Inter defies its limits and is rewarded as bold. In Brescia confirmation that 'want is power'

It is unlawful for this Inter to ask for more: a team short of energy, exhausted players, weak mental vigor. And yet, in the midst of the most ruthless of Dante's circles, the formation of Antonio With you manages to get up again (three days after the 2-2 home match against Parma) by defeating Brescia 2-1 at home swallows. The combative was decisive Lautaro Martinez – that now for the industrial quantity of contrasts in which he engages is forced to play with his nose on the ground – and to a Romelu Lukaku in two faces: if on the one hand it seems to still be out of the turns and suffer the opponent's ball possession, on the other side the Belgian pulls (as if it were a godsend) a left to the Adriano from 20 meters, which definitively addresses the challenge in towards the right and arrives just at the edge of the moment of maximum suffering of the Beloved.

Local education presses: the International is good (and lucky) to hold. Both mental and tactical pressure: if the midfield fails to act as a filter, the defenders turn out to be bulwarks and prevent the brave freshman coached by Eugenio Corini to penetrate deeply with ball exchanges on the ground. In the Nerazzurri home the two lines are too loose, just as the spikes fail to give the necessary breath in advanced projection. But "that's okay", to paraphrase the coach's words at the end of the race. Four games in nine days, with the infirmary full: the record of three victories and a draw is without a shadow of doubt laudable. "I can't see a negative side, don't talk to me about performance". How he can defend his players Antonio Conte, no one else in the world.

The well-known quote "the law is equal for all", sometimes mocked by public opinion when it is glimpsed above the head of the magistrate while reading a sentence, is actually the expression that guarantees and grounds the values ​​on which the contemporary Statutes are based. the world of football, at the moment, seems to be uninterested in such talks, when in the Inter session of Marassi, in fact, Alexis Sanchez remedied a yellow card (the second) because of a simulation in the area, the entire national press (including us) praised the scrupulous application of the regulation carried out by the arbitration class. In Brescia, instead, the implementation of the manual does not comply with the episode of Ferraris: several players from the local team (not all, but many) spend the entire race on the red thread of stagings, provocations, unsubstantiated but destabilizing protests. The game manager occasionally draws the card, but the simulations are different and the discretion, to such an extent, would have no reason to exist. Otherwise, when compared to Sanchez's admonition, cases of disparity are created.

One of the men who particularly adopts the aforementioned attitude is Mario Balotelli, who returns to challenge Inter once back in the Italian league. The jersey thrown on the ground has not yet gone down to the fans. A gesture that among other things failed, despite the serious repercussions, to spoil such a magical evening (the 3-1 against Barcelona, ed). At the 'Rigamonti' the Ashanti warrior swings between the three Nerazzurri centers in search of the right ball: he finds few, and when he does not come into contact with the ball he tries to be unbalanced by an opponent. But Conte's team is smart. Of course, even a little lucky: if Samir Handanovic does the phenomenon between the posts, it must be said that even the same Balotelli helps the Milanese, wasting an exquisite opportunity to network two meters from the door with a certainly not stylized tiberia that delivers the ball in the hands of the stewards of the line Z.

Having said that, theInter he is able to enjoy – on the sidelines of a mangy trip – a nightly nap from the leaders. The technician has even given his disciples a day off, so that the boys can recover psychophysical energy to prepare (from Thursday) for the next trip to Bologna. Then the turn of the umpteenth midweek will come (again this time with Dortmund), then the meeting with Hellas Verona. A deadly tour de force, from which the team could break apart but also – and Conte believes in it, totally strengthened from the mental point of view. Now the last three stages, to get to the next starting point. Wanting is power.