Article by Aurelian Botezatu – published on Sunday, June 22, 2025, 09:01 / Updated Sunday, June 22, 2025 09:01
The most important Italian newspapers, Gazzetta dello Sport and Corriere dello Sport, analyzed the evolution of Urawa Red Diamonds (2-1).
Inter trembled seriously with Urawa Red Diamonds (2-1) and managed to overturn the situation on the table only in the end. Lautaro Martinez (min. 78) equalized the score opened by Watanabe (11), and Carboni, in extensions (90+2), brought the first victory in the era “Cristi Chivu”.
If the Romanian technician was “delighted” to see that his players “try to give everything they have” and confessed that “it is nice to me how it was over”, the main specialized newspapers in the peninsula, Gazzetta Dello Sport and Corriere Dello Sport, are not at all delighted as the Nerazzurii under his command looks.
Gazzetta dello Sport gave 6 to Cristi Chivu
Especially Gazzetta dello Sport was very harsh in the analysis he did, talking about “an avoided shipwreck” and emphasizing that “The project of transformation of the Inter is far.
The team is so bad that you can't believe it, despite the changes in the band. However, he (no – Cristi Chivu) can keep the final pride ”, writes the quoted publication. By balanced all these aspects, the journalists of the pink everyday have given the grade 6 to the coach.
Of the players, the biggest notes were received by the authors of the goals, Lautaro Martinez and Carboni: 7. The smallest rating was 4 and was attributed to the new Luis Henrique, brought from Olympique Marseille: “I still have to understand in which ecosystem.
Corriere dello Sport: “An ugly and dirty victory”
Corriere dello Sport, in turn, titled “Chivu's return” and “Saint Valentin”, alluding to Carboni's surname, the scorer of Victoriei's goal. But here are the “kindness”.
The reporters on the spot wrote in the chronicle of the match that “it was an ugly and dirty victory” and that the “speed and ideas” had long lacked and that everything has reduced to “sterile maneuvers. Since the start whistle, it seemed a completely empty, both physical and mental team. And once again, the rescue came from a fixed phase, the corner after which Lautaro Martinez equalized ”. Chivu's note in Corriere dello Sport: 6.
