Atletico Madrid - Inter (13 Mar 24) [2-1]

[dejavu]

Isn’t it so poetically Inter that Pavard, the player we bought to solve our defensive problems ends up fucking us with a bad error in such a crucial game.

For me it feels like the season is over. Don’t know if I’ll bother watching any more Inter games this season. Scudetto is in the bag. I dont think even we could fuck up a 16 point lead.

 

[.h.]

People thinking that we could win CL with this team are Hillarious. Our best players are Hakan and Lautaro, players that usually choke in big games. Cmon wtf

i wonder if you know that hoping, or expecting, us to get past R16 isnt the same thing as expecting us to win the CL

I would, tbh, never expect us to win the CL. I think its only really plastic fans at the absolute biggest clubs that can ever 'expect' to win a CL. But I was hoping to see an exciting, good run - as I said a fe days ago, maybe to the semis. Instead, its the 14th of March and our season is basically over. A team that is absolutely dominanting the league in an almost (or actually?) unprecedented fashion gets knocked out by a club that could realistically be playing europa league next year

 

[Dave54]

Good night. There are still 10 games left and I'm watching every single of them. 30 points maximum, 28 points are good enough for me. 8 wins and 2 draws.

 

[.h.]

Good night. There are still 10 games left and I'm watching every single of them. 30 points maximum, 28 points are good enough for me. 8 wins and 2 draws.

28 points != 8 wins and 2 draws btw

 

[Dave54]

28 points != 8 wins and 2 draws btw

well, right now we have 75 points. Corrected, 9 wins and 1 draw,

 

[bubba zanetti]

well, right now we have 75 points. Corrected, 9 wins and 1 draw,

Its not over yet, this is Inter and everything is possible!

 

[Nerazzurri00]

As i said, the team should learn from lazio and all the other competitors. Our finishing clear chances in such big games is awful, terrible, miserable and in such competitions like UCL this is punishable. In Meazza we should have scored 2 goals minimum so we could defend now.

This loss hurts more than the UCL final, knowing you have the best season, your players having the best atmosphere in the team, and still losing to Patetico who are struggling for top 4 in Spain.
Classic Inter, its always been like this, someone jinxed us since that 2010 final and we cannot simply progress. I didnt sleep last night and cant concentrate today on work....

 

[KevinB]

Pathetico brings on Depay and Riquelme, we bring on players that shouldn't be on a pitch unless on a Sunday amateur league.

The game was probably very good for neutrals, but fuck, why messing up simple chances... Worst game for Pavard, Thuram, Mkhi in an Inter shirt. Barella couldn't hold possession to save his life, Hakan was invisible. Toro had 4 Atleti players surrounding him but also was quite invisible.

We scored a nice team goal to then concede on the most idiotic way. We then held on quite okayish but the moment Depay hit the post I knew he'd score eventually.

This is only on ourselves, this team still has a lot to learn. Including Demone

 

[NimAraya]

The people who thought we are top 3 in Europe were delusional. We got some of the easiest draws in group stage and round of 16 and still couldn't progress to the quarterfinal.

They wouldn't be delusional if we took our chances and our penalties weren't pathetic. It's football, small details change the course of matches and tournaments. I can point out some few incidents which could stop the Mou's Inter, Pep's Barca, Zidane's Real, Ferguson's MU and many other teams from winning the CL and many other titles. Not all the wins and loses happen merely on the superiority of one side and the inferiority of the other side. Football is not chess.

 

[wera]

We needed to progress through R16. That hurts us in the long run. I'm afraid this Scudetto run could be the last one in a while. I don't think we are winning a 21st Scudetto next season.

 

[DiegoMilito22]

They wouldn't be delusional if we took our chances and our penalties weren't pathetic. It's football, small details change the course of matches and tournaments. I can point out some few incidents which could stop the Mou's Inter, Pep's Barca, Zidane's Real, Ferguson's MU and many other teams from winning the CL and many other titles. Not all the wins and loses happen merely on the superiority of one side and the inferiority of the other side. Football is not chess.

Even if we had beaten Atletico, we couldn't go past City, Real, Bayern, PSG, etc. We're definitely not a top 3 side in Europe.

 

[.h.]

Even if we had beaten Atletico, we couldn't go past City, Real, Bayern, PSG, etc. We're definitely not a top 3 side in Europe.

I'm *slightly* trolling when I say this, just to make a point but...

good thing we didnt draw any of those in our final run last year eh ;-)

 

[vex]

Good night. There are still 10 games left and I'm watching every single of them. 30 points maximum, 28 points are good enough for me. 8 wins and 2 draws.

Yeah, I don't know what's up with the season is over crowd. I know the disappointment is huge, but I watched over a decade worth of banter era inter, during which I was praying for at least one title. I will celebrate like mad that second star.

We just have to realize our form and quality in italy doesn't exactly translate in europe. Hell, juve cheated, bought the best players they could get their hands on, had a backing of whole of italy in terms of strong sponsorship and best they could do in cl is the same thing we did last year.

 

[Bluenine]

Atletico deserved to go through, they just didn't let Inter play. And as much as I would love to blame Simeone & his dark arts, Inter just didn't turn up last night. It was like watching boys vs men. We were getting easily pushed aside from the ball, always on the defensive rather than playing our natural game.

Atletico looked fitter, hungrier and were first to the ball all over the pitch. They took more initiative than us & looked like a top team. The only surprise was that Atletico didn't score more goals. The result is a big disappointment for us, but the truth is that we were lucky to take it to penalties.

The Ref was not giving 50-50 fouls to either team, he was letting the game flow as usually happens in Europe. Inter needed to play strong & physical, coz Atletico did just that & outmuscled us all over the pitch. Which was no surprise, and the fact that Inter did not have an answer to this physicality is on Inzaghi & the club. Maybe we need a Plan B for such games, I don't know what it is but surely it means we cannot play BOTH Calhanoglu + Mkhi in the midfield in such physical games. Don't get me wrong, I thought Hakan was our best midfielder yesterday, but tactically our midfield got outmuscled. Perhaps having a physically strong midfielder for such games could be our plan B. Or maybe there is another solution.

But yesterday didn't work, and now other teams know that to stop Inter you just need to get more up close & physical on our players. Maybe there aren't many teams in Serie A with the quality to pull this off & perhaps the Refs in Serie A blow their whistles too often compared to Europe, so Inter might still dominate Serie A. But Bologna did this to us a couple of times & gave us a lot of trouble. Our weakness is exposed. We definitely need a plan B.

That said, winning the CL is always a long shot. The 2nd star was our main objective this season, and the team is in line to achieve that. This is a successful season & this Inter team should be celebrated despite this result. Love this Inter for all the joy they have given us. We will be back next year!

 

[bubba zanetti]

Excuses that we were better team but lost cause we missed many chances are silly. Well, Atalanta also could score first and lead against us but it ended 4 0, Napoli had many chances and missed it all against us, we scored and won in the end. There is plenty games that we won this season getting lucky penalty or cause oponent missed some good chances. Bottom line, we were not good enough to beat Atletico. And thats it! No ifs and buts.We are not top european team. And definitely this is not best Inter in last 25 years. Some people here were delusional for thinking that Mhiki turned into his prime, that Lautaro is best striker in the world, that Pavard is best rb in the world, that Hakan is best midfielder in the world, or Barella. No they're not. Limone could do better job yesterday but he is overall doing great job this season. We need to full focus on finishing the job in the league, and if we win this season is a succes. Stop being delusional.

 

[Il Drago]

Either you're the most blatant Milan troll alive, or you let them live rent free in your head. They're 15 points behind us with a zero sum manager and an illegal sale investigation. Let it go.

How do you not think Barella is worth 50M? Not the point of your post, but still.

It's the first for at least 3 reasons:

- No mention of Barella who's BBIlanisti most hated Inter player
- Inclusion of Tomori to those who could bring a massive sum to Milan
- the thought Milan would have made it to the final with a "better" draw. What better draw? Real, City and Bayern? Because Benfica and Chelsea would have never made it to semi finals no matter the opponent.

 

[vex]

The people who thought we are top 3 in Europe were delusional. We got some of the easiest draws in group stage and round of 16 and still couldn't progress to the quarterfinal.

I think what some people, including me before this game, were banking on was our technical ability, which is pretty good even when you compare it to cl standard. We showed it as well against atletico in both games, they were clearly inferior in that regard all over the pitch.

But what we need to realize is that true quality is technical ability+mentality with the capital M. That's why we couldn't give any answers to their intensity and them just suffocating us. Best example of that was our treble winning team which this current team was shyly compared to in the recent weeks. Players like stankovic, materazzi, motta, milito, eto, samuel etc...are all players you could comfortably go to war with. I'm not sure the same feeling will arise if I start naming the roster of the current squad, and that's the problem if you want to go all the way to the end in a competition like cl.

 

[pupivn]

You have to trust your captain.

Taking him off the list would destroy his confidence even more than that miss will.

Didn’t say he shouldn’t take it, even I didn’t have much faith that he scored but not the last pen, could be after Hakan, more pressure on him and not good penalty tactic.

 

[KevinB]

Didn’t say he shouldn’t take it, even I didn’t have much faith that he scored but not the last pen, could be after Hakan, more pressure on him and not good penalty tactic.

Agree, the penalty line up was just horrible. But still reckon we would've lost. We should've sealed this game before the penalties

 

[brehme1989]

Can anyone name a player that stepped up against Atletico away in a CL knockout game that's not named Cristiano Ronaldo?

Half of you were jerking off to Liverpool in 2020 with likes 25 wins in a row and these guys tossed them out while having an even worse season in Spain than now...

What the fuck did you expect would happen coming here with just a goal advantage?
Ffs open your damn eyes and minds. What a shitfest of a thread....