Winning a championship with three days to spareas he did yesterday Inter beating Parmacancels any discussion not only on which was the best team from August to May, but also on which was the strongest team at the start. It is a distinction, the good/strong one, that we have often heard in recent years, for example last season when Inter itself was accused – especially by its fans – of having squandered its superiority in the league for the ambition of also chasing the Champions League.
Having said that, as I see it, big clubs must have ambition in their DNA, and therefore I don’t think that Inter made a mistake last year, it is true that Napoli were very good at taking advantage of the opportunity by crossing the finish line first on the last day. However, the first season of was born from that unhappy sprint Cristian Chivu on the Nerazzurri bench, and this scudetto number 21, as beautiful as a revenge and as solid as a construction step by step. After the first 12 games, Inter were fourth in the table, three points behind leaders Roma, and had lost four times: since then, in the following 23 rounds which were needed to reach the arithmetic certainty of the scudetto, Inter have collected 58 points, thirteen more than Napoli and Juve, sixteen than Milan and Atalanta. If we turn to judge it now, what we have reported from December onwards was a triumphal march, concluded with arms raised. Chivu signed it, almost a debutant, sincere compliments to him.
A championship with three rounds to spare is also an explicit one indictment against opponentsunable to respond to Inter’s defeat and still engaged in a fight for the other three places in the next Champions League which – as Chivu sarcastically underlined – soon became the vaunted objective to define the season as profitable. The draw in Como allows Napoli to consider the finish line close, and this championship finale with almost the entire squad available is proving to be very instructive for Conte, always assuming that the famous conversation with De Laurentiis produces another white smoke. Under Napoli, This evening’s Roma-Fiorentina has become a very important match because Gasperini has the chance to ignite the final sprint, lifting himself to just one point behind Juve and three from Milan. There is no doubt that the home draw against Verona, already relegated, but commendably combative, contains some unlucky circumstances for Juve: equally, May is a month in which alibis no longer hold up. And the calendar that looked good has already revealed a trap. Thanks to the unexpected draw in Turin, Milan he survived the tough knockout of Sassuolo, maintaining third place, but it is now clear that the team is dissolving in Allegri’s handsall that remains is the strategy of keeping calm and counting the minutes until the end of the tournament. Milan is no longer standing, he has scored just one goal in his last five games, his attackers have not scored for two months and an injury has caused Modric’s mastery to fade. Tonight Roma could become a nightmare.
04 May 2026
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