded with commitments and responsibilities and therefore from time to time get lost in a glass of water, in some detail that they intended to resolve first in order to then be able to concentrate on the next problem, saving energy on things that they considered of less importance.
“A victory for a mature team”, Simone Inzaghi rightly defined it at the end of the match. And he's right, because Inter have also learned to understand themselves and recognize moments in matches. She has accepted the fact that she has been more vulnerable in some matches, so she smells the danger sooner now, but without panicking. We could smell a bit of frenzy, yes perhaps, but it is a venial sin for a team that has scored its sixth victory in the last seven matches and is now looking forward with the right thoughts to the match in Cagliari which precedes the “Arab Super Cup” “.
Well, that's where we'll really see what mental strength this group will have, who now seem to have arrived at the right time to demonstrate their strength as they did in Rome against Lazio. The asterisk in the standings (referring to the match to be recovered against Fiorentina) will become double and will increase the deficit in the championship by 2 matches, with the possibility for those who do not make it to the Super Cup (see Napoli) to increase, albeit temporarily, the gap from the Nerazzurri. An aspect that Inzaghi also underlined: chasing continuously knowing that they cannot make mistakes, given that their rivals do not give up, it is not easy and the Italian champions will need to demonstrate why they have the tricolor sewn on their chest, once again.
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