Italian journalist Luigi Garlando feels that Inter looked like a team who are back in a calm mood in their Serie A victory over Salernitana yesterday afternoon.
Writing about the match in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, Garlando noted that the team finally looked like the stress and anxiety that characterized their start to the campaign was behind them.
Inter had piled the pressure on themselves early on in the season, with consecutive losses to Udinese and Roma in Serie A perhaps generating the most negative mood that the team has experienced under Simone Inzaghi.
There was therefore an intense feeling of pressure as the Nerazzurri took to the pitch at the San Siro against Barcelona in the Champions League.
A victory in that match injected major enthusiasm, but the pressure didn’t really dissipated as the team looked to get back to winning ways in the league against Sassuolo, and then follow up against Barcelona at the Camp Nou.
Yesterday against Salernitana, by contrast, the feeling was that the team had done the work to put the toughest parts of their crisis behind them, and they could finally play their game in a relaxed manner.
“Inter’s 2-0 win over Salernitana had the feeling of calm seas after a storm,” Garlando writes.
“Inter hadn’t lined up two Serie A wins since August,” he notes, “for the first time this season they lined up four useful results, including the Champions League.”
“Now they’re navigating downstream once again.”
He notes that “The goals from Lautaro and Barella provide continuity from their night at the Camp Nou.”
