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Inter Milan against Gladbach: trembling because of Vidal – Sport

Even a very prudent personnel policy is subject to the dangers of the imponderable, especially in sport. When Arturo Vidal came to Inter Milan after being kicked out at Barça in the summer, it would not have occurred to anyone to consider the Chilean a stopgap, someone who was simply taken on. Vidal, now 33, was coach Antonio Conte’s dream player, who is reflected in him. He wanted him at all costs. As a player, Conte was someone like Vidal, a fearless sergeant in midfield, tough with everyone and with himself, always “sul pezzo”, as the Italians say – fully there. He was brought in for nights like the one on Wednesday, first group game in the Champions League, against Borussia Mönchengladbach.

Well, the premiere was a huge failure. What’s more, if it hadn’t been for Vidal, Inter would probably have won. Or at least less trembling, which sounds like a nonsense in itself – trembling because of Vidal, only the opponents should do that. His two astonishingly amateurish mistakes led to the two Gladbach goals. The foul on Marcus Thuram in the penalty area was of a rather awkward, but certainly unnecessary kind. And when Jonas Hofmann made his way to the gate behind him, Vidal just raised his arm as if the video evidence could be straightened out. It couldn’t be.

Grade 4 out of 10 for the Corriere dello Sport, the deepest of all those involved in the game. “What was on his mind?” Asks the Roman newspaper. Inter managed to equalize 2: 2 in the 90th minute, which Gladbach brings in at least a moral trophy, especially in Italian evaluation categories: “Marco Rose gets the maximum with little effort,” writes the Gazzetta dello Sport, and that’s a compliment here, absolutely. One point in the “San Siro” without having shone, and it almost turned out to be three.

The “San Siro”, it has to be said once, echoes in these spectatorless or low spectator times perhaps more bombastically than any other stadium in Europe. The box, which will soon make way for a new and modern arena, is also fully occupied and a formidable body of sound. Empty but with a thousand lost spectators, every kick against the ball becomes a beat, with a full bass. But you could also hear again how obsessively the chronically dissatisfied Conte leads his players from the sidelines, to the point of hoarseness: not a second without instruction and instruction, as if it were a training ground in Appiano Gentile. You want to go back to the times when the direction of the coach was drowned in the din and hoots. It takes the miraculous from the spectacle, the hope of improvisation from art.

A team as unhappy as a coach, he writes Corriere della Sera

Again, Conte’s calls did nothing. After Real Madrid’s early evening defeat against Shakhtar Donetsk, there would have been an almost unique chance to steer fate in Group B in their own direction. At least a little, as start-up capital. But despite the many big names, the Milanese are simply not enough of a team for that. “Inter have no game,” writes Mario Sconcerti in the Milanese Corriere della Sera. The team is student-like, unhappy like its coach, predictable in its reflexes, no matter who takes on the design in the center. This time it was the Dane Christian Eriksen, who moved from Tottenham Hotspur to Inter last winter, hopeful, eager for a new challenge. But Conte doesn’t like it, he hardly sets it up, he probably thinks he is a “ballerino”, a dancer and beautiful player.

“Inter is just Romelu Lukaku,” continues Sconcerti. “The games degenerate more and more into a measurement between himself and his opponents.” The Turin newspaper The print headlines: “San Lukaku.” Holy Lukaku. The Belgian has scored both goals again, six goals in five games since the start of the season. But because Inter conceded an incredible number of goals, ten already, the generous contributions from “Big Rom”, as they call him, from the “Savior”, are not always enough.

This is also due to Corona. Shortly before the start of the game, Achraf Hakimi had also tested positive, probably the best approach, and was canceled. He is already the seventh player in Inter’s squad to be infected by the plague. Of all Italian Serie A clubs, only Genoa FC was hit harder. Inter’s entire central defense was now out for a few weeks, the starting line-up against Gladbach was a defense against embarrassment. And now another stove threatens, everyone has been quarantined for safety until there is clarity. Hakimi had spent several days with his comrades in the club’s training center before his positive test. He ate with them, exercised with them, showered with them. It is therefore quite possible that other players have also been infected, possibly some before the game against Gladbach, and are now aware of the infection afterwards. What then?

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