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Inter change coach the biggest possible 360-degree scan to return the Nerazzurri to the era of back four?

Inter are now in a dilemma of "black clouds pressing the city".

The North Stand issued a threat that "patience runs out and everyone will pay if they fail to achieve their goals".

For two consecutive days, Marotta, Osilio and others were overseeing the army at the base.

All this shows that Inter, who have lost consecutive league games, are in "extraordinary times".

Sky and Gazzetta dello Sport confirmed that Inzaghi Jr. still intends to continue the "goalkeeper rotation", bringing Handanovic, who wants to renew his contract but is reluctant to take a significant salary cut.

This is clearly based on "non-competitive reasons".

It is foreseeable that if the result of the game is unfavorable, this kind of decision that makes public opinion in an uproar will be one of the crimes of the manager summarized by the media. Inter are in dire need of changes from their coaches to help them get on track, but can coaches still play new tricks? Or can you just bite the bullet and stick to the original set? This is a problem.

"Milano Sport newspaper" recently reported on the possible change of Inter's manager, there is a rolling series.

If the losing streak continues, Inter will have to change coaches as the team cannot afford to lose a top-four finish, and in the current situation, there is no other way to save themselves than to sacrifice the coach.

Even if Inter can bounce back in the face of adversity and eventually win the fourth, it is difficult to say whether Inzaghi Jr. will continue to coach next season.

The media opinion remains unchanged: if there is a change of manager at the end of the season, Marotta wants De Zelby the most. If Inter are forced to change coaches this season, the most likely person to coach is reserve coach Zivo.

De Zelby's case, involving liquidated damages, is very variable, and it is too early to talk about it.

Zivo is in a different situation, ready to take over the team – his agent revealed a few days ago that some "minor league" teams had invited him as manager, but he declined, not because he didn't want to coach the senior team, but because he wanted to start with Italy.

Some journalists and celebrities (such as Petrescu, Lobonte) who have good personal friends with Zivo have also begun to hype the "new Stella Macioni".

Gazzetta dello Sport introduces Zivo's qualities. Zivo has said many times that his coaching thinking is greatly influenced by Mancini and Mourinho, which makes him different from Inzaghi Jr. in many ways, concentrated on four points.

One is "humility". Unlike Inzaghi Jr., who likes to list his results at Inter several times at press conferences, Zivo has also won the title, but he has expressed humility in 8 of his 10 interviews, not because he lacks self-confidence, but because he is influenced by Jose Mourinho and believes that success comes from "people can never be satisfied with what has been achieved".

The second is "tough". Unlike Inzaghi Jr., who can speak well, Zivo speaks little, both to his players and to journalists. Some people always think that "Zivo is soft" because people who always smile shyly will give this impression. But in fact, Zivo is a very "hard" man, he suffered a broken skull and broken bone in the brain as a player, and he returned to the pitch in a few months regardless of the risk of his life. After teaching, he was not short of decisiveness against disobedient players.

The third is "mobilization and communication". Zivo is good at using words to inspire the team before the vicious battle and hard battle, such as last season's Inter reserve team was not the strongest in the league, not widely favored, but successfully won the championship, because Zivo a few words instigated, the players "roared" forward.

The fourth is "like the four defenders". Since teaching, Zivo's most commonly used formations are 442 diamond midfielders and 433. In addition, 4231 and 4321 are also used more. In short, Zivo led Inter's youth teams at all levels to play a total of 119 league, European and cup matches, and the number of games using a four-back formation accounted for nearly 80%.

When Conte was in charge of Inter, he issued a military order requiring Inter youth teams at all levels to play 352, so that the senior team could directly draw from the echelon. However, after this military order was held for a while, it was not done, and the stressed Conte could not care about the youth team. But this incident led Zivo to study the 352 as well.

Zivo was brought to Inter by Mancini, and he was also greatly influenced by Mancini and often took the initiative to change formations. At the beginning of this season, Inter's reserve team was deep in the relegation zone due to injuries and other reasons, Zivo continued to explore the 352, 4321, 4312, 3421 and other formations, and finally finalized 433 as the main formation, and now Inter has returned to the middle of the table. Change the formation and become the team's reliance to get out of the crisis.

Zivo has managed 119 games in Inter's echelon, 62 wins, 29 draws and 28 defeats, averaging 1.81 points per game, a win rate of 52%, not too good. However, the task of the youth team is to "seek quality" rather than "win", and Zivo has done a good job in this regard - he can always brush up on the stats of talented players such as Satriano last season, Casadei last season, and Pio Esposito this season.

He doesn't travel to the pool, so he has the trust of Inter.

Will the treble winner really become Inter's firefighting coach? Can he contribute to Inter's transformation? Wait and see.

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