La Repubblica have taken a look at the approach Inter are taking in the lead up to their season finale with Empoli at San Siro this weekend.

“Inter has chosen seclusion and silence. No days off. No interviews and their participation in the Gentleman Award cancelled,” the report begins.

All attention is being directed toward the final game of the year, the game that will determine whether Inter make it to the Champions League or are pushed back outside of it, where they lived for a long time before Spalletti arrived.

“The coach, after the hammering suffered in Naples, is at work to defuse the latest psychodrama at the club. He chose a soft tone when talking to the locker room after the match.

He knows he is working in an emotional glasshouse. He does not want to break the integrity of the players after the severe 4-1 defeat inflicted on them by Carlo Ancelotti’s side.

“Spalletti must convince his team that they are stronger than Empoli.”