Inter are about to open the 18th round of the league with Salernitana.
Italian media described this battle as "GHOST MATCH".
What's the solution? Because this game should not have existed.
Before Salenitana was promoted to Serie A, Lazio boss Loti controlled a larger stake in the team.
Serie A does not allow one boss to control two teams, this kind of "boss one team plays boss two team" league, how to talk about fair competition?
So after the promotion of the team, Lotito entrusted the team to an agency and entrusted the agency to sell the team's shares. Serie A has also set a six-month deadline.
But in fact, it seems to be a blindfold. Half a year later, the team not only did not transfer the equity, but also did not even negotiate related to it. Some experts directly reprimanded: flickering, is just flickering.
According to the relevant regulations, after the mandatory period, Salenitana should be expelled from Serie A.
Inter Milan are Salernitana's first opponents after the "mandatory trading period", is the existence of this match reasonable and legitimate? Huge question mark.
Now that the matter is over, how should it be resolved? In series A, anything strange can happen.
At present, senior FA officials have three different tendencies. Some of them recommended the immediate expulsion of Salernitana, and all the results of the team's matches were nullified, and all were judged to be 0-3. But this is more beneficial for those teams that fail to score 3 points in the first round on Salernetana, which will affect the ranking of the relegation zone, and the opposition is very large.
Another group suggested that Salenitana finish the season. As for the possibility of manipulating the game and the spirit of fair play, it is good to turn a blind eye.
There is a third solution: let Salenitana play 19 rounds of the first round and then strip him of Serie A qualification. Once this is the case, then Serie A will have a very strange situation: 20 teams in the first half, only 19 teams in the second half, and 19.5 teams in the whole season. In short, whether the match between Chimi and Salenitana should be played or not is not clear from the legal point of view, so it is called "ghost game".
However, Inter also did not bother to fight for these and some, the team did not care about how the FA bosses would deal with this mess, but went to the away games as usual, and did not expect to "rely on the court to get 3 points" Such a thing happened.
That's not Inter character.
From a competitive point of view, Inter has two questions about this battle.
The first question is whether to start with Sanchez.
Dzeko was suspended in the last round, and this game will definitely start. Correa is currently recuperating from an injury and will certainly not play.
The other striker, Sanchez or Lautaro, is in doubt. Both were in excellent form in the last round, and both were reasonable, and Sport Milan believes that Inzaghi Jr. tends to use Sanchez because his dribbling, drilling and passing accuracy are more conducive to breaking the iron barrel formation.
Another question is the problem of shuffling.
In recent rounds, Inter's opponents (Salernitana, Turin, Bologna) are weak, after which Inter will open the devil's schedule, playing against Lazio, Atalanta, AC Milan, Napoli and other teams in a short period of time, as well as the Italian Super Cup against Juve and the Champions League quarter-final against Liverpool.
At present, Inter have two players who will be suspended if they take one more yellow card (Lautaro, Barrera) and 2 who will be suspended with two more yellow cards (Char khanoglu, Brozovic), so whether it is necessary to consider the shuffle issue in the process of playing weak teams in these three rounds needs to be considered as a whole.
With Salernitana as an opponent, Inter coach Inzaghi Jr. has some special memories.
The last time Salenitana played in Serie A was the distant 1997-98 season, the last round of that season, the team had to win to relegate, but only a 1-1 draw with Piacenza, sadly relegated.
That season, Inzaghi Jr. played for Piacenza, scoring 15 goals in 30 rounds and joining powerhouse Lazio. Salenitana's relegation battle was also a farewell performance by Inzaghi Jr. in Piacenza.
Now Salernitana is once again "in danger" and could be relegated again at any time. Will Inzaghi Jr. witness the relegation of this opponent again? This is also a point of view.