The eccentricity of the alteration that Roberto Mancini got along with the team is reinforced by history. From any shore, look at her. If it’s from Milan, then please: before, in the championship Euro-tournament draws, Inter won all four matches at the San Siro against German clubs. If it’s from Munich, it’s even more impressive: it ingloriously ended all six of Bavaria’s last visits to clubs from the Apennines. And here all of a sudden 0: 2. Moreover, not through some kind of an opportunity-anomaly, which was happy for the guests, but in perfect agreement with the logic of events. Both halves remained under reliable control. If not Felix Magath and his field players, then Oliver Kahn at least. In order not to return to the Bavarian goalkeeper, we mention his solo number in each half, when in dueling with virtually no outsiders, Titan “ate” Ibrahimovic and Crespo, remaining “dry” in the second match of the League in a row.
It’s worth recalling these episodes because they probably exhaust the list of remembered host attacks. The general impression of the offensive actions of Inter fits into the phrase “permanent offside”. In equal measures, it can be perceived both as an image and as a reality. Milan forwards for a couple fell into the “offside” 8 (!) Times, Munich - not a single one. In the appendix to the result, this is quite suitable as an illustration of the tactical advantage of the winners. In the same context, the proportion of the time controlling the ball is easily integrated. She throughout the game steadfastly stayed close to the final 46:54 in favor of the guests. This (again in the appendix to the account) will also say a lot. By the way, a kind of apotheosis of the domination of “Bavaria” symbolically became its first scoring attack. Pizarro’s jerk into the penalty area and “off the beat” to get ahead of Grosso and Julio Cesar were preceded by 16 assists performed by the Munich team in a positional draw in the wrong half! A dozen minutes before the final whistle, it looked like a uniform pushing for the leader of Serie A. By that time, it seemed, he had already lost faith in his ability to open an account for goals in the group stage.
It would be foolish to dispute the significance of what “Inter” missed after a half-time game in the minority. However, Ibrahimovic’s rudeness against Schweinsteiger, which led to the Swede’s second “mustard”, was even more stupid. Here, after all, everything is also natural: without playing an hour, the remote striker made 5 fouls (out of 16 total for the team!), Without earning a single one. By the way, 4 more violations on the account of Grosso - his Englishman Steve Bennett carried out of the field in the 85th minute, without even exchanging for yellow: for a boorish elbow strike Sagnola. Eight of the Milanese and completely abandoned the play. As soon as Podolski appeared from the bench, he scored the second goal with a cool mockery: he robbed Cordoba in the center of the field, won the race to the free kick, and he also “nine” aimed for the strike.
... Everything that is so bad for Inter is even worse for Spartak. They are now enemies in misfortune. Moreover, it is the Muscovites who will hit the nearest two-leg bunch under the hot hand of an opponent injured by zeros not only in the points graph, but even scored goals. Spartacists should not count on weakening the composition of others by disqualifications. Normal changers Ibrahimovic and Grosso Mancini there. On the scales of the indispensability of these two, Vieira will surely draw one who missed the Milan match for the same card reason. And in choosing the explanations for Inter's home failure, this lack of a host-opornik (after all, Cambiasso is also injured) begs for the main reasons, while obvious psychological failures and tactical flaws appear to be consequences. The Bavarian bunch, beyond the years of the savvy Ottl and the working van Bommel, easily pressed Dakur, who opposed them, to the lawn alone.
Against Spartak, Vieira will surely come out. And perhaps then it will also explain a lot. Although I do not want to ...
Sergey NOVIKOV
INTER Italy - BAVARIA Germany - 0: 2 (0: 0)
Goals: Pizarro, 81 (0: 1), Podolsky, 90 + 1 (0: 2)
Inter: Julio Cesar, Micon, Ivan Cordoba, Materazzi, Grosso, Javier Zanetti, Dakur, Figo (Mariano Gonzalez, 67), Stankovic (Solari, 77), Ibrahimovic, Crespo (Adriano, 77)
Bavaria: Caen, Sagnol, van Buyten, Lusio, Lam, Salihamijić (Scholl, 70), Ottl, van Bommel, Schweinsteiger, Mackay (Santa Cruz, 82), Claudio Pizarro (Podolski, 89)
Warnings: Ottl, 35; Sagnol, 40, Ibrahimovic, 41, Materazzi, 54, Scholl, 76
Removal: Ibrahimovic, 58, Grosso, 85
Judge: S. Bennett (England)