Physically and mentally back from the international break, it is now up to Cristian Chivu to regroup a team more demoralized than energized by the results that emerged from the World Cup playoff matches. Calhanoglu is the only one celebrating, while all the Italians and Zielinski are licking their wounds after a bitter elimination. In this sense, today’s edition of La Gazzetta dello Sport paints a picture of the situation that is not exactly reassuring.
Directors and the coach, who were all present yesterday at Pinetina, mainly agreed on one point: at this moment, anxiety and the fear of winning are the main obstacles in the race for the Scudetto. There are eight matches left until the end of the championship, in which Inter must manage a 6-point lead over Milan and a 7-point lead over Napoli. At the same time, the newspaper reveals an aspect mainly related to president Marotta.
“Rarely, in fifty years of football, had the president seen players so wounded by a sporting disappointment,” writes the Rosea. A clear sign that, as of today, the group of Italians above all needs to be recovered from a mental point of view. It should also be said that Chivu has already done important work in this regard, when at the start of the season he took over a team destroyed in the Champions League final and just abandoned by former coach Simone Inzaghi.
