Atalanta - Inter (16 Mar 25) [0-2]

[PHM1605]

1) Head to head is first criteria - we beat Atalanta and draw with Napoli
2) Head to head goal difference is next - we draw with Napoli
3) Overall goal difference is third - we beat Napoli
4) Overall goals scored - not that it would come to this but we would beat Napoli if they somehow levelled the goal difference.

Someone told me that these rules are outdated.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Mini league like a preseason friendly is the only way to do it

With 45min games against each other.

Birra Moretti Scudetto Showdown Final.

 

[CafeCordoba]

Someone told me that these rules are outdated.

Yeah, in case of equal points between teams for the 1st place and for the relegation spots.

Then it's a playoff match between the two teams. If more than two teams, then it's minitable to decide which are the two teams, like mentioned earlier in this thread.

 

[ElDuccio]

Im still dissapointed about how we have given away those points against Juve Milan Napoli and of course also Bologna Fiorentina. Of course no one is expecting to win every game, but for example the 4-4 against Juve was really uneccesary. We had a lot of injuries in the last times so i can accept a draw at Napoli, maybe even the Juve loss (but even there a draw was possible if we consider what Lautaro have missed). But on the other hand we are still first, +3, and still in 2 other competitions. While other teams are having nothing to play for. Now if everyone will be back after the breack, we have a good opportunity to maintain this first place and who knows what wil happen in Coppa and CL. Everything is still possible, this season final is going to be really interesting.

 

[wera]

All of the big teams have their own fuck ups, this season is really defined by that. I think Inter not beating Genoa at the start of the season was a bit shocking, but luckily for every misstep Inter players still held their heads up high. Our core - Lautaro, Barella, Bastoni - have been at Inter for both Scudetto runs, so they know that one fuck up won't ruin the whole season as long you are still close to challenge for the Scudetto.

Let's be serious for a second - with a few better choices in the summer transfer window we'd be winning a few of those derbies fo sho'. Would be +10, not just +3 at this point.

This is why this summer is exciting, if only a few players come, I do hope they are going to be like Augusto, not like Correa - if you catch my drift.

 

[vex]

What's most impressive for me is how we didn't completely fall apart after some of our lost points this season, mostly against our biggest rivals. Those were some painful results. That would have absolutely killed the lesser teams, but luckily we kept grinding, and it didn't affect us at all.

 

[ADRossi]

All of the big teams have their own fuck ups, this season is really defined by that. I think Inter not beating Genoa at the start of the season was a bit shocking, but luckily for every misstep Inter players still held their heads up high. Our core - Lautaro, Barella, Bastoni - have been at Inter for both Scudetto runs, so they know that one fuck up won't ruin the whole season as long you are still close to challenge for the Scudetto.

Let's be serious for a second - with a few better choices in the summer transfer window we'd be winning a few of those derbies fo sho'. Would be +10, not just +3 at this point.

This is why this summer is exciting, if only a few players come, I do hope they are going to be like Augusto, not like Correa - if you catch my drift.

Yeah. We have dropped major points to Napoli, Milan, and Juventus, and still are in first place. That tells you what kind of season this has been across the entire league. It's uber competitive and all these extra fixtures clearly impacted the big sides.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

I'll just say this while it's still fresh on my head - a few weeks ago, one thing that a lot of people, ourselves included, were saying is that our performances out there felt tired. The Genoa game looked like we were tired out there, Lord knows Napoli absolutely ran us off the field in Naples and I'll keep saying that it's actually a blessing that it took them as long to score as they did (as opposed to it being "we were five minutes from winning and blew it") since they would've won the game if they'd scored sooner. And all of that was true at the time.

But since the second half against Monza (last few minutes of the first half, really), we've shown the ability to up our energy levels when the situation demands it. And remember that Monza game was the middle game of a 3-games-in-7-days stretch, we were on the minimum rest going into that game. We looked good against Feyenoord, and yesterday was, circumstantially, our best performance of the season, going to Bergamo where Atalanta had everything at stake and we not only came out on top, but Atalanta created very little throughout the game. Did Retegui even play yesterday? Other than the demolition of Lazio, that was the away performance against a tough team we've been crying out for throughout the last 1.5 months, and better late than never.

Part of that might've been because of the int'l break we were entering into, something of an emptying of the gas tank for now. Part of it also makes me wonder just to what degree, as a team, we've been trying to ration our energy levels of late to begin with, given how grueling our schedule has been. At this time one year ago, our season was basically over. Double digit point lead, out of the CL and the Coppa, it was just one game a week and somewhere we were going to cross the magical points barrier to clinch the Scudetto. We don't have that "luxury" this year. We can't play every game with max energy. We have to manage ourselves.

Once this break ends, it's a sprint to the finish line in all comps. The average table position of our remaining opponents is 11th, which is harder than Napoli at 13.6 but it's hardly daunting, either. In some ways, the hardest part (all those away games) is over, in other ways the hardest part is about to begin. Bayern games are going to take a lot of focus and attention coming up, but we need to stay sharp against the mid-table teams we have coming up. It's taken a lot of hard work to finally get out in front of Napoli with a slight cushion, but it won't take much to undo it if we're not careful.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Yeah. We have dropped major points to Napoli, Milan, and Juventus, and still are in first place. That tells you what kind of season this has been across the entire league. It's uber competitive and all these extra fixtures clearly impacted the big sides.

Here's the 1st-9th place mini-table that nobody asked for:

	GP	W	D	L	Pts	Avg
Napoli	14	7	5	2	26	1.86
Inter	13	5	5	3	20	1.54
Fiorentina	12	6	1	5	19	1.58
Atalanta	11	5	3	3	18	1.64
Bologna	10	4	4	2	16	1.60
Juventus	13	3	7	3	16	1.23
Lazio	12	3	3	6	12	1.00
Roma	10	1	4	5	7	0.70
Milan	11	1	4	6	7	0.64

(Shut the hell up about that one Milan win.)

We're in 2nd place, but on a per average basis we're 5th out of 9 teams. Obviously these schedules haven't all been created equal, this is just to give a broad perspective. It's certainly a far cry from last season when, in the same 16 games we played last year, we were 12-4-0 (40 points, 2.5 points per game).

Napoli are +6 in these games compared to us, but we've made up for it because our record against bottom-half opponents is 100% since early in the season. Draws away to Genoa and Monza, we've won every game since then. Napoli were perfect there for a while too, but the recent slips to Como and Venezia are real blemishes.

 

[ElDuccio]

Once this break ends, it's a sprint to the finish line in all comps. The average table position of our remaining opponents is 11th, which is harder than Napoli at 13.6 but it's hardly daunting, either. In some ways, the hardest part (all those away games) is over, in other ways the hardest part is about to begin. Bayern games are going to take a lot of focus and attention coming up, but we need to stay sharp against the mid-table teams we have coming up. It's taken a lot of hard work to finally get out in front of Napoli with a slight cushion, but it won't take much to undo it if we're not careful.

the good thing is that Napoli is slowly falling appart, and even if not, it would suprise me if all of sudden they start winning all games. I was more worried about Atalanta but we have got distance now after yesterdays win. They have a lot of hard games too.

 

[CraigM]

Yeah, in case of equal points between teams for the 1st place and for the relegation spots.

Then it's a playoff match between the two teams. If more than two teams, then it's minitable to decide which are the two teams, like mentioned earlier in this thread.

When did these rules change? They had been place for a long, long time.

 

[CafeCordoba]

When did these rules change? They had been place for a long, long time.

I think it was after Milan's Scudetto.

 

[Devious]

Gotta miss Vecino-Gags partnership in games like these, where we mostly dominating the center of the field for having to kickoff too many times after conceding goals.

Never thought Id be seeing an Inter midfield force in the lifetime that can be easily compared to that one we’ve had during the treble era, gotta fall in love with that Calha-Barella-Mkhi combination, tbh whenever they’re starting and fit I care less about who’s starting upfront or even in the back line (though I feel much safer seeing Superman aka Acerbi in there).

Also good to see some familiar names still lurking around these parts of horny ass virgin Inter fans (looking at you wera).

 

[Alex de Large]

Man, what hurts the most is the last Milan derbi, 1-1 but deserved a win 0-5

 

[wera]

Also good to see some familiar names still lurking around these parts of horny ass virgin Inter fans (looking at you wera).

Who are you?

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Gotta miss Vecino-Gags partnership in games like these

Devious popping up out of nowhere and beginning a post writing about Gags and Vecino briefly left me wondering if I'd stumbled into conversation from 2019.

 

[armendsh]

Gotta miss Vecino-Gags partnership in games like these, where we mostly dominating the center of the field for having to kickoff too many times after conceding goals.

Never thought Id be seeing an Inter midfield force in the lifetime that can be easily compared to that one we’ve had during the treble era, gotta fall in love with that Calha-Barella-Mkhi combination, tbh whenever they’re starting and fit I care less about who’s starting upfront or even in the back line (though I feel much safer seeing Superman aka Acerbi in there).

Also good to see some familiar names still lurking around these parts of horny ass virgin Inter fans (looking at you wera).

For me only T.Motta and sneijder in the era of Mourinho was MAYBE better than these 3 technicaly
We got lucky on these 3
Btw im a cambiasso fan dont attack me , was talking about technical aspect only

T.Motta for me in DMF was like for you Acerbi that you feel safer. He was like that for me.
When he was playing and not injured i knew we could take on any team..
Same feeling with Recoba

 

[Alex de Large]

Motta better technically than Hakan or Barella? are you serious?

 

[YoramG]

Motta better technically than Hakan or Barella? are you serious?

Maybe I’m also in the minority, but as a player Motta was criminally, CRIMINALLY underrated. I agree that he had a better touch than both Barella and Hakan.

In my head, him being sold was the official start of the banter era.

 

[RickyMaravilla'sRightFoot]

Maybe I’m also in the minority, but as a player Motta was criminally, CRIMINALLY underrated. I agree that he had a better touch than both Barella and Hakan.

In my head, him being sold was the official start of the banter era.

Criminally underrated for sure— maybe a better touch than Hakan but definitely not Barella. Barella has eyes on the back of his head; it’s uncanny. Hakan better striker of the ball. Motta was just a very well-rounded, intelligent midfielder.