Giampaolo Pazzini said Inter’s comeback win over Bologna should not hide a pattern that is becoming hard to ignore: they went behind again, and this time it was the fourth time in the league. Speaking to Sport Mediaset after the match, he said he did not think Chivu would be pleased with another early deficit, even if Inter still turned the game around.
That is why Milan Vs Atalanta is drawing attention around Inter right now. The point is not only that they won again, but that they keep having to win from a hole. Pazzini tied that habit to a specific early-season mark, saying Inter have 19 points after the first 7 league matches for the fourth time in their history, a number that usually sounds like strong form until it is put next to what came afterward in those past seasons.
His explanation was blunt. In his view, the players seem so strong that they can afford to give away a first half because they believe they will find a way back. He said that confidence is real, but so is the danger that comes with it. A team can recover matches because of its squad depth and the options on the bench, and Inter, he said, are the only Serie A side that can win even when they are not at 100 percent.
That is the part that makes the statistic matter beyond the headline number. Pazzini named Simoni, Cuper and Spalletti in linking Inter’s current tally to three previous seasons that reached the same 19-point mark after 7 league matches without ending with a scudetto. The history does not prove the same finish will follow this time, but it does show why another slow start is more than a detail when the margins at the top are so thin.
For Inter, the next question is not whether they can come back once more. They already have. It is whether a team that keeps trusting its own recovery can keep doing so without paying for the habit later in the season.
