Inter defender Alessandro Bastoni feels that it has been essential for the team to all take individual responsibility to emerge from their early season crisis.
Speaking to Italian broadcaster DAZN ahead of this afternoon’s match against Salernitana, the 23-year-old stressed how the players had to stop putting the blame on one another and do a mea culpa regarding their own role in the poor form of the first few weeks of the campaign.
There was some visible frustration shown by Inter’s players on the pitch during some of their poor results to start the campaign.
This was not always just directed inwards, as the players also gestured frustratedly at teammates when things went wrong.
In Bastoni’s view, this was a key problem that had to be solved to get out from under the dark cloud that was hurting the team.
The 23-year-old explained the process that went on within the squad.
“We had some important conversations amongst ourselves as players after that initial period where perhaps we’d been complaining too mucj,” he said.
“Everyone wanted to blame everyone else, and instead we had to all do a mea culpa to get out of that moment.”
“It was very important, no one was rowing in a different direction,” Bastoni added, “we were very united, but the thing that was missing was knowing how to suffer the way we have always been able to.”