Serie A 2021/22: How Inter Milan Won The Derby D’Italia – Tactical Analysis

Sunday brought the third Derby d’italia meeting of the season as Juventus hosted Inter at the Allianz stadium.

With the Serie A table still being extremely tight, everything is open in terms of who will win the Scudetto.

Juventus came into the match sitting in fourth place one point behind Inter who occupied third.

The Bianconeri came into the match unbeaten in their last sixteen league matches.

They have closed the gap to the top of the table to seven points and had their eyes firmly set on making a late push for the Serie A title.

At the beginning of 2022, Inter looked odds on favourites to defend their Serie A crown.

However, two wins in nine league matches have seen them drop to third place, with the Nerazzurri sitting six points behind first-place Milan.

It turned out to be a very intense and tight game between two highly coached teams.

It was Inter who managed to scrape the victory and maintain their title challenge.

In this article, I provide a tactical analysis of the game and examine the key tactics used by Massimiliano Allegri and Simone Inzaghi.

Starting line ups

Juventus were without Luca Pellegrini as the Italian international was serving a one-match ban after picking up his fifth Serie A booking of the season.

Leonardo Bonucci and Denis Zakaria both returned to the bench.