ORIGINAL TITLE: Inter recast steel defense! The Blue and Blacks have only conceded 4 goals in their last 8 games, recovering their biggest weapon in the title race
The last time Inter Milan was able to top the Serie A table in the second half of the season was 10 years ago. After defeating Lazio at home in the 22nd round of Serie A, the Blue and Blacks overtook their city rivals Milan by one point and became the rightful leader of Serie A this season. Inter Milan, who are now left with only a single Serie A campaign, have a clear goal, which is to dominate the Apennine Peninsula once again after a long gap of 11 years.
Judging from the current environment of the Blue and Blacks, as well as the predictions of major foreign media, Inter Milan is indeed the most favorable contender for the Serie A title this season. Especially in 2021, when the team recast last season's steel defense, the blue and black army more and more with the championship.
Starting from the 18th round of Serie A, when they beat their rivals Juventus 2-0 at home, the Blue and Blacks have only conceded 4 goals in 8 matches in all competitions recently. Inter Milan's four goals, in addition to the Cup of Italy quarter-finals, by Ibe scored a sports goal, the blue and black army the rest of the three goals, not the opponent to create opportunities to score, are because of the Inter itself gift. Italy Cup semi-final first round, Inter Milan home 1-2 defeat Juve, this is the blue and black army nearly a month since, single game lost the most goals of the game. And these two goals, for Inter Milan are very helpless, first to Juve penalty kicks, followed by Bastoni and Handa between the lack of tacit understanding, giving C Luo hit the good opportunity of the empty goal. As for the last round of Serie A against Lazio, if not for the Blue Eagles fortunate free kick line break, Handanovic will realize five consecutive rounds of the league shutout opponents. With Inter's defense finally stabilizing, it can be said that the Blue and Blacks have recovered the biggest weapon in the title race when the team's best defense from last season, which caused headaches to all opponents, returns.
launch in full
As the three most important center backs in Inter's defense, De Vry has recovered his style of being the best defender in Serie A last season, and his protection and clearing in the center of the field is still the highest level of Serie A defenders. As for the young Bastoni, with the increasing experience in the game, his role in the backline is more and more important, especially his accurate long passes from the backfield, which has become one of the means of launching Inter's daily offense. The most exciting thing for Inter fans is still the return of the king of Szkriniar.
After last season's bottleneck, and even facing the possibility of leaving before the start of the season, when Škriniar gradually adapted to Conte's three-back system, the Slovakian center back, rediscovered the style of Serie A's top defenders. So far this season, Škriniar is the Serie A match with the opponent striker one-on-one one-on-one, break the ball success rate of the second highest defenders, the average success rate of 68.4%.
In addition to the three center backs to find the state, there is another person's performance can not be ignored, he is now the captain of the Inter Handanovic. Undeniably, 36-year-old Handanovic has entered a career downturn, the first half of the season, Handan all kinds of "send" rivals into the goal of the picture is commonplace, a time about Handan become the biggest black hole in the questioning of the country's biggest black hole, but also endless. But the good thing is that with the depth of the game, the old comrade also finally found the state, from nearly a month and a half of Handanovic in the goal line performance, his conscientious play, or to afford that heavy responsibility on his arm.
So far this season, Inter Milan has been the most aggressive team in Serie A. With 54 goals in the first 22 rounds, the Blue and Blacks have scored the second most goals in the league among the top five leagues. Now with the team recreating last season's steel defense, the Blue and Blacks, who are good at both offense and defense, are indeed capable of launching a strong attack towards the 19th Serie A trophy in the team's history!
