Cristian Chivu is overhauling the athletic preparation at Inter Milan from the Simone Inzaghi, focusing on greater intensity.
Today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews, report that the Romanian is demanding more, longer, and higher-intensity sessions.
Cristian Chivu is taking charge of his first preseason at Inter Milan. The players all arrived back in training this weekend.
And the first order of business for the 44-year-old coach is to get the players into physical shape.
And already, reports the Gazzetta, the differences are very evident compared to in the last few seasons under Simone Inzaghi.
The newspaper note that the intensity is considerably higher with Chivu and his athletic coach Stefano Rapetti.
Chivu Ratchets Up The Intensity In Training At Inter From Inzaghi Era
According to the Gazzetta, the training sessions are more frequent under Chivu than Inzaghi.
Furthermore, the Romanian has increased the length of the sessions. They now run around ninety minutes, the length of a match.
Under Inzaghi, the training sessions tended to run around an hour.
Furthermore, Chivu has the players in the gym more. Strength training is something the new coach sees as essential for preventing muscle injuries.
Ultimately, Chivu’s goal is to have the players at a higher athletic level than in the past.
The 44-year-old is keen to have fewer drop-offs in intensity in the second halves of matches than Inter have in recent seasons.
Furthermore, the Gazzetta note, Chivu also want to switch to a 3-4-2-1 formation.
And with three strikers or attacking midfielders on the pitch, there will be a greater need than ever for the entire team to cover a lot of ground and support the attack.
Oohh… you that is why most guys limped off by hour mark.
a little bit of psychology as well!! we need to work on the mentality. get back some of the winning mentality we sorely missed last year
Improving the fitness and stamina of the players is an absolute must! Too many times last season we looked dead after an hour, and this led to so many points being dropped, you have your reason for the Scudetto failure right there!!
What’s also encouraging is that you would assume that the players that will benefit from this the most are the younger players in the squad, so hopefully this further points to a younger starting 11 this season!!
Greater intensity for these old geezers = more injuries.
More training with the ball please. I do not want to see boring no possession football no more
Let’s hope he’s not gonna run the team down like Inzaghi did last season.
Yea exactly. I saw AC Milan playing against Liverpool and it was one of the worst form of football even if they won. I do not want that happening with Inter and we don’t need to with the quality of players we have.
It’s Allegri so it natural it’ll be the worst form of football. Milan will actually get points playing that against smaller teams that don’t have attacking quality but against big teams they’ll suffer.
You won’t see a defensive Inter; I can assure you that. The team uses the ball a lot in training and does Rondo throughout. I’ve been following the training sessions from the time Chivu got appointed. Inter are going to be exciting to watch next season. The kind of football Chivu wants is intense with a lot of counter pressing. Hope the team can handle it.
That’s assuring to hear cause Inters last game against Fluminense gave me doubts, but I’m going to assume it was due to fatigue issues.
you’ll need stamina and running to win ball back.
I’m glad that the manager is doing a lot more stamina training.
more importantly, this same level of training should also be applied at U23 squad.