This game had to be wrapped in some way. And Rino Gattuso has studied one to capitalize on the trip to San Siro. Who knows how many he'll give him, Lukaku, claimed the most skeptical on the eve of the first leg. The Napoli coach didn't even want to consider them, so much in his mind he had already planned the team to oppose the Serie A leaders. He would have invited her to attack and he would have tried to limit the damage. An idea, of course, but it couldn't have been just that, because what sense would it have been to put yourself there, to defend yourself, without even trying at least once. And then Napoli is always Napoli and something will be worth it. The good Antonio Conte will also have considered that Gattuso would close all the spaces to him, but he would also have thought that one of his two rams would have found the right starting point to bend his resistance. It didn't go well.

LATCH - It is kind of talking about it, because it tastes so much of ancient, of something that no longer belongs to modern football. But, every now and then, there is always some manager who does not disdain him to achieve a goal. Rino Gattuso was not ashamed to ask his own, on the contrary, he almost demanded it, because the race had studied it down to the smallest details. And he also considered that Fabian Ruiz's return could bring something new. To say that he got it right now is obvious, but the Calabrian technician has challenged Conte on a tactical level, proposing that 4-1-4-1 that is being talked about so much in these hours. The best result with this form was in the second 45 minutes, when Napoli gathered everything in their own half, closing any chance of seeing the ball in Lukaku and Lautaro, while Demme and Zielinski did the dirty work in midfield . The defense played, practically, a few meters from the medians and Manolas and Maksimovic also prevailed with the physique.

THE GOAL - It was born just when Inter was trying to sink the blows, despite the difficulties in finding the right spaces. Conte's was a too complex maneuver, made of a sometimes even boring ball turn, with Skriniar and De Vrji having touched more balls than all the other companions. The risk for the Nerazzurri was to take a restart, a mistake would have been enough and Napoli would have flown on the counterattack, with the speed of Callejon and Mertens. Instead, the action was initiated by Fabian Ruiz, who is not a sprinter, and he also had the coldness to go and close it with that left lap that Padelli could only accompany with his gaze on the net. Napoli won and mortgaged the Italian Cup semifinal. And, now, go and tell Gattuso that the bolt is not exactly the maximum of modernity.