Inter, all the numbers to hope for a scudetto comeback

You don’t live by numbers alone, for heaven’s sake. But these, after almost a third of the championship behind them, can at least provide important information to understand where you are going and where you want to go. In the case of Inter, in addition to confirming the ambitions imposed by the tricolor sewn on the chest, they reveal the double face of this first part of the season: on the one hand, the Nerazzurri find themselves forced to chase, with a delay of seven points in the standings compared to in Naples and Milan, they are first in almost all the fundamental offensive. The statistics collected so far by the Lega Calcio say so, which see Inzaghi’s team leading all the rankings relating to goals, shots, assists and crosses. Numbers that certify the quality of Inzaghi’s work and fuel the hopes of a comeback.

GOALS AND PARTICIPATION

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We have already talked about the ease of scoring, underlining how Inter are maintaining a pace similar to those of battleships such as Bayern, City and Liverpool. Inzaghi’s attack is the most prolific in Serie A thanks to 29 centers, three more than their Rossoneri “cousins”, but Inzaghi’s troop also leads the list of assists (20 in all, two more than Lazio), that of crosses (90, almost double those attempted by Napoli at 51), and that of shots on goal (67). The Nerazzurri are the most precise of the whole lot at the time of concluding, even if the Giallorossi lead by a large margin in the calculation of the total attempts (222 to 183). First for the quantity of goals scored by the head (8), Inzaghi’s troop is also confirmed as the best cooperative of the goal: no team has scored with several different players (15) and no one has scored more goals thanks to the substitutes in the match. course (7).

THE NEO

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The Nerazzurri, on the other hand, are in fourth place in terms of distance covered so far with a total of 109 kilometers against Lazio’s 112 (first), but respectively five and six more than Milan and Naples. But at the moment they run much faster in the standings, thanks to a continuity that Inter has sometimes failed. The delay in the standings from the leading couple is in fact the result of a few points too many left on the road. To bridge the gap, Inzaghi will have to understand what exactly gets stuck from time to time and there is a detail that is perhaps indicative: in all five matches in which the Nerazzurri have lost points (against Sampdoria, Atalanta, Lazio, Juventus and Milan ) were the first to score, however, always within the first 20 ‘. Against the Bergamo players the fastest goal, on 5 ‘, against the Sampdoria the most “late”, on 18’. Too bad that the opponent’s comeback has always come after, albeit in controversial circumstances (from Sensi’s injury in the final against Sampdoria to the biancoceleste reversal in the controversial final at the Olimpico). The newfound defensive solidity after the knockout against Lazio was a first step forward, but Inzaghi knows he still has to correct some mechanisms. The numbers, meanwhile, still bode well.