Federico Dimarco

He scored the goal, he won the penalty.

Di Marco looks like a shadow of himself when he came on and not because of what Di Marco is capable of doing with his left foot being depleted or anything of the sort.

But it seems like he's operating in areas that don't encourage his best qualities.

Last year, he was the widest possible player for Inter and he was crossing the ball in.

When he came on, he looked a lot more central.

At a point, Kivu told him, you could see, attack the wings.

And he told, I think, Di Marco responded, I'll attack when he moves.

And then he moved, I think it was Augusto, and Di Marco attacked the space.

So maybe he'll start him eventually.

For Inter, it was Martinez in goal with Bastogne, Akanji and Bissek at the back, Henrique on the right, Di Marco on the left with Suchic, Zielinski and Barella in the middle, Thuram and Esposito starting together up front.

10 minutes in, Miranda dispossessed Luis Enrique, Poberga broke into the box, and he beat Martinez at the near post with the inside of his left foot.

Chance, which he really enjoyed.

Yeah, I'm not completely, uh, convinced with Wesley, al- although I still think he's an all right option.

I think Federico Dimarco still.

You know, he picked up an assist last week.

He was actually my transfer in-

He makes the list here on the Limitless.

And Federico Di, Federico Di Marco has a chance of keeping a clean sheet and got an assist last time out.

So this is the room we bring him in again to cover for Inter.

And Sergi Artmeria is the only midfielder that is playing out of position, at least midfielder that is playing in the game as a defender out of position and most likely would get us those clean sheet points and possible ball recoveries or goal if im- if we are lucky to get a goal return for him.

Um, so that was the best bet I could come with, come up with in this game.

I was looking at the player props and Federico Dimarco to score or assist kind of caught my eye, but I wanted plus money on him.

And when I look back at his Champions League record last season, actually, it wasn't very good.

He only had one goal and zero assists in the Champions League.

Um, Carlos Augusto is, is your jolly, as you call in Italy, can play in very many different roles.

Dimarco has world-class left foot, but, uh, Luis Enrique on the left is, I think, is that's where he should start, as a left winger.

I don't think he should play on the right.

So maybe you have options there as well.

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right um next question joshua capelli says been a while since i've sent in a question had to take time off football given uh italy have been so bad not sure how carlo keeps going with all the despair anyway given coyote was so good and italy direct black direct wingers Should Roberto Mancini play Marco Palestra as a right or left winger, given he can play on either side and can beat his man? This is an interesting question because we've had this discussion for quite some time about, okay, well, Di Marco, what do you do with him? Can he play in a back four? And Marco Palestra, once he's fit, where do you fit him in? And so on.

Personally, my view is this.

You have a back, you have a defense now that actually works with the goalkeeper.

Donnarumma, Coyote, Bastoni, Scalvini, Calafiori.

That should be, like, don't touch that.

Let them get warm and, you know, warm up to one another and learn how to defend together, right? Now, with Di Marco and Palestra, okay, Di Marco you have to test next international break to see if you can play him in a back four and then decide what to do.

Because I think for me the Nations League is just basically about for Italy to, as I keep saying on these post-match reactions and on the pod, that for me I don't care about the result, for me it's about building something serious for when the qualifiers begin after Christmas.