Pepo Martinez’s mistake at the Bernabeu puts the spotlight back on the management of the goalkeeper position at Inter. La Gazzetta dello Sport talks about a “goalkeeper puzzle” after the Spaniard’s performance, who made a blunder that gave “Radu vibes,” according to the newspaper. “The suspicion that every Inter fan secretly harbored since the summer surfaced yesterday: in the long run, this year the goalkeeper could be a problem,” the article reads.
The newspaper reconstructs the management’s choices from the summer, when the club had decided to secure Vicario with a promise to buy. Things then took a different direction, with the approval of Cristian Chivu, convinced that the former Genoa player was ready to inherit the legacy of Yann Sommer. The Swiss player, moreover, did not have a better evening yesterday in Bruges’ defeat against Aston Villa.
The question posed by La Gazzetta dello Sport is direct: “Are we sure that, generally speaking, the club didn’t take too big a risk with Pepo as first-choice goalkeeper?” The emerging hypothesis is that Ivan Provedel could make his debut earlier than expected, with the former Lazio player possibly seeing his playing time increase in the coming weeks.
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