On Saturday lunchtime, Inzaghi's men host the Gialloblù with the forecast in favour
The Serie A championship is preparing to experience the emotions of the last match of the first round and will award the platonic title of winter champion. Number one candidate to win it is league leaders Inter, who boast a two-point lead over Juventus, who will host Hellas Verona next Saturday, January 6, at lunchtime, at 12:30.
The forty-five points of the Nerazzurri and just fourteen of the Gialloblu are representative of a substantial technical difference between the two teams. But each match can have its own story and nothing is taken for granted and the draw from which Inzaghi's team came back at Marassi against Genoa stands out. And also, the draw against Real Sociedad and the misstep in the Italian Cup against Bologna are the result of the recent less than brilliant performances of the Lombard team which have slowed down the pace of a team aiming to win the second star. He will find on his path a Verona team fresh from a heavy home defeat against a Salernitana team who are still at the bottom but have significantly shortened the distance from the safety zone.
There are sixty-four previous matches in Serie A between Inter and Verona with the Nerazzurri comfortably ahead with thirty-nine wins against just four for the Gialloblu, who however have drawn twenty-one times. Inter have therefore won 61% of the matches played in the league against Hellas, the highest percentage of successes among the teams faced by the Nerazzurri at least forty times in the top flight.
The Inter that Inzaghi should propose includes the reuse of Lautaro Martinez, who will partner with Thuram, and Dimarco who are absent in Genoa. Calhanoglu should also be in the control room flanked by Barella and Mkhitaryan, with Darmian and Carlos Augusto acting on the external lanes. In defense, in front of Sommer, Acerbi will act in the center flanked by Pavard on the right and Bastoni on the left.
Baroni, who coaches Verona, will be able to recover Duda, after having served his suspension, but will have to do without Faraoni and Serdar. Doubts about the presence of Dawidowicz but Djuric will certainly be there as the team's reference point in attack and he will be supported to finalize the offensive game by Ngonge, Folorunsho and Lazovic.
A green light for the Nerazzurri's ambitions from BetFlag analysts who popularize Inter's 1 at 1,18, very far from the double-digit 2 of 14,70 and with the X multiplying by 7,20. Also in this circumstance the Argentine Lautaro Martinez, and top scorer in Serie A, is the undisputed leader of the special ranking of the possible first or last scorer of the match at 3,60, followed by Thuram at 5,00, Arnautovic 5,50, Calhanoglu at 6,00, Sanchez and Sarr at 6,25, Mkhitaryan at 7,50, Klaasen at 7,75, Akinsamiro at 8,25, Frattesi at 9,00, Sensi at 9,75 and then the others too.
