2023-04-19 05:46:14
His best defender Milan Skriniar has disappeared from the radar, his star striker Romelu Lukaku is disappointing and his coach Simone Inzaghi is on the grill after repeated missteps in the league which jeopardize qualification for the next C1.
Inzaghi, without net
Inter have won just two of their last ten matches in all competitions: a starving record for a side close to the Champions League semi-finals after their 2-0 success in Lisbon and the European Cup final. Italy (1-1 in the first leg against Juventus, in Turin).
The championship concentrates concerns: with a single point in its last five outings, the Nerazzurri have slipped to 5th place in Serie A, out of the Top 4 qualifiers for the C1.
Qualifying for the lucrative C1 remains the priority, given the fragile finances since the Covid-19 pandemic (385 million euros in losses over the last two seasons). Missing it would probably sign the end of Simone Inzaghi’s lease, on the bench since the summer of 2021, according to the sports press.
“The results are not good but things are not bad in terms of performance,” Inzaghi defended himself on Tuesday.
“I read these things before the match against Barcelona (in the group stage, editor’s note), and the same thing before Porto (in the 1/8 finals). I’m used to it. It’s part of the job”, a- he added.
Some commentators observe that the now shortest path to the next C1 would be to win it this year. It is still necessary that Inter, the last Italian club to have lifted the Cup with big ears, in 2010, does not miss against Benfica, after a new surprise setback at San Siro on Saturday against Monza (1-0).
Lukaku, without success
If several executives disappoint, Romelu Lukaku concentrates criticism during a season disrupted by an injury in the fall, punctuated by racist cries in Turin and weighed down by a chronic lack of efficiency.
A great craftsman of the scudetto won in 2021 under the direction of Antonio Conte, the Belgian returned to acclaim last summer, on loan from Chelsea where he did not win. But the tifosi did not recognize their “Big Rom”, author of only three goals in the league and a few failures unworthy of his CV.
It should therefore not be kept and return next summer to the Blues, according to Gazzetta dello Sport.
However, it was in the Champions League that Lukaku had his best evenings, scoring the only goal in the two matches against FC Porto (1-0, 0-0) in the round of 16 and a penalty against Benfica in the first leg . It’s up to him to confirm on Wednesday that he remains the man of the big nights, even if he could still start on the bench.
Skriniar, no news
If Inter have lost their presence, it is also because of a much less hermetic defense: 34 goals conceded in 30 league games this season, against 32 over the whole of last season.
The long-term absence of Milan Skriniar obviously does not help matters.
The solid Slovak defender has not yet left Italy for Paris-SG, where he is expected in July, but it’s just like: he hasn’t played for more than two months due to illness. persistent back.
What worry Inzaghi who will still have to “tinker” in defense with Matteo Darmian or Danilo D’Ambrosio, but also the PSG which, at the end of March, had brought its future player to France for some medical tests, according to the press.
This return trip, apparently unappreciated by Inter Milan, widened the gap a little more between the Italian club and the Slovak, dispossessed of the captain’s armband in January when his future transfer to PSG became public knowledge. .
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