Sunday night’s duel between Inter and Rome saw two Serie A heavyweights. A brief look at the 2-2 score would imply a fairly popular outcome among these teams, especially since the Giallorossi, although 14 themes from their conflicting parts in the table, had won their last 3 consecutive fites.
However, those who attended the game in San Siro watched Paulo Fonseca’s Roma dominate the game, especially in the middle of the moment, its newly designed 3-4-2-1 formula much more well pierced than suggested the time spent betting on the lineup. Inter had a chance to save a draw, and did so only thanks to an 88th minute penalty changed through Romelu Lukaku.
Antonio Conte came back once livid after the game, dodging even more excuses and deviations from why the functionality was so bad.
“If others say Inter is below average, what do you say about the other groups that didn’t end up in the four most sensitive?” said Chief Nerazzurri in a frustrating post-match interview. “Obviously, Inter was not provided when setting the schedule, because our schedule is crazy, while some groups have five days off. We played late at night in an outdoor game and ended up going home at 4 a.m.
“Everyone has to commit, but it’s the Inter that ends up having the shortest straw. Always. That’s funny. If anyone’s going to be slapped, it’s inter.”
Such outrageous and misleading behavior gives the impression that the trainer is looking to hide his own flaws. Just take a look at Conte’s determination to stick to the formula 3-5-2 that allowed Juventus to win three consecutive league titles between 2011 and 2013 to see that their strategies are outdated.
Even the last of those Serie A titles was seven years ago, and Italy’s obsession with tactics meant that what worked at the time would probably have to be rethought now. Atalanta has introduced the high-octane, high-voltage trend that we now see followed through Sassuolo, while Maurizio Sarri has taken his ultra-precise passing game from Napoli to Juventus. Fonseca of Roma has spoken of the preference to put tension too, but even replaced his technique when his team had lost three matches in a row.
Of course, Conte brought Inter to reform the society he had so lucky for Juventus at the beginning of the decade, and in many tactics his determination to stick to his philosophy and his taste as the player motivator “major sergeant” that Inter needed. .
Sunday night’s game exposed the fact that his 3-5-2, which is too 5-3-2, is not effective against groups who like to push.
In fact, while Inter advanced ownership statistics with 56.3% of the game, Whoscored.com statistics reveal that 198 of Inter’s 504 passes were in the defensive third, compared to just 94 on the home side.
No less than 206 of the 504 were in reverse, with the maximum combinations of common passes of the two between goalkeeper Samir Handanovic and defender Milan Skriniar (24), Skriniar with also central Stefan de Vrij (20) and De Vrij back to Skrini. Skar (20).
If Conte needs to see better results, he will spend more time wondering if his education will remain effective by 2020 than by looking for excuses for a bad game using examples of conditions faced by all parties.
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I am a competent and passionate Serie A writer, and I travel to watch live matches on the peninsula as much as possible. I really like writing for primary British newspapers, primary magazines and a variety of other internet sites around the world. I’ve been a big football fan since I was 11, drinking the game in every single possible way. My dad took me to see my local Stockport County team when I was young, and from there I got hooked! His grandfather played for Manchester City in the 1930s and scored a goal in a leading friendly against Fiorentina in 1934 under the watch of the Italian World Cup team. This is the occasion that introduced a holiday in Florence and began a love story with live Italian football.