Inter, 21 days without Serie A: a deleterious or good break to catch the squad? | First page

They have been and continue to be convulsive days for everyone. The health emergency is affecting the whole world, it is not just us who suffer the consequences. Football should be the least of the thoughts but those who work on it and those who talk about it cannot pretend nothing, cannot stop dealing with them.
You can’t talk about football played, you can’t write about tactics, results or standings. In the last week we have seen everything, living on a roller coaster would have been more comfortable and relaxing. Nobody understood anything, the controversy never ended and the fate of the championship remained shrouded in mystery.
With a week of delay, after accusations, at least revisable management of power and decisions on the edge of the surreal, football closes. It closes its doors, closes to the fans and aligns itself with what the other European leagues are deciding. We could have been the first, we had the opportunity to set a good example but nothing, we just can’t achieve this amazing feat. I find it difficult to remember the last match of Inter. In fact, forgetting the defeat against Lazio could be a good consoling exercise for a Nerazzurri fan. But the reality is that Conte’s team he has not played in a Serie A match for almost three weeks and on Sunday the eve of the match against Juventus there will be 21 days of abstinence from the league matches for the Nerazzurri.

In the middle, the two games against Ludogorets which looked more like a couple of good training sessions to try some more tactical solutions.
So in what conditions will Inter be? What will be the morale of the players? What level of mental preparation will the Nerazzurri boys have? There are many question marks, we mix these questions with the novelty of playing an Italian derby championship without fans and the potion is served. It will be surreal and perhaps the most “strange” and exceptional game that Juve and Inter have ever played.
The forced break, however, allowed Conte to fully recover Handanovic and to work even more on Eriksen’s position and physical form. The Dane already against the Bulgarians at San Siro has shown a decidedly more competitive pace than the first releases and could really be the man for Conte in a game so decisive for the future of the Nerazzurri.

But curiosity remains. A 21-day break at these levels can be deleterious, but if you look at it from the “good” side, it may have made Conte’s rose better. Since the beginning of the year, Inter has never stopped, the calendar has always been busy and full of commitments. Conte has always stressed that with the Europa League, preparing matches so close to each other would not have been easy. These days, even if the opponents until yesterday could have been different (Napoli, Juve, Sampdoria, Sassuolo), it may have done well for the team and could have allowed Conte to have more time and freedom to work on the details never as important as in this occasion.
Sunday we will have the answer to all these questions. In the end Juve-Inter played despite having closed everything! Come on Inter!