Cristian Chivu said Inter go into their match against Torino calm, focused and with more players back in training, as Alessandro Bastoni worked with the squad on the eve of the Serie A game and will be checked again before kickoff. The Inter coach said Bastoni still has some discomfort, but insisted the defender had trained and would be assessed the next day.
Chivu also said Inter had recovered players and had put themselves in a condition to dream, with the team serene and aware of the work they have done. The coach framed that mood around the whole season, not just the stretch after the international break, saying the side knows there are still points and matches to play to get closer to its target.
The weight of the night, though, goes beyond one defender’s fitness. Inter have scored more than 100 goals this season, including 78 in Serie A, and Chivu presented that production as the product of a squad that has kept moving even when players were not fully healthy. He said Piotr Sucic had been dealing with a triple fracture in his hand for the last few months, but had still played many matches with a cast and remained available to the team through difficult periods.
That injury had not been made public earlier, Chivu said, because the club feared someone could hurt Sucic if the issue became known. He added that the midfielder had now returned to full fitness, was no longer limited in his movements and had handled the job of helping the squad through a demanding run.
Inter’s visit to Torino comes with the side in a familiar position: chasing results while trying to keep the group intact. Chivu’s comments fit into a season in which Inter have already shown both firepower and resilience, and the next test is whether that balance holds when the match starts and the margins become smaller.