After yet another Inter victory in the Serie A, this time over Hellas Verona at the Stadio Marc’Antonio Bentegodi, Gazzetta Dello Sport broke down some statistics following the match in today’s paper edition of the newpaper.
“Inter has held the ball most of the time (meaning 62.7% possession in the first half, the number dropped to 55 in the second) but almost never got to any dangerous areas, mainly because of the slow movement of the ball. Borja, who was always shining in the distribution of the ball but later in the “all around” role of helping everyone in the final third, had also switched off. With Borja’s “expiration”, Icardi was unable to give a helping hand, not even a touch in the penalty area for Maurito” Gazzetta reports.
“Inter’s number 9 can play well, see the derby hat-trick and brace against Sampdoria, as wel as other games as well. The jump in quality will come even without scoring, he will need to make more of a contribution than the 26 touches last night (the player with the least amount of touches bar Verona’s Kean on 14). The overall quality of possession was affected so much that Inter seemed to lose control of the game” Gazzetta dello Sport concludes.
well, even barca who has 80% posesion in each games sometimes fail to score
Ah classic gazzzzzzetta. Always bashing on inter. 3 important things you forgot to mention. Firstly, we won the game. Secondly, icardi is mostly a poacher, and his other job is to create spaces for his teammates through off the ball movement, which he did on valero’s goal. And thirdly, read the first one again.
That’s funny!
Good points! Take note Spelletti. We need more players running into the box. Just look at Napoli and Roma someone is always making that run. Not just Icardi should be,although the first goal came because of this somewhat. Players should also make those runs other that when the ball is on in the wings. For example when just outside the 30 make those runs to create space.