Mister Scudetto Vidal and the Champions curse: Real double revenge

Inter need a big Wednesday and Arturo Vidal is ready. “+1. This does not stop us, we are always convinced that the team will have a great week” posted the Chilean after Marassi’s 2-2. The head is already at Real Madrid, expected at the Meazza in the first of the Champions League. That Cup that King Arturo has been chasing since he landed in Europe in 2007 and from which Inter were eliminated last year also for the ingenuity of the man with more experience in the squad.

Double madness

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That’s why Vidal will be on the hunt for a double rematch against Real Madrid on Wednesday night. Not only because in the last ten years Arturo has always won the national title except on one occasion: La Liga 2020, with the Blancos preceding his Barcelona. The one against Real for the Chilean is a special challenge also because on 25 November the 0-2 of the Meazza bears his signature in negative. It is true that the race had started badly even earlier due to the naive penalty caused by Barella (foul on Nacho) and transformed by Hazard. But the Spaniards, then without Ramos and Benzema, go on velvet after Vidal’s drama. Imbited for a penalty on him that was not even there, Arturo at 33 ‘first gets a yellow card for protests and then – unforgivable mistake – threatens the referee until he is sent off, which infuriates Conte. The nonsense, however, is added to that in the first exit, always at San Siro but against Borussia. With his players in the lead, Vidal first provokes a stupid penalty in the 63rd minute and then loses Hofmann in the 84th minute for the German advantage, remedied in extremis by Lukaku. Two races that will weigh a lot in terms of elimination.

Tiredness, Berlin and budget

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In short, Arturo has a lot to be forgiven. And he could even try from 1 ‘if Inzaghi, in addition to focusing on his desire for redemption, does not want to risk the tired Calhanoglu. Otherwise the Chilean will enter the race, as he always did this season in which – having solved the physical problems that had affected him last year – he has always been able to make an impact. Not that he is very fresh either, after his three matches as a starter with Chile. “Three games in eight days killed us. I don’t know how many flying hours we did. This is madness,” he posted on Instagram last weekend. But he never backs down. He wants to beat Real and keep the Champions dream alive, where he is stopped in the final lost in 2015 with Juve, in the 3-1 Barcelona in Berlin. Then many disappointments, often at the hands of Madrid itself. In fact, if the score in the Liga is in the active (2 wins, one draw and one defeat), the one in the Cup between Juve, Bayern and Inter recites a merciless victory, two draws and 5 defeats in eight intersections with him on the pitch.