Champions League Inter focus on the essentials: ten points and a clean sheet

Everything that Inter is not in the league becomes prominent in the Champions League. A team that gets to the point. Spectacular? Certainly not. In victory over Arsenal there is a lot of trench, very few shots, the collective digging in to defend the fort, both before and after the goal of Calhanoglu on penalty.

It would be useful to mix taking the good things from both versions, national and European. The idea of ​​continuous possession, the result of Inzaghi's work, at the base of the last championship triumph and also of the two previous years, has remained intact without closing the defensive gaps that even the willing Venezia has managed to highlight. On the other hand, in the Champions League, not even the powerful Arsenal, in a crisis of results but still a battleship at the top of the Premier League, has broken the series of goalless games.

Manchester City, Red Star, Young Boys, now the gunners. No one, in four games, has forced Sommer to surrender. A further point of pride for Inzaghi, the defence at the Meazza presented De Vrij, on paper the vice-Acerbi, and Bisseck, who only started playing on the centre-left this year after an entire season on the opposite side.

The youngest of the group, that German boy taken from the Danish championship and brought to the stage of the Champions, was by far the best of all. He repelled every assault, with his head held high he placed himself as an insurmountable wall for Sakha, first of all, as well as for all the others dressed in red and white.

So Inzaghi achieved the feat he aspired to: win against Arsenal and rest many of the starters as much as possible, including Dimarco, Barella, Mkhitaryan e Thuram entered only in the second half. Acerbi, who should have been running his engine in preparation for Napoli, instead remained on the sidelines to warm up without setting foot on the pitch. For him and the other pillars that Inzaghi will call to order, there will be a fundamental obstacle already on Sunday. This time in the championship. Always looking for the right mix.