Inter Milan assists the king to end 17 games without any gains. What is the key to the rebirth of the accused prince

Italian media commentator Altobec issued a comment detailing a special player in Inter Milan: Dimarco.

Commentator pointed out: "At Inter Milan, Dimarco is destined to be a special player. This is of course not only because he is the team's assists in the 2024-25 season (a total of 11 assists in the Champions League), but also because Inter Milan is his second skin. Inter Milan, who has played the main role in "Blue and Black Youth Training", is destined to be unique since childhood."

"However, over the past ten months, Dimarco has experienced a season with light and shadow, gaining a lot of praise and a lot of blame. His first few months of the season were excellent, but the last few months were extremely disappointing, which left him with too much accusation. Although it was a bit too harsh to describe him as a 'foot scapegoat'... But to be honest, one of the problems Inter Milan has to overcome before the start of the new season is: how to avoid Dimar The tragedy of the 17th game in the last sprint stage of last season has happened again? ”

The data shortage of these 17 games refers to the beginning of April 6, 2025 (Inter Milan's home game against Bayern). Until the Club World Cup Inter Milan vs. Fruminense, Dimarco had no goals or assists in 15 club games (Serie A 6, Champions League 4, Italian Cup 1, Club World Cup 4) and 2 national team games.

As mentioned earlier, Dima was the assist king of Inter Milan last season. When he was in excellent form, he played not only a "tactical pendant" but a "strategic weapon".

But in the most critical third-tier sprint period of the season, Dima was silent and gained zero offense.

Defensively, he made many mistakes, especially the sluggishness in the Champions League final, which cost the Blues and Blacks.

Therefore, many fans have put Inter Milan's "four big shots" on Dimarco. Not to mention, it is really not "targetless".

Dimalco was also in poor form in Italy, including Italy's defeat to Norway - this result made the Blues, who had missed the World Cup twice in a row, fall into anxiety because he might miss the third time.

So, why did a player who could contribute 5 goals and 15 assists to the club's national team in the first 2/3 of last season suddenly lose all his strength at the end of the season?

Altobec believes that it is because of Dima's poor endurance, and the three problems in last season were magnified, which led to him becoming a "gas-free car" during the season sprint period.

Question 1, in the summer of 2024, Dimarco returned to the team late due to participating in the European Cup, and missed the most critical physical reserve training during the summer training period. This buried dark thunder detonated at the end of the season. Not only Dima, but also Barrera, Bastoni, Tulam and others have this problem, and the degree of performance is different.

Question 2, the 2024-25 season is the year with the most frequent schedules and competitions in recent years. In such a season, in the wingback position where physical fitness is most needed, players like Augusto, who are rarely injured three times in one season in an unprecedented manner. Dima also suffered 4 injuries. You should know that in the previous five seasons, he only suffered 3 injuries in total.

Question 3, in the 2024 European League event, Dima's performance of 1 goal and 4 assists in 6 matches made Spaletti use him as a thigh and was unwilling to give him any rest time, which made him more bitter and tiring than when he was in the club on FIFA match days.

Dima was not a player with strong battery life. The above three problems exacerbated his "battery crisis". Therefore, at the end of the season, he lost all his condition and his offense and defense performance was very bad.

What if he could recharge the fuel?

commentator Altobec pointed out: "We cannot forget that Dima missed 25 days in March due to a hamstring injury and got a valuable opportunity to replenish physical fitness. Around that time, Dima scored 1 goal and 3 assists in four games (scoring against Napoli, 3 assists against Udinette and Cagliari), proving that as long as he has the opportunity to replenish fuel, he can play a role."

In summary, Italian media believes that the problem in Dimarco's last stage of last season was that it ran out of fuel.

So, can the three problems that trouble Dima last season be completely solved this season?

Injury problems are beyond human resources. The employment issues of the national team are not something Inter Milan can do.

The most promising change is that during this summer's summer training period, Ziwo and his coaching staff can use high-intensity training to help players like Dima lay a solid physical foundation. Recently, Dima has practiced very hard and I believe that the sweat he puts in summer will not be meaningless.

On the other hand, Inter Milan has more players who can play left-wingback this season than last season - in addition to Augusto, Zalevsky, and Enrique, who has been used on the left several times by Zivo. This also alleviated Dima's situation where he could only turn around in some periods last season.

In Inter Milan's 7-2 victory over Inter Milan U23, Dimarco assisted Pio, ending the embarrassment of not having any military achievements in 17 games. Although this is an informal game, the cooperation between the two "home-produced youth training" players is always popular with Inter Milan.

Let's see if Dimarco, the prince of Inter Milan, can get rid of the "start and end" like last season.