La Repubblica highlights that Inter and Simone Inzaghi are using José Mourinho’s ‘noise of enemies’ to keep the team united in the key moment of the season.
The Nerazzurri are in contention for a top-four finish in Serie A and have qualified for the Champions League and Coppa Italia semi-finals.
Their coach Inzaghi has been under severe pressure after suffering 11 defeats in 31 Serie A matches and La Repubblica highlights how the Italian tactician is using a well-known method at the Pinetina to unite the team during the last month of action.
The Nerazzurri ‘claim that occult forces are plotting against the club,’ explains Franco Vanni reporting the latest quotes from the coach and Inter defender D’Ambrosio.
Last Sunday, after their first win in five league matches, the experienced centre-back said: “I have to say Inter is not always protected enough, from all points of view. I’ve been here for 10 years and I’ve seen every sort of thing.
“There are always reasons to attack the club, the team and the coach.”
Both Inzaghi and Marotta claimed something similar in their latest interviews. “I know from where some criticism comes, and I am not concerned about them,” said Inzaghi in Empoli on Sunday.
“Clearly, coaches are exposed to criticism but are accustomed as professionals, so they have to understand where the criticism comes from,” argued Marotta before Inter-Monza on April 15.
Inzaghi is ‘using this situation to motivate the team,’ wrote Repubblica journalist Vanni.
‘United against an invisible enemy’ ahead of key games in Champions League, Coppa Italia and Serie A.
This is the same strategy used by Inzaghi’s predecessors Mourinho and Antonio Conte.
The Special One, who won the treble in 2010, spoke about the ‘noise of enemies’ in his last season at the club, in one of his most iconic press conferences as an Inter coach.
yet to see if this works on the current crop of playes