4 giants fighting for the Italian Super Cup title

2025/01/02 1:42:20 AM

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4 giants fighting for the Italian Super Cup title

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will host the Italian Super Cup, where Inter Milan, the league champion, will face Atalanta, the leaders of the current season, tomorrow in the semi-finals, while Milan will play against Juventus on Friday, with the winners facing off in the final next Monday.

The first confrontation brings together the two best teams so far this season in Italy, as only one point separates them in the league standings, which Atalanta leads with 41 points on goal difference from Napoli, compared to 40 points for Inter, third, which has a postponed match.

Inter enters the confrontation with all its striking strength, with the exception of defenders Francesco Acerbi and Frenchman Benjamin Pavard, who are absent due to injury.. The Nerazzurri are relying on the strength of their attacking system, as they have scored 54 goals so far this season, and most importantly, 18 different players participated in the scoring.

On the other hand, Atalanta is not experiencing a less glamorous period than its rival, but coach Gian Piero Gasperini’s team is seeking to get rid of Inter’s complex, as the last victory it achieved over the Nerazzurri dates back to November 11, 2018, with a score of 4-1, and after that the two teams faced off 13 times. Inter won eight of them to five Draws.

In the other confrontation, Milan, the owner of seven titles in the competition, is experiencing a negative period that culminated in the dismissal of its Portuguese coach Paulo Fonseca a few days ago and the appointment of his compatriot Sergio Conceicao in his place.

The test for Conceição against Juventus will not be easy, especially since injuries have affected the most prominent stars of his Portuguese team, Rafael Leao, the Americans Christian Pulisic and Yunus Musa, the English Ruben Loftus-Cheek, the Serbian Luka Jovic, the Swiss Noah Okafor, and the Nigerian Samuel Chukwueze.

As for Juventus, it is also not experiencing a distinguished season, as it currently occupies sixth place in the Italian League with 32 points, but the team < /span>He does not suffer from influential absences, with the exception of his Brazilian defender, Gleeson Bremer, while he has strong weapons, led by the Portuguese Francisco Conceição, the son of the coach, the Frenchman Keverin Thuram, the Belgian Samuel Mbanjula, and the Turkish Kenan Yildiz.