{"id":82385,"date":"2026-09-08T05:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82385\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T05:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:17:11","slug":"scouting-inter-the-italian-champions-arrive-with-consistency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/82385\/","title":{"rendered":"Scouting Inter: The Italian champions arrive with consistency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Cristian Chivu\u2019s Inter come to the Bernab\u00e9u in red-hot form. Last season\u2019s Italian champions have won all three of their league games. Across the last ten matches, Inter created 2.01 npxG per game against a 1.88 average and scored 2.50 non-penalty goals. At the other end, they conceded 1.16 npxG against a 0.88 average, but only 0.90 non-penalty goals (p90).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Inter mostly create from the left. It is evident from their xT creation map from last season and this season so far. Serie A\u2019s player of the season, Federico Dimarco, is a huge influence from the left flank. However, Inter will miss the Real Madrid game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">Compared to last season, different p90 metrics are tracking in different ways for Inter. npxG created 1.64 to 2.80 (+71%), npxG conceded 0.80 to 1.22 (+53%), shots 16.41 to 23.22 (+41%), threat generated 1.61 to 1.92 (+19%), open-play passes 449.60 to 547.31 (+22%) and take-ons 12.12 to 10.18 (-16%). None is flagged because the division moved about as far. Goals scored, goals conceded, final-third passes, defensive actions, and aerial duels all held within 15%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1upudxki _174s0un1 _174s0un0 _1mt21p01\">The most-used eleven in 2026-27 over 3 matches has been Alessandro Bastoni, Federico Dimarco, Francesco Pio Esposito, Josep Mart\u00ednez, Lautaro Mart\u00ednez, Manuel Akanji, Nicol\u00f2 Barella, Andy Diouf, Hakan \u00c7alhanoglu, Petar Sucic and Piotr Zielinski. Eight of them also made the 2025-26 eleven; Francesco Pio Esposito, Josep Mart\u00ednez and Andy Diouf did not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cristian Chivu\u2019s Inter come to the Bernab\u00e9u in red-hot form. Last season\u2019s Italian champions have won all three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[82,13216],"class_list":["post-82385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-madrid","tag-madrid","tag-real-madrid-cf-data-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}