Relentless Inter, Toro is ko Christmas at the top for the Nerazzurri

Serie A: first round closed. Dumfries’ goal to the leaders for the 7th win in a row is enough.

the challenge

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If courage brought points, Toro would have a much richer gift than that which puts him in eleventh place, and at twenty-five in the standings, when the season stops halfway. Courage the grenades also demonstrated in the home of the best of the company and with courage they went to meet yet another 1-0 knockout: Dumfries’ goal in the half hour and Inter in the seventh beauty in a row. This is how we grow, but, in this way, it is not enough to grow quickly: the first championship of the Juric era is telling this. The Bull must be judged in perspective, otherwise the knockouts in series, and all the same, away from the Grande Torino would assume the image of the glass half empty: the judgment must be positive because ideas need time to transform into results from special effects or , however, suggestive.

In the last forty days, Inter have granted little, or nothing, to those who have tried to put them in difficulty, because from the derby of 7 November to today, Simone Inzaghi’s boys have accustomed us to take possession of the duel and never leave it. Yesterday a different story was written and, as mentioned, thanks to an opponent, Toro, who went down to San Siro with the gaze of those who do not intend to retreat.

The good figure, the grenades pack it in the intentions: accepting one-on-one in front of Calhanoglu, Brozovic, Dzeko or Lautaro is not a trivial matter and having done so testifies to a concrete project to work on. The risk is to find himself helpless if you make a mistake by one centimeter and this is what happens when the Nerazzurri goal is scored: Lukic seeks central dialogue with Sanabria and his play is intercepted and transformed into the lethal restart of the Inter advantage. Shortly before, a horizontal action had freed Pjaca on the shot and the Croatian playmaker’s shot had ended up close to Handanovic’s goal. Translated: if you have courage it must be surgical when the opportunity arises not to surrender to the technical superiority of others as soon as you allow a crack. And if you have the courage you have to add who knows how to close the trade by inventing the unpredictable touch.

Sins of youth or knowledge to be explored, is the explanation for so little collected in the face of so much generosity staged. Juric knows this and he also knows that he must work and shape a group in his likeness.

The defeat with Inter is in the wake of those with Milan, Naples, Rome, Spezia and Fiorentina all with the minimum difference away from home as well as with the minimum difference the failures with Atalanta and Juventus have matured under the eyes of their audience: in the eight games in which Toro went behind he always lost, but once under he never skidded. «To achieve results with the big teams, we need to raise the quality. This team lacks what I call “a little love”: someone who knows how to handle the ball », says Juric. Now ball to the market, if possible: the first step was taken in the dressing room of San Siro in a long conversation between the coach and President Cairo. –