On Olympic medal Sunday, Inter also sweeps away Sassuolo (5-0), Juve-Lazio 2-2
Inter overwhelming in the championship, ready to fight for the Scudetto between records and impressive numbers
The thunderous cascade of medals (9) from the Winter Games, with all those magnificent personal stories behind each feat, as well as conveying a contagious joy, makes this long football weekend a little smaller, certainly not sensational if not for the thunderous 5-0 with which Inter beat a trembling Sassuolo, unable to stop a wave, the Nerazzurri's, too powerful for the Emilian team, who were also coming from two convincing consecutive victories.
A wave that sweeps away all that it encounters: 12 useful results in a row, with 11 victories and one draw are Inter's visiting card, with a new lead of +8 over AC Milan, who will have to wait until 18 February to recover the famous match against Como, which, as you will remember, some thinking phenomenon would have liked to have played in Australia, at 40 degrees, because by now, the game of football, as demonstrated by the continuous protests against refereeing decisions, has become a concentration of absurd rules that complicate a game that was beautiful and fascinating precisely because it was simple and immediate.
But never mind... But then don't ask us why we are so excited about the exploits of Sofia Goggia, Federica Brignone, Francesca Lollobrigida, Giovanni Franzoni, Riccardo Lorello and all the others who are happy and proud even when they don't win or finish third or fourth. Wonderful guys who make a thousand sacrifices, even risking their skins (as happened to Lindsey Vonn) but without making us weigh it down as they unfortunately do, with the usual remote-controlled interviews ("The coach will decide it... "Now we have to think about working..." "The team comes first..." ) the stars and lesser stars of football.
Back to the bombshell, i.e. Inter, it has to be said that this Inter is a spectacle: it wins, it scores goals in bursts, it frightens its opponents and entertains its fans. What more can one ask of it? Fingers crossed that it wins the Scudetto or even that most prestigious trophy we all know.
Let's say, however, that at least for the title the signs are good: in fact, everyone contributed to this 'manita', a goal cooperative: Bisseck, Thuram, Akanji, Luis Henrique and captain Lautaro, who reached 171 goals in Nerazzurri like Boninsegna. Ahead of him only Meazza and Altobelli. But the one who amazes is Dimarco, who churns out assists in bursts: Dimarco has been involved in three goals out of five. Thirteen winning passes in the season. Better than many fantasists. With AC Milan at +8 (at least until 18 February), Napoli at +9, even the numbers begin to give reason to the party of optimists. Also because Milan (waiting for the derby on 8th March) do not have the firepower of their cousins. While Napoli, with their infirmary as crowded as an emergency room, are already working miracles to stay in their wake. Behind is Conte's grit, but how far can he go? The only note, on which that foxy Allegri is working, is that it will come in the spring. Inter is now running at full speed. It is a perfect mechanism, agreed. But doesn't it run the risk, like certain riders in the Giro d'Italia, of going up in flames in the first two weeks only to burst into flames in the last few climbs? Inter's recent record still stings, but Chivu, who is not lacking in intelligence, must surely be thinking about it. In the meantime, he says: "We're not perfect, but we're hungry..."



