With AC Milan sweeping Lazio by four goals, the semi-finals of this season's Coppa Italia will open a two-legged Milan derby.
That's a good thing. No matter who wins or loses, the two extra derbies out of thin air will make the Inter Cup profit at least 10 million euros more. During the pandemic, this is very "thirst quenching".
But apparently, Inter don't have the heart to think about the cup games to be played next month, but will concentrate on the top league match against Napoli at the weekend.
In the second round of the league, Inter's schedule is "difficult before easy".
After playing Napoli, Inter have already played four opponents in the Top 7 of Serie A in the second round, and in the next 14 rounds of the league (counting the make-up matches), only Roma and Juve are left with two strong teams, and the other 12 opponents are weak teams in the middle and lower reaches.
This is Inter's comparative advantage over other competitors.
Therefore, against Napoli, Inter must fight with all their might, and the platoon should think about it carefully.
One of the most crucial questions that has been hotly speculated by the Italian media recently is: Who should start Lautaro and Sanchez?
In the Italian Cup Inter's victory over Roma, Sanchez scored a wonderful world wave and won a lot of applause.
After the game, Sanchez said that the more he played, the better he felt, and if he was only given 5-10 minutes, it would be difficult for him to change the game.
Sanchez is right, he's not a player who's good at playing the role of "super substitute".
There are three arguments.
First, since December, Sanchez has added up all fronts, with a total of eight single appearances of more than 45 minutes, and in these 8 games, he has scored in 6 games, which is extremely efficient. He also made five single appearances for less than 45 minutes, none of which he managed to win.
Second, to extend the evaluation time, this season only look at the league, Sanchez has made a total of 11 substitute appearances, 11 games he failed to score, only one assist (in The garbage time of Inter's 6-1 slaughter of Bologna, it does not mean much).
Third, looking back at Sanchez's entire Inter career, his starting efficiency is good, but whether in the Conte era or the Inzaghi Jr., whether as a third striker or a fourth striker, he has played as a substitute to change the game, and there are not many games for the savior of Qinwang, and there are several substitute appearances at the beginning of the game because of poor foot feeling, dribbling is broken, resulting in the team conceding goals.
Compared to Sanchez, Lautaro's talent as a "super substitute" is significantly higher.
This season, Lautaro has made a total of 5 substitute appearances, a small 100 minutes, he has scored two goals, and he is also at the top of the league's "super substitute" list.
Stretching the evaluation time, since joining Inter, Lautaro has made a total of 33 substitute appearances in the league, a total of 688 minutes, he scored 7 goals and assisted 1 time, averaging 98.3 minutes to score a goal, an average of 86 minutes to participate in a goal. He started 88 games, totaling 6957 minutes, scoring 41 goals and assisting 12 times, averaging one goal in 169.7 minutes and participating in one goal in 131.2 minutes. More than three years of actual combat proved that Lautaro's substitute appearances were better than the starters.
There are technical reasons for this.
Lautaro is a "intimidating striker" who takes on heavy tasks of oppression, pressing, and hand-to-hand combat. Let him start, he will spend too much physical strength and energy on fighting bayonets, so when there is a scoring opportunity, there is often a problem of insufficient physical strength and lack of precision.
Times expert Stonen once commented: Lautaro is a good player, but compared to Vlakhovic, Haaland, europe's "highest price", Lautaro price must be lower than a notch, because he has two problems. First of all, his goal scoring rate is not high. In addition, with confrontation as the biggest selling point, his endurance is actually very average, worse than some professional "agitation" strikers.
If Lautaro, as a "backhand", is tasked with consuming opponents by the starter, then Lautaro, who comes off the bench, is more of a threat to a "dying" defender.
At the moment, Lautaro is under a lot of pressure.
The main reason is that since December 22, Lautaro has not scored in the league for a month and a half, during this time he only scored in the Italian Super Cup (penalty), although Lautaro is still Inter's number one scorer, but you are one of Inter's current top salaried gentlemen (tax included, Lautaro has no tax), Lautaro has scored 12 goals in 30 games on all fronts this season (excluding 4 penalties, there are only 8 sports goals), such a list of statistics can not satisfy the public opinion.
Therefore, many media are now speculating, before Correa recovers from injury and Caseido integrates into Inter, can the Nerazzurri consider letting Sanchez start and Lautaro as a "backhand" in the strong dialogue (league top game, Champions League match against Liverpool)?
This requires an assessment by the coach.
In any case, Lautaro also needs to quickly cheer up, if it is really "demoted" from the main force to a substitute, this "psychological gap" is definitely not easy to digest. But strikers have to rely on success to draw controversy, which is the rule of the game. Lautaro's situation at Inter is certainly much higher than that of the Chilean veteran, who has a high probability of contract expiration at the end of the season, but it is difficult to jump out of this rule.
Therefore, a famous name like Biasin, through the social networking site to support Lautaro's way, hope that Inter 10 can give force to fight back questions. In any case, Inter has been digging his heart out for Lautaro over the years, whether it is to support him to the top or give him a high salary, he has done the utmost, the most critical moments of the season, he should give back.