Champions League, the schedule will be decisive for the title race

Corriere della Sera analyzes the Champions League draw for Inter and highlights a crucial aspect: the schedule of European matches, which will be announced tomorrow, will have significant importance on the Nerazzurri’s season.

According to the newspaper, while matches against top-seeded teams represent the allure of the competition, it is the other six clashes that will truly shape the course of the tournament. For Chivu’s team, the draw was not bad: at San Siro they will face Liverpool, who last season won with a highly debated penalty in the final minutes, Sommer’s Bruges, Shakhtar Donetsk who play their home games at Stamford Bridge, the stadium of Chelsea, and Stuttgart.

The away matches will take the Nerazzurri to Dortmund, Rotterdam against Feyenoord, and Bratislava, where they will face Slovan coached by Yaya Touré.

The mission of reaching sixteen points, which guarantees direct qualification to the round of 16, appears achievable, but the newspaper emphasizes how this European journey could drain precious energy in the race for the league title. In this light, the distribution of the eight matches in the calendar will have a decisive impact on the season’s outcome.