Italian Journalist Mario Sconcerti: “Inter Are More Complete Than Juventus Who Rely On Ronaldo’s Goals” | OneFootball

Italian journalist Mario Sconcerti believes Inter are “more complete” than Juventus.

One of the most highly-anticipated matches of the Serie A season takes place at San Siro tonight as the Nerazzurri welcome their rivals for the Derby d’Italia.

Both sides are looking to chase down Milan, with defending champions Juve seven points off the top albeit having played one game fewer.

Andrea Pirlo’s side are also trailing Inter by four points and the Beneamata can strike a real blow in the Scudetto race with a win.

However, they haven’t been on the winning side in the Derby d’Italia since 2016 when an Ivan Perisic winner gave Frank de Boer’s side a 2-1 win at San Siro.

Coach Antonio Conte has never beaten Juve as an opponent but writing in Corriere della Sera journalist Sconcerti outlined his belief that it’s Inter who are the more complete outfit.

Previewing the Derby d’Italia he insisted that Juve are too reliant on Cristiano Ronaldo but their ownership is the real difference between the clubs.

“Inter are more complete than Juve,” he wrote.

“Not better, more complete.

“They only have one role that’s open for discussion and that is who will set the tempo for the team but they have Brozovic.

“Juve are moving forward in fits and starts, they’re capable of playing well but not consistently.

“The only thing that makes the difference for them is how freely Ronaldo scores but they’re goals that don’t have much to do with the team’s play.

“That’s the difference between him and Lulaku: Juve rely on Ronaldo’s goals, Inter on Lukaku’s play.

“There’s less clarity in the Belgian’s goals but he is infinitely useful for his power and the way he knits the play together.

“It’s clear that Inter have reached their maximum while Juve have a way to go.

“That makes me think that Inter are favourites today but it’s a prediction you have to take with a pinch of salt.

“The real big difference between Juve and Inter is on the corporate level.

“Juve have had the same ownership for 97 years which means consistency in management and the relationship with football, which is ever-changing.

“The Agnellis were there during fascism, during the war, in reconstruction, in the boom, with tangentopoli, and in the time of the internet.

“They didn’t move with football, football moved with them.

“When we talk about Juve’s privileges, we talk about this, the relationships they have built, the environment they have created around them, the alliances that have been born and expanded, of all the infinite economic and political games that a big company builds over a century until it becomes a system.

“Inter are now dependent not so much on their own crises but on the internal political decisions of the Chinese government.

“That’s unacceptable.

“When the foreign presidents arrived, we didn’t just lose the Italian character of football, we lost any social relationship with our teams.

“We sold out to take a punt on the market but in that moment each of us became a stranger to his own world.

“When Moratti was there we knew where he had his coffee, we all went to the bar with him to talk about Inter.

“If we didn’t like things we protested but we knew where the temple was.

“Now whose hands are we in? What does it mean to be owned by an investment fund?

“Except that there is no longer a company in the world that can spend a billion on an activity where the aim of the game is to win, not to earn.

“Today FIAT is the fourth biggest automobile company in the world and that’s a triumph but if Juve finished fourth it would be a huge defeat.

“That’s why football is now a poisoned game and it’s no coincidence we live in a deeply Juventus world.”