The wrong mindset to the game in soccer

In our soccer league, it is clear that a problem that affects the game of the teams and, therefore, the result is the inability to maintain a standard of continuity of play. Even this week, we heard Inzaghi, Inter’s coach, say that the team had entered the field to play the match against Torino with the wrong mentality. It means starting a match with superficiality in the hope that sooner or later a goal would have decided the game in their favor.

Wrong mentality means conducting a warm-up just to avoid getting hurt, having the mind occupied by other thoughts that do not concern the game or absenting themselves from what happens on the field.

When this lazy approach affects a team it is very difficult to change it during the course of the game: at the beginning it dominates the presumption that the result will change in their favor, as if it were obvious, while at the end a state of apathy can take over with a game almost stopped or paroxysmal agonism, dominated by a sterile agonism.
This is a problem that Juventus had in the first few games of the season, in a more evident way, and that was so serious as to compromise the entire championship. The other teams pretending to the title have manifested it more in this second phase of the season with a series of useless draws with lower level teams.

It is these lost points that will decide the championship, without prejudice to the possibility of collapses or resounding comebacks and that will always give us a demonstration of the team mentality.