Inter coach Luciano Spalletti has decided to call-up 21 players for the Nerazzurri’s Serie A clash tomorrow at 15.00 CET against Sassuolo at the Mapei Stadium.
Uruguayan international midfielder Matias Vecino has not been called due to picking up his fifth yellow card of the season last week against Udinese and is therefore suspended but Joao Mario has recovered from his tonsilitis and has been called up.
Aside from that it is a full Inter squad that Spalletti has at his disposal which is why no real surprises can be found amongst the twentyone Nerazzurri players called up by the former Roma tactician in order to get back to winning ways.
Goalkeepers: 1 Samir Handanovic, 27 Daniele Padelli, 46 Tommaso Berni;
Defenders: 7 Joao Cancelo, 13 Andrea Ranocchia, 21 Davide Santon, 25 Joao Miranda, 29 Henrique Dalbert, 33 Danilo D’Ambrosio, 37 Milan Skriniar, 55 Yuto Nagatomo;
Midfielders: 5 Roberto Gagliardini, 10 Joao Mario, 20 Borja Valero, 77 Marcelo Brozovic;
Attackers: 9 Mauro Icardi, 17 Yann Karamoh, 23 Eder, 44 Ivan Perisic, 87 Antonio Candreva, 99 Andrea Pinamonti.
Today Gazzetta predicts the most predictable, plain XI for Sassuolo :
Only Gaglia for Vecino enforced change , the rest would be the same as Udinese , they say..
But Gazzetta, till yesterday, was instead predicting a Spalletti who will try to find more alternatives as starters . to make the whole squad more ready to absorb the impact of the next , intense “Iron Cycle ” (that’s how they called it ) Milan-Lazio -Fiore – Roma all within less than two weeks …
They thought that at least TWO between Naga , Cancelo as a winger fot either Candreva or Perisic and JM would have started versus Sassuolo.
Now..
not anymore ,they say it’s going to be simply :
Handa.
D’ambro,Skri, Mira , Santon.
Gaglia , Valero.
Candreva , Brozo, Peri.
Icardi.
Please give Joao Mario game time. He’ll shine.
I think so too.
Look at the “all quality but 0 defensive” midfield some people was so worried about , that we used against Chievo:
Valero-JM.
Brozo.
Best Inter ‘s game of the season.