Writing in his column for La Repubblica, Crosetti concedes the way Arsenal outplayed Inter suggests Italy's football traditions have disappeared.
He opined: "In the prehistoric days of 1977, Juventus went on to win its first international trophy, the now defunct UEFA Cup, eliminating the two Manchesters on the way: the city where, in the not-so-distant antiquity of 2003, the Bianconeri faced Milan in the all-Italian Champions League final.
"The Juve of almost 50 years ago didn't even have a single foreigner: the borders were still closed. No one would ever have achieved a similar feat again, and no one had done it before.
"So what happened, in half a century, if the dominant character of our football, even in relation to those who invented it, has completely disappeared?
"Arsenal's devastating victory over Inter Milan showed a huge difference in their league. Everything about the English team was resoundingly superior. And that's almost always the case when we face them: aside from Atalanta's victory over Chelsea, we've always been beaten this season, and very badly.
"In the last five years, they've won 15 times, and we've won eight. They humiliate us in the game, in the pace, in the collective joy of football they express (athletes and fans), in the stadiums filled to 95 percent, almost all of them ultra-modern and owned by the clubs, in the competitive intensity and therefore in the athletic preparation, not to mention the unimaginable power of their budgets."