After the bitter battle of the Champions League in midweek, Inter is about to face the "bitter lord" Sassuolo tonight with a tired body.
AC Milan's unexpected draw with Salernitana allows Inter to be two points behind their opponents in the city in two games, which gives the Nerazzurri general a spiritual inspiration.
"Milan Sports" pointed out under the title of "Inter and Zhang Kangyang are getting more and more Italian" that Inter, which is currently in financial difficulties, once again uses "Italian forces" as a means of coping with the team in the current period of financial difficulties.
In terms of competition, it refers to the use of Italian players with strong discipline, strong execution and strong sense of belonging to overcome difficulties in difficult times.
For example, in this battle, Sassuolo, a total of 5 injuries and suspensions (Bastoni, Brozovic, Gusens, Correa, Besino), coupled with Inter's lack of physical fitness, the mental strength after the Champions League is bound to decline, in fact, it is very dangerous.
What to do?
In the face of the recently in good form, physical strength, tough opponent Front Striker Skamaka (Di Marzio will be the future owner of the Skamaca Battle, the morale does not need to be doubted), little Inzaghi may choose to let the recently exhausted Defrey substitute, choose to bet on Nokia.
Brozovic was suspended and experts suggested Char khanoglu to play in the centre, but Inzaghi Jr. preferred Barrera to play in key positions while giving Gagliardini a free throw.
In addition, Inter has played several strong battles before, suffering from irreplaceable worries, the next few games opponents are not strong, Inter will try to play more dan brosio, Damian and other roles, using them as an important "backhand".
Most of these Italian rotation players have mediocre qualifications, and it is difficult to play much role in playing Liverpool, but whether it is the Conte era or the inzaghi Jr., history has proved countless times that when the foreign high-paid big names in the team are tired, sick and in poor shape, let them go up, and they can deliver high scores most of the time.
This is the "lower limit".
It is not only Conte and Inzaghi who think about the problem in this way, but also the decision-making level such as Marotta and Zhang Kangyang.
In the summer window last year, because of the sale of Ashraf and Lukaku, Inter's public opinion environment was once very bad, with malicious speculation in Chinese and foreign media, fans protesting indignantly, and the situation was very bad.
The situation has changed subtly today.
"Milan Sports News" pointed out that the key to this is that Zhang Kangyang adheres to three principles.
First, insist on trusting the Italian management team headed by Marotta, Osirio, Antonello and others, boldly decentralize power, and not engage in any "layman leading insider".
The Zhang family has run a Chinese Super League team and knows the pain of being hampered by laymen everywhere (laymen don't say much, they all know), so they use this "blood lesson" for Inter's operation.
Second, insist on using Italian coaches.
A look back at a piece of history. In 2016, the Zhang family joined Inter.
In the early days of joining the lord, the high-level team has not yet been built, and the Zhang family hopes that Tohill will "stand on the last shift" and achieve a smooth transition. However, Toshir was extremely irresponsible, and everything was pushed forward, causing extreme chaos when Inter changed hands - Mancini did not know who to report to for nearly a month, and resigned in anger. The Zhangs held Tohill accountable, and the Indonesians grabbed Dutchman Frank De Boer to take over the team in a hurry before the league began, which became one of Inter's biggest mistakes in years.
In October 2016, Inter fired De Boer and the Zhangs began to look for a manager on their own.
After some auditions, Inter chose Pioli to fight the fire to coach, which was a controversial decision at the time, and the post-evaluation could not be considered a success, but it also set the basic policy of the Zhang family's management: the selection of the coach was inclined to the Italians.
Since Pioli, whether it is Spalletti, Conte or Inzaghi Jr., or even some coaches who have "hooked up" with Inter (such as Allegri, etc.), the coaches chosen by the Zhang family are all Italians.
Third, he is willing to pay a lot of money for Italian players.
Italian media have done statistics, after the Zhang family entered Inter, from the early Politano, Gagliardini, to the later Barrera, Sensi, including Bastoni, Pinamonti, and the signing of the youth echelon (many talents in the Inter echelon are spent to dig up from other teams, of which italian players are too many transactions, single expenditure is not high, but the accumulation of many years is not a small number) and so on, the total transfer fee of the expenditure has reached more than 230 million euros.
And now, Inter has reached the time to consider blood exchange, the Nerazzurri hand-picked blood exchange target, or some young Italian players such as Skamaka, Flatesi, etc., if the deal, will let the transaction continue to climb.
Although some of these transactions have succeeded and some have failed, the general direction and general policy are very clear.
The above practice is not 2 times a time, 1 year and 2 years, but once it is decided, it is adhered to for many years.
That's why the Milano Sport newspaper wrote on the front page "Steven Zhang is getting more and more Italian".
Again, Inter's period of financial hardship will continue for several more years.
The epidemic continues to dig a big hole in the finances of the teams, it is difficult to increase the revenue of Serie A at present, the bureaucracy of the Football Association is unable to reform the league, and the gap in broadcast fees in the Premier League of Serie A more than 10 years ago was about 3 times, and now it is nearly 10 times... Therefore, if a Serie A team wants to have European-level financial purchasing power, it is difficult to rely on "self-financing", and can only rely on the generosity of the behind-the-scenes investors (such as Juventus). At present, the Zhang family is unable to inject capital into the team, this premise remains unchanged, and Inter's financial difficulties are bound to continue.
The situation is such that Inter's future difficulties are foreseeable. But if the team has a clear direction and plan, things will always be better.