Leonardo’s Revolution - Why the Kings of Leon are thriving once again at Inter Milan.

By Mirko Corli, writing from Torino

Inter simply came back to life after offering a spot on the bench to Leonardo. Why? Let’s try a little analysis.

1) Confidence is back

One of Rafa’s leitmotifs was: “these players are tired, they’ve won everything last season, now they’re mentally and physically tired”. Nothing was more far from the truth. Players are still highly motivated to win, and they are recovering from injuries one by one, giving also the idea they are not going to have further problems: look at Maicon’s fantastic shape to have a confirmation. Leonardo just brought back confidence to the players: he said “these players won everything that was possibile to win, how can you consider them at the end of their path?”

(Source: philosofooty)