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Most Improved MemberThey definitely do. And the most ridiculous thing is that for them, Acerbi Darmian and Bastoni are worse than Kalulu, Tomori, Thiaw and Kjaer.
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not having right CBs pair, playing into Inzaghi’s hands with high line and attacking football while we sitting deep.
Ok but as if we couldn’t play possession football, if they sit back and let us have the ball, result would be the same, I cannot say even more but I doubt their players be able to play that way, especially someone famous for defending like Theo. I haven’t had confidence like this before derby for long time.
Ok but as if we couldn’t play possession football, if they sit back and let us have the ball, result would be the same, I cannot say even more but I doubt their players be able to play that way, especially someone famous for defending like Theo. I haven’t had confidence like this before derby for long time.
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10 years of FIFThey probably have AC vs Milan debate lolWe have Inter or Inter Milan debate though
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Barella and Dimarco got 63 minutes yesterday, Bastoni 74 and Hakan 79. Inzaghi did good job here also,we preserved this 4 somewhat. Dumfries will probably need to sit at some point soon,maybe next weekend.
Barella and Dimarco got 63 minutes yesterday, Bastoni 74 and Hakan 79. Inzaghi did good job here also,we preserved this 4 somewhat. Dumfries will probably need to sit at some point soon,maybe next weekend.
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10 years of FIFInzaghi’s Inter Milan lost some stars and just got better
By James HorncastleRoll up! Roll up for the circus! The choreography prepared by Milan’s ultras before Saturday’s Derby della Madonnina depicted a big top with a sad clown and a couple of giraffes in Inter’s colours inside.
A fortune teller, front and centre, let the fans sat at the opposite end of San Siro know it wasn’t their destiny to be the King of Cups. The palms of Inter coach Simone Inzaghi offer a different reading. After all, he has won four in two years but in the lore of this rivalry, Milan’s hardcore wished to overlook them and remind their ‘cousins’ of the seven Champions League trophies back at the club’s office in the Portello neighbourhood of the city and, more pointedly, the one Inter didn’t bring back from Istanbul at the end of last season.
They were taking the Mickey and, not for the first time, a certain Henrikh Mkhitaryan soon made Milan look silly. A 5-1 defeat was the heaviest Milan have suffered in the derby in nearly half a century (1974). A chorus of “Milanista chiacchierone, quanta fantasia hai” reverberated under the red girders of this hallowed ground, a lyric about the loudmouth Milan fan and his wild imagination who, all of sudden, was being brought back down to reality by an unprecedented fifth straight defeat in this fixture. “It was the show of force I wanted,” Inzaghi said. “Only the other day I was told it had never happened before. I’m happy for the Inter family. It’s a big deal.”
The 47-year-old, who is up for UEFA’s Coach of the Year award along with Pep Guardiola and Luciano Spalletti, continues to impress. Managing Inter is not easy. The club’s financial situation means Inzaghi can expect to lose players every summer. Replacing them takes time. He departed for the club’s pre-season tour of Japan without a first and second-choice goalkeeper. The departures of Andre Onana, Milan Skriniar, Marcelo Brozovic, Edin Dzeko and Romelu Lukaku were the sort of thing his predecessor Antonio Conte would have quit over. But Inzaghi gets on with it and his team, perplexingly, looks better than ever.
“Up until three games ago, you were saying Inter were worse off because of the players that had been lost,” he said. “Now you make out Inter have to win.” With every passing game, defeat in Istanbul appears in retrospect to have had a transformative effect. Inzaghi and his players returned home from Turkey with palpable regrets. They were disappointed not because they lost but because they played well enough to beat a team as good as treble-winning Man City. It has given Inter a confidence that sets them on another level to anybody else in Italy at the moment. They have blown teams away. Inter went into the international break with a perfect record. For the first time since 1966, they won their opening three games without conceding, and a 4-0 trouncing of last year’s Conference League finalists Fiorentina preceded Saturday’s 5-1 humbling of Milan.
It is an excellent team. Inter provide the core of Luciano Spalletti’s Italy at a time when no Milan or Juventus players figured in his first game in charge. As a result, some thought Inter would be tired for the derby, particularly with Lautaro Martinez flying back from Bolivia. Instead, they picked up where they left off this season and in this rivalry. New faces delivered old results. Marcus Thuram was close to joining Milan on a free transfer in the summer only to suddenly pivot to Inter who, in fairness, held an historic interest having twice already tried to sign him. In the end, they offered more money, maybe already aware Lukaku wasn’t serious about making his move from Chelsea permanent.
The 26-year-old Thuram had already made a statement against Fiorentina, showing fine aerial prowess to score his first goal in Serie A and great awareness too in setting up another for Martinez. Then on international duty, as a substitute for the injured Olivier Giroud, he scored his first goal for France against Ireland.
“(Didier) Deschamps was very complimentary about him,” said Inzaghi, who played against Marcus’ father, Lilian, the World Cup-winning centre-back.
But this performance was something else.
Inter took full advantage of Fikayo Tomori’s suspension. They let Milan have the ball and then looked to hit them by releasing Thuram in the channel. He ran Malick Thiaw ragged and, after playing a role in Inter’s opener, Thuram chased down a lost cause and curled in an early contender for goal of the season in Serie A. “I should have come here two years ago,” Thuram said, referencing the knee injury he suffered at Borussia Monchengladbach that thwarted an earlier switch to Inter. “(Their interest) always stayed with me.”
While Milan coach Stefano Pioli felt his team were in the game until Mkhitaryan got his second goal and made it 3-1, it did feel like deja vu. In the Super Cup in Riyadh in January, Inter were 2-0 up early on, as they were in the first leg of the Champions League semi-final, and as they were, again, on Saturday. It didn’t matter that Dzeko, their tormentor, had left for Fenerbahce. It didn’t matter that Lautaro failed to score. The Argentine was devastating all the same. He set Denzel Dumfries and Thuram through for a two-v-two that led to the second goal — “Lautaro’s very easy to play with,” Thuram said — and then won a penalty at 2-1 just as Pioli made a triple change hoping to find an equaliser.
Hakan Calhanoglu, the former Milan No 10 reinvented as a deep-lying playmaker at Inter, buried it and, in some respects, stole Thuram’s thunder as the Turk’s goal, those of Mkhitaryan and the substitute Davide Frattesi — whom Mkhitaryan set up — offered a reminder that this midfield is currently Italy’s best and probably has been since April this year. The addition of Frattesi, who scored a brace in Italy’s win over Ukraine on Tuesday, hints that there is more to come from Inter as do the signings of Benjamin Pavard, Davy Klaassen and the return of super sub Alexis Sanchez, a player Inter paid to leave after a successful spell only a year ago.
Milan, meanwhile, need not overreact. Up until Saturday, the signs have been very encouraging and it was hoped the overhaul of the team’s midfield and attack would make these derbies closer contests. Still, the scale of this defeat will sting. You can lose but not like that regardless of the stylistic mismatch posed by Inter, who succeeded in making Christian Pulisic peripheral and were able to stop Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Tijjani Reijnders doing what they’ve done so well this season, which is bouncing off Giroud and making dangerous runs into the box.
Top of Serie A as his team returns to the Champions League, Inzaghi deserves wider acclaim. The first Inter coach to have a third season since Roberto Mancini, it is, in hindsight, remarkable to reflect on how close he was to the sack at various stages of the last campaign only to ascend to a new, higher status. Inter may still resemble a financial highwire act but, on the pitch, they’re not a clown show. Even Cirque du Soleil doesn’t describe the spectacle they put on against Milan as San Siro once again turned into the city’s opera house, La Scala, and witnessed a truly virtuoso performance.
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10 years of FIFFirst of all, a huge thanks for this club. Players, mgmt, coaching staff, fans. This moment will stay with us for many years.
- Hakan ia one of the best midfielders in the world for a while. Yesterday he was brilliant in the defebsive pahse and on the 2nd half also the attacking one.
- Carlos Augusto wasa bargain already but its seems like he's been here for years and not a month and a half. I really like him.
- Our depth is something else compared to the other team in the league. Pavard, Senchez, JQ, Sensi and Klaassen didnt even got a minute yesterday. Its amazing imo and Simone has all tools he needs to win the scudetto.
- Simone and the all team seems way mature than they were last season. I think its becuase the CL final that we realize that we have one the best teams in the world.
Inter is here again and we should aim for all titles.
- Hakan ia one of the best midfielders in the world for a while. Yesterday he was brilliant in the defebsive pahse and on the 2nd half also the attacking one.
- Carlos Augusto wasa bargain already but its seems like he's been here for years and not a month and a half. I really like him.
- Our depth is something else compared to the other team in the league. Pavard, Senchez, JQ, Sensi and Klaassen didnt even got a minute yesterday. Its amazing imo and Simone has all tools he needs to win the scudetto.
- Simone and the all team seems way mature than they were last season. I think its becuase the CL final that we realize that we have one the best teams in the world.
Inter is here again and we should aim for all titles.
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Most Humorous MemberThis. Massive props to Limone.
Someone said he'll spit on his head on the Meazza. Beware @BluenineWas checking some Bbilan forum, they still think their squad is better than ours, only the coach made the difference.
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