Italian Football Journalist Fabrizio Biasin: “There’s At Least 9 Things Wrong With Inter’s European Exit”

Noted Italian football journalist and known Inter fan Fabrizio Biasin has shared his belief that there were nine things wrong with Inter’s exit from the UEFA Champions League earlier on this week.

Inter crashed out of the UEFA Champions League group stage for the third consecutive season and for the first time in their history they finished rock bottom of their group with them picking up just six points from 18.

As a result of finishing bottom of group B, Inter also find themselves out of European football entirely and now just have the Serie A and Coppa Italia to compete in between now and the end of the 2020/21 season.

He took to social media platform Facebook to express his thoughts and started with: “There are at least nine things wrong with ‘Intexit,’ Inter’s elimination from every European competition for the 2020-2021. season.”

Biasin then went on to list the nine things that he things went wrong for Inter between their match versus Shakhtar Donetsk and their performance in the group stage overall.

“1) You can’t be eliminated in a group with Real Madrid less competitive than they have been in the last ten years and two absolutely beatable teams.

“2) You can’t finish your campaign with only one win in six games, zero goals scored against the same team you beat 5-0 less than four months ago and then pick on the refs.

“3) You can’t handle the 90 minutes of a decisive game with the attitude of the person who treats the draw as an acceptable outcome all in all. Between 0-0 and defeat there was no difference, so waiting for the last 10 minutes of the match to put your player with greater class and experience (Eriksen) was unforgivable.

“4) You can’t show up for post-match duties with an aggressive attitude and send criticism back to the sender.

“5) You can’t think that a sentence like ‘Shakhtar distorted themselves’ can turn into an alibi, because on the contrary it becomes an indictment. The Ukrainians studied the match and surprised you, you didn’t find a remedy during the game.

“6) You cannot think that the world has it constantly in for you, above all you cannot shield yourself by playing the role of defender of the Nerazzurri colours from an alleged and marked ‘anti-Interism’. The truth, if anything, is that everyone kisses your ass when you win, everyone throws mud at you when you lose. This is how it happens to any great manager. The other truth is that the real defender of Interism doesn’t respond badly to a journalist with mirrored professionalism (Anna Billò) or a football monument (Fabio Capello), confronts him; vice versa creates image damage.

“7) You can’t not know that what until yesterday was an ‘attempt’ to win the championship, now becomes an ‘obligation.’ It’s the case, because, only a Scudetto victory will turn a currently failing season into a season of total and great ransom.

“8) You can’t think that trying to achieve this doesn’t go from two inevitable compromises. The first is taking a step towards your players, trying to exploit them not only from a physical but also a technical point of view. The second is looking for some inner peace that allows you to rejoice in a victory and digest a defeat. Turning victories and defeats into pretexts to always find some enemy is not the solution.

“9) Nobody wants to think that contract and salary are the only reasons why it’s mandatory to ‘stay together’. If you really believe in Inter go ahead, vice versa seek a deal of some kind. This is for the club, but also for yourself.”

He concluded by adding: “We could go on, but the fact is that I didn’t say that all these notes are aimed at Antonio Conte, an extraordinarily good manager who has everything to do well and only one true enemy, himself. If he realises it there’s still time to write history at this club, otherwise he’ll risk going down in  history as the one that left only because he couldn’t get it done. He doesn’t deserve it, especially not if Inter deserves it.”