5-2 to Roma Lautaro returns and Inter resume their march towards the Scudetto
Let's be frank: If you are not a fan of Inter, which scrambled Roma (5-2), sending Milan back to -9 and really mortgaging the Scudetto, it is not easy to return to the Italia championship after the national team's collapse. Certainly on Easter weekend, if the thought were not blasphemous, one would want to ask for a Resurrection for our football too, but by now we know that miracles of this kind are not on the agenda.
Neither in Heaven nor on Earth. Besides, three days would not be enough. Here it would already be a supernatural event to have a good president of the FIGC (elected at the assembly on 22 June) who can find a suitable coach capable of putting together a shred of a team for the Nations League scheduled between 25 September and 15 November.
Resurrection, on the other hand, can be spoken of for Inter (who had not won for four days) and especially for the (black) Azzurri who returned from the Zenica defeat. The break has undoubtedly reinvigorated Chivu's team, which, buoyed by the return of captain Lautaro (author of a peremptory double), not only demolished Roma, but also reaffirmed to the sceptics that Inter wants, very much wants, the Scudetto.
It was not to be taken for granted, especially after what happened in Bosnia. Instead, Lautaro, like a cyclone, swept away all fears, taking just a minute, well served by Thuram, to return to goal. The Giallorossi, dazed though they were, found the equaliser through Mancini, but a surgical slingshot from Calhanoglu before the break laid them low for good. In the second half there was no story. Inter were too superior, again netting with a header from Thuram, who then gave Lautaro the assist for the fourth goal. A celebration, that of the Nerazzurri, ended by Barella, also resurrected, author of the fifth goal.
What can I say? That Inter with the Argentine bomber is something else. A goal machine where even Thuram has rediscovered himself, both scoring and distributing assists to his team-mates and his captain. Another reborn is Dimarco, a distant relative of the faded stand-in seen in Zenica. Bastoni too, applauded loudly by the fans, seemed refreshed by the San Siro 'cure'. President Marotta himself defended him to the hilt. 'The lynching against him is a disgrace,' he said polemically, reopening an affair that would perhaps be better closed. On the whole, thanks also to Calhanoglu's vigorous push, Chivu's team erased any doubts about its condition ahead of the final rush.
