Italian journalist Sandro Sabatini feels that Inter should have gone with Edin Dzeko in attack in their Serie A clash with AC Milan rather than starting Joaquin Correa alongside Lautaro Martinez.
Speaking to Italian broadcaster SportMediaset, Sabatini gave the view that the second half changes that improved the Nerazzurri suggested that coach Simone Inzaghi had in fact gotten it wrong with his starting selections.
Correa was handed the start alongside Lautaro Martinez in attack against the Rossoneri, but the Argentine pair struggled to dovetail effectively, with neither reliably holding up the ball or finding a foothold against the Milan backline.
Dzeko came on and, apart from giving the team hope with his goal for 3-2, had a broadly effective game using his physicality and technical ability to keep the team higher up the pitch when he got on the ball, leading to an overall improvement from a performance that had gone very flat before he came on.
“I would have liked to have seen Inter start with Dzeko instead of Correa,” Sabatini suggested, “maybe then we would have seen them play the whole match the way that they did in the first twenty minutes.”
“There still seems to be some confusion with Inzaghi’s starting decisions,” he went on. “When I see Mkhitaryan come on and he looks like virtually their brightest player, I say play him from the start.”
