For me it depends on the lineup.
If we gonna start rr, biglia, borini, samu it could turn real ugly.
This is not good enough.The probabline line up:
Donnarumma
Conti - Musacchio - Romagnoli - Rodriguez
Kessie - Biglia - Calhanoglu
Suso - Rebic
Piatek
Watch out for:
GP reverting back to 4-3-3, a formation the team have experience with.
Paqueta starting, although the chances are slim to none.
The probabline line up:
Donnarumma
Conti - Musacchio - Romagnoli - Rodriguez
Kessie - Biglia - Calhanoglu
Suso - Rebic
Piatek
Watch out for:
GP reverting back to 4-3-3, a formation the team have experience with.
Paqueta starting, although the chances are slim to none.
Borini at right back?
I think it will almost certainly be a 433 like the second half at Verona, with Rebic on the left. No way we play ultra-narrow against this Inter. This would actually be a great game to play Leao, maybe at the hour mark while asking Piatek to press their central CB intensely all game and making sure there's no easy pass to their central midfield. Leao on the break with Rebic is a lot more threatening than Piatek, especially late in the game.
We'll have to defend in a 4141 block with Rebic on the left and Suso on the right, Gattuso style. Anything else is suicide. Maybe the return fixture we can try to play our game and try to dominate the midfield and press high, but now is not the time. Play it safe Giampaolo and build on Gattuso for now.
Conti needs to grab this chance. Huge opportunity for him. With Kessie and hopefully Suso close by as an outball he should have some help.
Pressing, blocking, defending are all fine when we don't have possession, but we need solutions when we do get possession. This is the home derby after all.
Piatek dropping deep for the ball is something I still hope to see. If they continue to play 3-4-2-1, I consider the 2 guys who'd sit back in the midfield Inter's weakest link, whether that's Broz-Barella or Broz-Gagliardini. If Piatek can move cleverly in that annoying position between the CBs and these two midfielders (almost like Vecino did against Milan last year), we will get openings for Hakan, Rebic and Suso to move forward.
It's going to be a very interesting game tactically. The key battle I think will be between Rebic and Candreva. Rebic can persistently find space behind Candreva and I don't think Godin is well suited to defend this. If Candreva over commits and tries to press Rodriguez, then Rebic will find a lot of space on the left side. Rodriguez is pretty press resistance, for all his faults. So his job would be to resist Candreva and somehow find the ball, probably through Bennacer to Rebic who would then be free. On the other side I think the strategy would be to let Suso and their fear of him to force Asamoah to be dragged inside, which would give space for Conti to attack on the outside. So Rodriguez will mostly stay very very deep all the time, also to be the spare man so Lukaku and Lautaro don't find themsleves 2v2. Conti will only attack when there's space outside Suso, and then it becomes a race between him and Asamoah. So we attack wide with Rebic and Conti, not Rodriguez. Candreva needs to keep an eye on Rebic while also press Rodriguez, so his job is very difficult. Hope he tires himself
Well, when we attack it will be all Suso, no? No other way. Cut inside and hope to find Rebic or Piatek.
I don't see GP starting both Conti and Theo, RR has been solid so he'll surely start. Conti or Borini is probably a toss-up at the moment.
Definitely need Bennacer for the additional work rate and to move the ball forward fast and Rebic's speed, power and directness will be invaluable.
Hopefully the extra few days to prepare pay off.
------------Gigio------------
Conti---Musa------Romag----Theo
------Kessie---------Bennacer------
Suso-------Paqueta---------Rebic
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What do u think about this 4-2-3-1?
---------Gigio---------
Conti---Musa---Romag----Theo
---------Bennacer-------------
Suso----Hakan---Paqueta----Rebic
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Or this 4-1-4-1?