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They won their last Serie A game like six weeks ago, but for some reason they beat Benfica in the first leg. This is odd and I think it is quite some time ago that I saw a team performing so bad, but still being in the champions league and still top five in the Serie A. In the last five games there is only one team that was as bad as Inter and that was Lecce. Additionally they are still in the Coppa as well and the result wasn't too bad in Turin either!
Now they are losing game after game but perform decently in the other competitions. It must be a touch decision for the management to stick to Inzaghi, but what are you going to do when you can still win two titles but play bad in the league? You can't even sack him...
But they should at least give him a warning that they are expecting better things from him in the future, right? If he is not warned, I believe he will not probably be serious about his approach. It is not acceptable, the way they are performing in league competitions.
Both Milan teams (AC Milan and Inter Milan) are falling behind two Rome teams (Lazio and Roma) and their gaps with Lazio at the second position becomes bigger in last several weeks. AS Roma just have a big win against Udinese that helps them to increase a gap with AC Milan to 3 points. I don't say it is a safe gap for AS Roma but at least, they can hold their third position at least one more week day without any risk of take over from AC Milan.
Not only Inter Milan but also Juventus are very likely to lose their chance to participate in top four. Juventus hope is over and they will have to focus on Europa League. They won Benfica 1 - 0 in Turin and will have to get a draw at least in Portugal to join semi final stage of Europa League.
There has been a big turn of events in this league. The expected results are not being delivered by the teams. The top teams are losing matches one after another. I really have no idea how that table is going to look at the end of the season. But one thing I really want to see is Juventus finishing in the top four.
Inter is just not good right now. The inconsistency is absolutely unbelievable. They have not performed well at all in Serie A. In the last five matches, they do not have a single win. This is not going to get them to finish in the top four. They are certainly grateful to finish outside the top four if they do not start performing better immediately.
Milan is not currently facing too much pressure from Inter at all because currently Inter is not performing well, and that is indirectly being very helpful for Milan. Atalanta will surely try to win the next match by a goal difference of at least 2 because that is going to take them ahead of Inter.
I don't really care about Inter's loss against Monza, but what concerns me is what happened to AC Milan. When Milan have the chance to add more points, it's always as I think, they didn't win. Maybe A draw is a better results than a loss, but while AC Milan still needs a lot of points to lock in 4th place, they still show an annoying inconsistency.
AC Milan has always been like that. The last season they were very lucky to actually win the title. But this time the luck is finally running out for them in my opinion. Almost all the teams have been inconsistent this season, except for two, Napoli and Juventus
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