Champions League final: Guardiola and Inzaghi, duel of words dreaming of the Cup

And then, obviously and predictably, more than words – which exude determination, mutual respect, awareness – the faces, the grimaces, the so-called body languagewhich perhaps allows a glimpse of what consolidated rhetorical schemes and by now stratified clichés manage to almost mechanically hide.

And yet, the Nerazzurri looks serene indeed, aware of the hardness of the climb that awaits them, but also of being able to face it when they are in the best form, and even in that phase of the season in which knots and doubts and misunderstandings seem to have been definitively overcome by now, thanks to the results and in the name of the common interest.

Together. Not by chance Inzaghi (extraordinary and good-natured barker, only apparently gifted with a stripped down and essential ars rhetoric) well underlines the key concept of this, and above all of the evening to come: “together”.
Little magic word that the technician declines like this, almost without using accents and tones, but in a very effective way: «Together we have arrived here, and together we will try to take the last step, that of the enterprise».

Adverb of manner that opens up a world, to the interlocutor who wants to fully understand the meaning: together it means compactness and unity of purpose, together they will try to dry up the sources of the game of citizenstogether we will stem Haaland’s physical overwhelming power, together we will try to strike whenever there is – or we will be good at creating – the possibility.

To the point that as well Lautarosolicited on the subject, politely declines the role of leader of the locker room, instead invoking a collective spirit that gives the idea better than any slate full of schemes that Inter will be faced with on Manchester City branded champions, sheikhs and petrodollars (but also technique and game, God forbid, otherwise what would Guardiola be doing??)