Focus on the Nerazzurri midfielder’s performance in yesterday’s Italy-Albania match: invaluable for his ability to combine quantity and quality
“How to do without it, where can you find someone else like that. If no one in this world is irreplaceable, Barella is becoming the irreplaceable for Italy.” The premise of the Corriere dello Sport is more than legitimate. Thinking back to yesterday’s Italy-Albania, we understand how important the Inter midfielder’s last-minute recovery was for Spalletti.
With some precious plays he helped his teammates (national and team) out of the embarrassment after the initial 0-1. The newspaper therefore continues: “After the karakiri, he doesn’t bat an eyelid. He doesn’t even mess up. The game resumes and he plays the game. He deals the cards and invents everything. In a quarter of an hour, he demonstrates what is, what does it mean, the player of superior caliber. Certainly, the highest caliber that is currently available to Barella is that Barella there, the one that Inter would like to keep for life, the one that Inzaghi would also like to play in stretcher, what many Rotary clubs around the world envy us with their tongues hanging out.
Having started out in the wild, spinning wherever he went, after the lead the coach asked him to get back in line alongside Jorginho, and he meekly complied. The quality and importance of his work do not change. He is about fighting and governing. He is Gattuso and he is Pirlo. He uses the club and the crochet. He plays the violin and carries the cross. How do you say? From the manual of clichés: European player. Whatever that means.”
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