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THE HAND OF STRAMA

MORATTI: "YOU'LL SEE HIS GAME."

WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN:

The group is committed to the ideas.

The wingers cut inside and sacrifice defensively.

And then those blitzes from the midfielders.

Four days, four more days that is, not many but not too few.  Stramaccioni is asking for just a little bit of time for the team to play with his style, to crystallize ideas and working methods so that the team can absorb them.  After five days of adaptation and mutual understanding, from today until Friday, at Pinetina, the team will fall in his laboratory.

The break of those two goals Sunday against Genoa, we didn't see the alchemy that Stramaccioni worked on for five days prior to the game.  The main reason was because of the first two goals allowed, 3-1 was sheer bad luck and also a fortunate penalty for the 3-2.  Those two goals put a brake on the team psychologically which deprived the team's safety and ease in finding a new way to play on the field.

Committed to ideas But in the first half against Genoa is defined as the best available evidence for the team of Stramaccioni.  It was seen primarily as a team that believed more: more from a mental point of view, more committed to the new representation not only from the coach's personality but also by his football ideas.

More Zarate than Forlan The desire to control matches by taking advantage of width of the game is perhaps the most concrete and important idea.  To do this, it is crucial to have a proper approach to Zarate who in the league had not started since the end of November (against Siena).  But the Argentinian seems to have confirmed his validity to the new coach who views him as a winger with more susceptibility to the role than Forlan. 

Blitz by the midfielders The two wide players in the midfield, in the game against Genoa, appeared to try looking for spaces ahead.  Cambiasso had a great chance to score the 2-0 with a header.  Then there is Guarin, whose DNA has a tendency to look for blitzes, one of which led him to the earned PK for the fifth goal.  Stramaccioni will insist much on this opportunity to get closer to the opponent's goal.

Dead-ball But something new was also seen at dead-ball situations.  The left-footed volley by Chivu that he couldn't keep it down in the second half was the end product of a proven design in training and the Romanian was freed beautifully.

WHAT YOU WILL SEE:

Major pushing from the fullbacks as well as the wingers.

Will play more freely waiting for the return of Sneijder to turn to this 4-3-1-2.

There are two factors, above all others, that Stramaccioni would like to accomplish before the end of the season.

Time and solid defense The first: with just five days of training available, not even one magician could probably do more.  The second: a solid defense but taking over the leadership of a team in a delicate situation such as Inter, it is natural to point to the first which is time.

Wings Inter-Genoa did not comfort Stramaccioni in anyway but we should also consider the essential randomness of the first two goals (out of four) conceded by the Nerazzurri.  In any case, Stramaccioni was forced to sacrifice, in part, at least one cornerstone of his football philosophy: the constant pushing by the fullbacks.  The fullbacks, as well as wingers, must constantly be pushing under Stramaccioni.  It was seen on Sunday (and you will continue to see it) more with Zanetti than with Chivu because the Romanian had the job of covering the first two in front of him in Cambiasso and Forlan.

With Wes the 4-3-1-2 But what yet to be seen is the 4-3-1-2 (or 4-3-2-1: depends on the movement of the second striker), the formation that his Primavera has interpreted successfully.  It will happen when Sneijder becomes available, the man (in Primavera it was Bessa) to whom Stramaccioni will give a lot of freedom to move across the offensive front, behind a central striker (before was Longo, now Milito or Pazzini) and a second striker (Livaja, now  Zarate or Forlan).

Source: Gazzetta dello Sport