Today Inter is looking to get the first win of this year’s Serie A against Bologna and this time Inter coach Luciano Spalletti is relying on Radja Nainggolan, the Belgian midfielder that has been out of the squad since July 18th and is looking forward to make his debut in the 2018/2019 championship after missing out on the first two rounds.
The Belgian is crucial for Spalletti and in his absence Spalletti has been forced to abandon the 4-2-3-1 and play with a 3-4-2-1. Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport explains: “Today everything is reset and Inter have to start again. Inter have only one point and have only scored twice Perisic and De Vrij and immediately got the disappointment from the crowd at Giuseppe Meazza. Spalletti will have the advantage of Nainggolan’s vertical play today as well as his power and his spirit for fighting, his pressing on the opponent’s register and his goals, since Icardi is yet to score and Lautaro Martinez who will start on the bench.
“Nainggolan will be very important in a key role offensively together with Perisic, behind Icardi in a 3-4-2-1, Radja can create a lot of damage. With Spalletti on the bench, Nainggolan has scored 20 of his 33 goals as a Roma player (one every 289′ with Spalletti, one every 839′ without). And he also likes to play against Bologna, when he was in Cagliari his first Serie A goal came against Bologna, and it was at Studio Dall’Ara that he scored his first goal in the Roma jersey. This is exactly what Inter needs from him” the Gazzetta explains