Inter Milan, the defending champions, and Fiorentina, deprived of trophies for two decades, compete Wednesday (21:00) in Rome for the final Coppa Italia, dreaming of a possible double before the European finals that await them.
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If the Nerazzurri have never overshadowed Napoli in the league, Simone Inzaghi's team can still win all the other competitions in which they have participated this season.
After the victory in the Italian Super Cup in January against AC Milan (3-0), this dream goes through a success Wednesday at the Stadio Olimpico, before the big piece: the final of the Champions League against the ogre Manchester City on June 10, in Istanbul.
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Inter, king of Cups?
Defending champion in the "Coppa Italia", falling in the semi-finals of Juventus Turin (1-1, 1-0) and the first Italian team to reach a C1 final since 2017, Inter is clearly favorite. The main danger on the road to a 9th Coppa Italia would be to have the head already in Istanbul, Erling Haaland and all his gang.
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It is a risk. It is normal that the concentration is often more focused on the most important, but it is up to the coach, the club, the players, to find the attention required to face all the commitments, "said Monday the interim managing director Giuseppe Marotta, on Radio Rai1.
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The Coppa Italia is a trophy of great prestige, which we hold dear. I am sure that the players will find concentration, against an opponent of very high quality, "added the manager.
Simone Inzaghi has once again shown that he is a coach adept at cup matches. A cup specialist, he brilliantly took his team with him to the C1 and Coppa Italia finals.
A disappointing Fiorentina in Serie A, conqueror in the Cups
A bit like Inter, not yet assured of a place in C1 next season, Fiorentina disappointed in the league (11th, two days from the end). But La Viola has also redeemed itself with the cups, including a Europa League Conference final to be played on June 7 against West Ham.
In the Coppa Italia, La Viola benefited in its table from the missteps of AC Milan, its opponent promised in the quarters, and Napoli, which could fall to him in the semifinals, two teams who fell in the eighth.
Nevertheless, she arrives with a morale of steel, determined to win her seventh Coppa Italia, 22 years after the last in 2001, which is also the last trophy to date of the Florentine club. "We will have to play as we are: a really unpredictable team. We have great confidence," said sporting director Daniele Pradè.
Far from benefiting from a squad as large as Inter's, Viola coach Vincenzo Italiano, 45, whose reputation continues to grow in Italian football, admitted his team was "exhausted" after battling on all fronts.
"We're going to give everything we have"
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But I am convinced that we will recover all our energy, at least to put in difficulty one of the best teams in Italy. We will do our best and give everything we have, "said the technician, whose name is cited by the press as a possible successor to Luciano Spalletti at Napoli if the latter leaves the club after the league title.
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We will have to be patient while trying not to make mistakes," he also said. These players know how to do it because in the league, the last confrontation against Inter gave birth to a Florentine success (1-0), at San Siro at the beginning of April. A success would plunge Florence into intoxication and already lock a qualification in the Europa League before a possible historic double.
