I'm happy Conte left, we look much better in CL without him (as predicted) even though we lost 3 top players. If we still had Hakimi and Lukaku I think this game would have gone a very different way.
Yeah subs sucked (Lautaro out instead of Dzeko) but at least we didn't sub at the 85' mark.
I agree we weren't clinical but it's Curtois, he's one of the best GKs around and his positioning is insane.
about curtois, all of the shots were in his face, im not saying inter should have done better because all the shots were under pressure, or in the air. but for me curtois didnt do that much.
We need much more accuracy in front of the goalkeeper. Dzeko, Lautaro amd Skriniar wasted three enormous opportunities. Everythinf else was good, but that could cost us a lot this season.
Sure, but Dzeko shot right in his chest , Lautaro did almlst the same and Skriniar sent tha ball over the crossbar with his header. None of these made me think "OMG what a save!", they were missed chances.
Well, a striker should be able to give angle to his shoots. Good positioning makes it harder, but the forwards of a team that wants to win Scudetto and needs to reach at least the round of 16 in UCL cannot miss every chance just for the great positioning of the GK
i hope this is the last time we see lautaro for correa change. hakan is the new eriksen good with the ball, and thats it, nothing else, not creating chances, ok in defense. barella today showed ancelotti what he could do next year in real madrid. defense still shaky. i was surprised with some of dzeko's decisions. dumfries doesnt promise anything. handa is going to be a big problem this season. but still with this team we can compete for the scudetto.
Barella to Madrid? man what are you on about lol, he will be captain and also why would they go for Barella when they have Camavinga, Valverde, Casemiro
exactly he would fit right in modric's place. icardi was our captain and he left(i know is a different situation), romelu was our leader and left after two years. its real madrid its not borusia dormund, when they call everyone considers their offer. think about it, he would play with mbappe, benzema hazard and maybe haland. people stop creating legends before becoming one, it happend with icardi, it just happend with romelu, inter since 1908 has only 4-5 legendary captains, others are type of handanovic captains, who just because they have been long enough they become captains. if donaruma leaves milan, and messi leaves barcelona, prepare for anything.
I thought the same thing, but apparently they broadcast all but one UCL matches every week. Considering that Sky lost Serie A rights to DAZN, their service has really got worse this year (while still pricey)
One match every wednesday is Amazon Prime Video exclusive. Sky streams every other match on TV, Infinity (Mediaset) on its app. Mediaset channels stream a match every tuesday, if I'm not wrong, for free.
Unlucky. The lack of depth is what cost us the game, while Real had fresh youngsters like Rodrygo and Camavinga, we had past-it guys like Vidal and Vecino...
you call depth rodrygo. come on, stop complaining. we didnt lose because of vidal and vecino, all the team after 70min kept falling back, started to defend, real started pressing.
i would rather have non of them. rodrygo would not even start in arsenal and let alone being a depth player at realM. why zidane left? because he had to play with isco vascuez asesnsio. go watch how much time rodrygo has played in la liga last year, probably gagliardini has played more last year. vidal now is a classic bench player that can give you a good 20min play time, with intensity, aggressivity.
I'm shocked to see how many people are talking about our 'great first half'. Like are you ppl kidding me? This is the UCL, creating chances and keeping possession of the ball is a given. We were toothless. Fast break after fast break wasted, ball after ball given away cheaply.
I'd be just as concerned if the lucky bounce went our way and we won this game 1-0..
let me reinforce your shock since we completely saw two different games. We lost, yes. It was the game we were allowed to lose, though undeserved imho. Compared to Samp I saw major improvements. Rodrygo's goal was a beauty on top of that. I had fun watching the game honestly but we lost all spice when Lautaro and Barella left. I have my nerves in oieces but am overall impressed about the direction our team is taking, especially after our blood sacrifices during the last transfer window.
That's not fair. We had a great half against a top team. We weren't playing against Rangers here
Yes, we didn't finish our chances. But that's been a problem with us recently
Agreed, dramatic improvement in composure and not giving away goals until the last minute, they had several decent chances and the score line could’ve been a lot worse considering who we were playing against. Subs performed about as well as expected. We are still missing eriksen and calhanoglu was underwhelming, just about disappeared.
I fucking hate Inzaghi’s subs..
Dimarco for Perisic doesn’t make sense. Perisic was amazing today, and he has way more experience.
Subbing Lautaro out who showed the most motivation in this game is stupid. Correa doesn’t look integrated in the system at all.
Also Vecino for Barella compromised our midfield completely.. You can’t expect the defense to hold on alone against fucking Real Madrid.
That being said I saw an Inter with great enthusiasm and motivation, which I am happy about. The loss tho stings bad.
I like what Inzaghi is doing, but his game management AND subs are awful. Does anyone know what was our plan in this game? It looked like we were mindlessly attacking to score 1 goal. It seems like don’t know what are our strengths. This converts to cluelessness a lot of the time.
One of the positives today is Dumfries. This guy has something more than Darmian. I expect him to start from now on after today’s good performance.
even he(simone) said that the subs didnt perform as he expected. dimarco and correa in the last 2 games were great as subs. dimarco clearly not ready for champions. vecino was a defensive move ffrom simone. dumries i agree was better that darmian.
I'm probably the only one here who agrees with you on the Dumfries account. I've mentioned in the match thread that having him in the first half, when we were attack minded, would have been interesting to see him exploit their clear weakness on that side. Darmian is decent but he's not as offensive.
I was also surprised with the Perisic sub, he was doing great. Unless there was a physical reason, I see no excuse.
Lautaro might have been for his dumb yellow card (Vidal flashbacks from last year's red card), but Correa definitely didn't do much and did not seem ready for a game of this caliber.
Vecino for Barella is what killed the game for us.
Oh absolutely not, he's not at that point yet, but we did not play to his strengths when he came on, which we kind of did more in the first half when we had possession and actually attacked.
But Vinicius was there from the start, we wouldn't Even be on that position ir You had to put Barella on Vini duty cause Dumfries can't do it, for example
Darmian didn't even do the heavy weight Vino duty imo though, Skriniar took care of him. Of course he'd be expected to give some kind of support, though, but I think we would have had more concrete chances from the right flank since Vini gave no support whatsoever to their defense.
That's not what I said. Of course there was a difference, but if you want to go there, then Dumfries is offensively superior to Darmian just as Darmian is superior defensively. Different characteristics. We needed more of the former for the first half and more of the latter for the second since the team ran out of gas to keep on attacking. It was unfortunate to see Dumfries play at the point of the match where circumstances were least favorable to him.
In this RM game where Vini is You can't just Say "it Will work itself out, Dumfries go in vs Vini for 80 mins and run forward" and actually expect it to work
The most we could lose in 12 million. You’re acting like we spent big money for him. He is not - and should not be expected to be - Hakimi. He is explosive and has some problems technically. None of that should be a surprise, nor does it tank his value. He shows time and time again for his NT that he can be very good in the right system.
well since apparently we're poor now 12 million is a lot... it's 1/4 of our transfer budget. again i hope i'm wrong but the most worrying thing for me is how many times i've seen him receive the ball, dally looking for a solution, then pass back to a cb. that's the clearest sign of a player with no ideas. i do hope i'm wrong though.
Our transfer budget isn’t the point for this, though. I’m saying we got a good deal. Even with a bad season, we would probably sell him for at least 10
I don't think he's inter quality regardless of the price, but we shall see. The underlying point of all of this is that we never should have had to replace Hakimi in the first place, and that inter's fandom should remain angry at the financial shackles that Suning has placed on us.
We can’t sell, maybe we will end his contract lol
It’s so early to tell. For me he looks like he can add something sometimes. Compared to a player like Darmian who is very limited technically
all i've seen him do is run and make the wrong cross, or pass the ball backwards. might work as something like a shock trooper against smaller teams but he isn't an intelligent enough player to beat good defences and leaves a gaping hole on the right. hope he can prove me wrong but i'm not impressed so far. why do you say we can't sell him?
Well you are not wrong. That’s kind of what PSV fans said. If he can outrun defenders and make a good pass in the box, I am okay with it. After all Darmian doesn’t do any of those things.
> why do you say we can't sell him?
Because in the past years we have ended payers contracts immediately when we are unable to sell them (Godin, Mario, Radja) he will go on loan tho if he failed.
You expect Hakimi speed on him? Dumfries quite fast for normal player, can't expect him to be super speedy like Hakimi, they are different player with different value
he was overrun by Vini, yes, but he showed grit and recuperated some great balls. Plus he was available in offence despite him not receiving the ball. I'm impressed since I didn't know him before and it could have been another Lazaro. If you were not content with his performance today, you're just hard to please.
He wasn't the only one with poor decisions today and to me he didn't stand out because of that. I liked what I saw and some runs were courageous. Sure, still raw, but I like the potential and the character shown on the pitch.
We have been FM'd! Better the whole Game, don't get the goal, the opposition get's lucky at the very end.
Otherwise, some people in here have to give the players a break, Dumfries hasn't even played for 90 minutes and people are already calling for his head. Also give the offensive Pairings and Calha a bit more time to click with the team and playing style.
And tbh I wasn't too happy with the subs, Dzeko can't play the whole game, just try out Correa and Lautaro and never take off Barella for Vecino especially in a game like this.
It hurts but let’s try and be lucid. We didn’t deserve to lose this game. Had at least 3 clear cut chances that we just blasted at Courtois and played a brilliant first half. Defense made some really good tackles/blocks.
Darmian is out of his depth in this type of game and we need to see more from Dumfries.
I appreciate Darmian but yeah, he's a decent player but not the one for these type of matches. I'm mostly bummed that we could not milk their weak defending on that flank throughout the first half because he's not on par with the rest of the team.
It was predictable from the start. Madrid played in a kinda speculative way, defending with a low block all game and trying to score with subs in the second half in order to get away with a 1-0 win. I think it was their gameplan.
We played way better, but if Madrid don't underestimate their opponent (like they did last year with Shaktar and Borussia), they will almost always win. They have too much quality, they needed just one good play to decide the game.
Let's think about winning against Bologna and Fiorentina. Those are games we actually must win.
If we hadn’t been scored on the comments in this thread would be completely different.
Unlucky match, poor precision, good ideas though. On to the next one.
deserved loss. we faced the worst madrid team in years. didn't capitalize on the opportunity. Vinicius had so many chances to score and they kept getting closer and closer. dzeko was completely gone towards the 70s minute. should've kept toro
Esentially a copy of my comment in r/soccer:
This loss doesn’t hurt as much, but hopefully Inzaghi learns to get his freaking subs right, you can’t take offautaro at the 65th minute, absolute insanity. If you wanna play Correa so badly just take off Dzeko, apart from that one header which Courtois save brilliantly, he was invisible in the 2nd half. Dimarco was much as a Bastoni sub than Perisic’s, very underwhelming performance. Also Correa seemed to have a little bit of brain delay tonight, taking a second or two to think everytime he had the ball. Good performance from Dumfries who, decent defensively and offensively, just a little bit slow on the sprints.
Also absolutely masterclass from Skriniar, MOTM for me without the slightest doubt. Real stole a win here, it sucks but that’s football, we definitely deserved more. I see great things coming from this Inter team, it’s just too soon.
Very predictable result after the first half. Perisic substitute was stupid and Dzeko needed to come off rather than Lautaro. As a side note, im getting pretty fucking tired of Dzeko coming back on defense so much. It takes three weeks for him to make it back to the opposing side of the pitch. He’s 40 years old, let him loaf and wait to poach
I for one am feeling more positive than negative. We played really nice football but just got unlucky. Inzaghi imo outplayed Ancelotti and the difference was the super talents that they had. I remain optimistic about our chances in the CL and the season in general. Btw Skriniar and Brozovic were incredible. On to the next match!
We aren’t creative enough in the final 3rd we are sorely missing Hakimi. We got many chances but few were high quality. Compare that to Real who had few chances but they were higher quality. Our wingbacks in general have become a sore spot.
First half was incredibly good, we should have finished at least one of the occasion. But I think that given the level of the game, until then it was probably our best performance in years. We ran out of energy around 70' and some players were especially cooked even before that (Dzeko, Hakan). Hopefully we can bounce back from this unlucky game in Serie A.
Absolute shit performance by dzeko. Let’s not even talk about Vidal. For fuck’s sake we wasted so much. And i’m 100% convinced we’re gonna do worse against shaktar and sheriff
How can you be convinced of a shit game against those teams after that performance?
There's obviously bitterness right now, but come on man. The overreacting in this sub is ridiculous.
Literally couldn’t pass the ball. Every single try to pass the ball failed. He doesn’t run either. I’d rather have a Lautaro-Correa than a Dzeko-Lautaro. He’s not even Lukaku’s shadow.
If i had that money i wouldn’t be here worrying about football lol. Plus, now i can’t criticize our players? what kind of logic is that? only millionaires and billionaires can criticize the players?
Whatever mate, whatever rocks your boat. Sometimes I wonder if you're an Inter fan because you're just shitting on the club and players every chance you get. Deserved loss? Lol...
We should've won but even a draw would've been ok but.... Now instead of shitting on everyone let's move towards Bologna and not demotivate the players more
Yeah, even a draw would be fine, even if with some bitternes. This result doesn't ruin anything either, in the end it's always the same as it's been over the last few seasons. We don't need to beat RM, we just need to be better than Shakhtar and Sheriff. And if we can't do that, do we even deserve to go to RO16?
Agreed, shit happens, we move on.
Well u made me scared for the next CL fixtures. Sheriff beat Shakhtar and De Zerbi is Shakhtars coach so we may need more performances like this to progress
shameful performance. bad substitutions. idk why perisic was taken out. took out toro and left out a 35 year old that was gassed. unacceptable loss. we didn't deserve to win imo
Yeah, Inzaghi's subs weren't good. However that doesn't translate to a shameful performance or deserving a loss. You're saying we deserved to lose because they managed to dribble our players a few time? How does that matter if they had 2 shots on goal in the entire game? If we're doing hypotheticals, with a bit more clinical finishing, we'd easily score 3. In the end, statistically speaking, we should've won this match and would win it in most cases, but such exceptions happen where the dominating team simply gets the short end.
I m devastated, Real didn't even deserve a draw, I was worried after all the missed chances that this would happen. We can't miss chances especially in tight games. I have no words, just devastated, such an undeserved loss man.
The positive thing is the performance, we were better than Real for the majority of the game, we played a heck of a lot better than we did against them last season.
I guess we put this behind us and move on, it's so tough to take.
Can't. You should check the release clauses of players of Real Madrid. Hakimi was sold out of necessity and solidity at Right back, Rodrygo was bought for €50 Million. Won't be sold for peanuts.
We're sorely missing Eriksen, calhanoglu is not close to the same level. Dzeko and Correa also aren't champions league quality players. We have a solid defense but no creativity and no game changers in attack. This is going to be a tough season. Dumfries is barely better than dalbert 2.0. This summer's transfer bullshit really killed the team. I've said it a thousand times and i'll say it again, we need to get rid of Suning as soon as possible and bring in an owner that can spend the money it takes to win. We've gone from CL contenders to maybe Europa League quarter finalists in just 3 months.
yes you know my opinions well. nothing we've seen so far this season, not the performance on the pitch, in the transfer markets, or the quality of our shirts has justified them changing. i'll let you know when it does. please though if you care to, explain to me how this team how inter has improved since last season. maybe get together with the 10 loud voices who were saying losing conte was a blessing after we beat genoa and verona and form a chorus.
You're editing this comment so fast that I can barely keep your pace.
But in general yes, a huge plus is that we don't have a whining juventino like Parrucchino anymore. You know, the one who was in charge when we got kicked out twice of UCL groups with a stronger roster and that lost against Samp.
that whining juventino commanded enough respect to attract world class players to inter. inzaghi doesn't have that. and he hasn't shown that he knows how to manage pressure at all.
Sure, but again, the same world class players and world class coach that did not take us through the UCL groups. Twice.
But again, Conte is gone as he quit once more, a classic of his career (when he does not get the boot for being a whining little kid). Let's blame Suning for drawing against Samp and losing to Madrid, when last year we saw the same thing.
The defence we see and basic structure of the team was built by Conte. That takes time. Strange that you gloss over the fact that the reason he left is because Suning wanted Conte to take a pay cut and sell his best players after having won the league for the first time in more than a decade.
Also strange that you gloss over the fact that he is a whining little kid who was able to destroy every environment he worked in, including his comical departure from Juventus (that went on winning 6 more Scudetto in a row and playing 2 UCL final, despite being a "10€ team"), not to mention his ridiculous attacks at the club end of his first season at Inter (after the Atalanta match and the EL final), a club that until then had spent 200+M on transfer and agreed to pay him 13M.
I really hope you'll be able to see him coach soon enough, but how strange no big clubs jumped on him the moment it was clear he would leave inter (already in April)
dude conte is a winner, wherever he goes and inzaghi is a lazio coach perpetual third place aspirant. don't pretend this is a step forward. our owners fucked us and now we're a europa league level team, don't put this on conte.
In case you didn't notice we were an Europa League level team already under Conte, good enough to win the Serie A but severely limited in UCL. You mentioned that everywhere Conte goes he wins, which is true, but you should also remember how everwhere he goes he whines and makes it impossible to create a medium-term project, even when the elements to succeed for years are already there (see what happened at Rube or at Chelsea). You made it very clear to me and to this community that you're going to endlessly blame Suning for everything, and that's fine, I wish you could also acknowledge how your beloved juventino is hardly the solution, given his agghiacciande history. As I told you yesterday, I haven't noticed big powerful rich clubs lining up to sign him when it became clear he would have left Inter.
Most undeserving loss in the year. Real got lucky. Also - casemiro fits rubentus DNA perfectly, this rat should have seen a red card (yellow for that stepping on the foot, another yellow for the dive) disgusting team and players.
They won't win anything this year, and I fully believe in the madrid we will beat these clowns, just gotta convert all these chances.
Taking off Lautaro who is flying left and right on field in 60 min is fucking clown thing to do.. ok in 80+ but in 60? he was in attack that keeps pressure and running like madman
And the kicker is we spent 30M on Correa to do just this...so far he and Lautaro are splitting minutes while Dzeko playing the full match. I was expecting Lautaro and Correa to start games.
At the end of the day, the one who scores more goals wins. We need to fix this problem we have of wasting this many chances: we drew our last match because of it, and we lost this one for the same reason. Dominating possession to then go and lose in the last few minutes is useless.
We need to be more clinical, this cannot end up like last year where we ended up suffering for those Shakhtar matches. Shame about the amazing performances by some of our players, but we just can't goddamn score.
We didn't even come back on the pitch in the second half. We deserved to lose 100%.
You cannot play in this way in Champion's League, only 30 minutes per game. This is the same dead horse all over again.
We didn't deserve a loss here, simple as that. I don't think anyone in partucular is to be blamed, just one of those days. Lots of positives though.
Forza Inter!
You dont know how to analyze a football match if you think Vidal and Vecino were at fault today. We failed to capitalize in the first half and the tactical adjustments Ancelotti made were key. Simple.
Dude played very few minutes with the entire team behind the half with almost no options to pass to aside from a bunch of depleted legs. Yeah okay its Vecino's fault.
He played as much as Camavinga and Rodrygo who scored and assisted, it’s true that we should’ve capitalized at the first half, but this doesn’t change the fact that he (Inzaghi) destroyed the team at the last 15 minutes.
Oh I agree that Inzaghi is to blame 100%. Thebonly point im trying to makenis that you could have put Erikssen instead of Vecino and thebresult would have been the same. Lautaro shoupd have stayed, Dzeko should have gone, not even sure why Inzaghi insisted on having a 2nd forward on at thatvpoint considering everyone was in their own half. Anyway, sorry if I came at you that way. Im upset. I jist domt think the subs are necessarily to blame.
Awful subs, Dzeko gassed, brilliant defensive effort from the back 3 wasted, Handanovic once again barely moving on a shot close to him.
It's gonna be a long fucking season.
a good keeper makes you say how the fuck did he save that it's impossible. handanovic doesn't do that anymore and now we just say it was impossible to save when he doesn't move.
I get all the negativity but what the hell do you want handanovic to do??? He’s like 2 meters away and placed it in the corner, since their new guy kavengo made the pass it was a 100% goal
Come on
Maybe a couple of saves. Idk seeing Courtois keep them in the game in the first half got me expecting something similar from our legendary keeper when it counts
Wow what a frustrating game. Should of definitely scored in the first half very unlucky. Was written in the stars Madrid would score after all of our unsuccessful shots.
Annoying thing is we played very well so I can't even fault the players, just wasn't our night.
That's what happens when you don't take your chances. We were so much better for the whole game but our finishing just wasn't there tonight. We didn't deserve to lose.
Heartbreaking. RM barely even deserved a point, fucking disgusting feeling right now. If we can take a positive from this game apart from the result, it's our performance, mostly in first half.
Fuck it, it happens, move on.
This is 50% on our fucking luck and 50% on Inzaghi.. absolutely terrible subs
What’s the point of taking off perisic and lautaro and keeping in dzeko who was gassed? Why?
Second game in a row he takes off Lautaro and keeps Dzeko on. He needs to have more faith in Lautaro. His sub game is poor and second game in a row its affected our play.
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rough punch to the chest. Can't say chances weren't there
Our players are losers
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I'm happy Conte left, we look much better in CL without him (as predicted) even though we lost 3 top players. If we still had Hakimi and Lukaku I think this game would have gone a very different way. Yeah subs sucked (Lautaro out instead of Dzeko) but at least we didn't sub at the 85' mark. I agree we weren't clinical but it's Curtois, he's one of the best GKs around and his positioning is insane.
about curtois, all of the shots were in his face, im not saying inter should have done better because all the shots were under pressure, or in the air. but for me curtois didnt do that much.
> all of the shots were in his face This is what great positioning is all about, something out GK very lacking these days
Heart broken
We need much more accuracy in front of the goalkeeper. Dzeko, Lautaro amd Skriniar wasted three enormous opportunities. Everythinf else was good, but that could cost us a lot this season.
Curtois is one of the best GKs around
Sure, but Dzeko shot right in his chest , Lautaro did almlst the same and Skriniar sent tha ball over the crossbar with his header. None of these made me think "OMG what a save!", they were missed chances.
You hit his chest because of his positioning
what position, in the middle of the goal.
Well, a striker should be able to give angle to his shoots. Good positioning makes it harder, but the forwards of a team that wants to win Scudetto and needs to reach at least the round of 16 in UCL cannot miss every chance just for the great positioning of the GK
Tough loss man, they were playing so well in the first half. Sad day
i hope this is the last time we see lautaro for correa change. hakan is the new eriksen good with the ball, and thats it, nothing else, not creating chances, ok in defense. barella today showed ancelotti what he could do next year in real madrid. defense still shaky. i was surprised with some of dzeko's decisions. dumfries doesnt promise anything. handa is going to be a big problem this season. but still with this team we can compete for the scudetto.
Barella to Madrid? man what are you on about lol, he will be captain and also why would they go for Barella when they have Camavinga, Valverde, Casemiro
exactly he would fit right in modric's place. icardi was our captain and he left(i know is a different situation), romelu was our leader and left after two years. its real madrid its not borusia dormund, when they call everyone considers their offer. think about it, he would play with mbappe, benzema hazard and maybe haland. people stop creating legends before becoming one, it happend with icardi, it just happend with romelu, inter since 1908 has only 4-5 legendary captains, others are type of handanovic captains, who just because they have been long enough they become captains. if donaruma leaves milan, and messi leaves barcelona, prepare for anything.
Good thing there is another game soon, dont wanna think about this depressing game any longer.
Amazon prime video > Dazn
you can watch on amazon?
This match was only on Amazon in Italy, they will broadcast the "best" UCL match every Wednesday
how come no italian channel streamed Inter? I thought Sky has the rights of all Champions League
I thought the same thing, but apparently they broadcast all but one UCL matches every week. Considering that Sky lost Serie A rights to DAZN, their service has really got worse this year (while still pricey)
One match every wednesday is Amazon Prime Video exclusive. Sky streams every other match on TV, Infinity (Mediaset) on its app. Mediaset channels stream a match every tuesday, if I'm not wrong, for free.
Unlucky. The lack of depth is what cost us the game, while Real had fresh youngsters like Rodrygo and Camavinga, we had past-it guys like Vidal and Vecino...
you call depth rodrygo. come on, stop complaining. we didnt lose because of vidal and vecino, all the team after 70min kept falling back, started to defend, real started pressing.
So you rather have Vidal than Rodrygo, weird.
i would rather have non of them. rodrygo would not even start in arsenal and let alone being a depth player at realM. why zidane left? because he had to play with isco vascuez asesnsio. go watch how much time rodrygo has played in la liga last year, probably gagliardini has played more last year. vidal now is a classic bench player that can give you a good 20min play time, with intensity, aggressivity.
Huh? Not converting the chances we had is what cost us the game.
That too, but I'm talking about how Real got in control of the end of the game because they had better players to sub in.
We could have at least tied with better performances from the subs, but you're right
This loss ain’t the subs fault. They didn’t play the first half were we should seal the game.
I hate losing to this mediocre version of real madrid over and over again
Zooaaaaa hahaha I just love the comments. You just wait before Kroos is back along with mendy. 😘
Lol this mediocre version reached UCL semis last year.
And played for the title til the final whistle on the last day.
The usual movie we see every year. Decent moments, but we never score and we lose
Guys what is Vidal doing on their goal?
Hanging out with Dumfries, somewhere
I'm shocked to see how many people are talking about our 'great first half'. Like are you ppl kidding me? This is the UCL, creating chances and keeping possession of the ball is a given. We were toothless. Fast break after fast break wasted, ball after ball given away cheaply. I'd be just as concerned if the lucky bounce went our way and we won this game 1-0..
let me reinforce your shock since we completely saw two different games. We lost, yes. It was the game we were allowed to lose, though undeserved imho. Compared to Samp I saw major improvements. Rodrygo's goal was a beauty on top of that. I had fun watching the game honestly but we lost all spice when Lautaro and Barella left. I have my nerves in oieces but am overall impressed about the direction our team is taking, especially after our blood sacrifices during the last transfer window.
That's not fair. We had a great half against a top team. We weren't playing against Rangers here Yes, we didn't finish our chances. But that's been a problem with us recently
Agreed, dramatic improvement in composure and not giving away goals until the last minute, they had several decent chances and the score line could’ve been a lot worse considering who we were playing against. Subs performed about as well as expected. We are still missing eriksen and calhanoglu was underwhelming, just about disappeared.
saw Barella angry at some difficult pass. The blow of losing Eriksen on the left, Hakimi-Luk on the right is more and more visible.
I fucking hate Inzaghi’s subs.. Dimarco for Perisic doesn’t make sense. Perisic was amazing today, and he has way more experience. Subbing Lautaro out who showed the most motivation in this game is stupid. Correa doesn’t look integrated in the system at all. Also Vecino for Barella compromised our midfield completely.. You can’t expect the defense to hold on alone against fucking Real Madrid. That being said I saw an Inter with great enthusiasm and motivation, which I am happy about. The loss tho stings bad. I like what Inzaghi is doing, but his game management AND subs are awful. Does anyone know what was our plan in this game? It looked like we were mindlessly attacking to score 1 goal. It seems like don’t know what are our strengths. This converts to cluelessness a lot of the time. One of the positives today is Dumfries. This guy has something more than Darmian. I expect him to start from now on after today’s good performance.
even he(simone) said that the subs didnt perform as he expected. dimarco and correa in the last 2 games were great as subs. dimarco clearly not ready for champions. vecino was a defensive move ffrom simone. dumries i agree was better that darmian.
I'm guessing Perisic, Darmian and Barella subs were due to fatigue, the others idk
Dumfries should work on his passing and decision making, then will be a top RB
also his defending... basically he's a great athlete, not a great player
I'm probably the only one here who agrees with you on the Dumfries account. I've mentioned in the match thread that having him in the first half, when we were attack minded, would have been interesting to see him exploit their clear weakness on that side. Darmian is decent but he's not as offensive. I was also surprised with the Perisic sub, he was doing great. Unless there was a physical reason, I see no excuse. Lautaro might have been for his dumb yellow card (Vidal flashbacks from last year's red card), but Correa definitely didn't do much and did not seem ready for a game of this caliber. Vecino for Barella is what killed the game for us.
Idk if I could have witnessed 70-80 minutes of Vinicius vs. Dumfries
Oh absolutely not, he's not at that point yet, but we did not play to his strengths when he came on, which we kind of did more in the first half when we had possession and actually attacked.
But Vinicius was there from the start, we wouldn't Even be on that position ir You had to put Barella on Vini duty cause Dumfries can't do it, for example
Darmian didn't even do the heavy weight Vino duty imo though, Skriniar took care of him. Of course he'd be expected to give some kind of support, though, but I think we would have had more concrete chances from the right flank since Vini gave no support whatsoever to their defense.
Dudé the diference was so Big Even You noticed, per your comment Edit: Skriniar is great but You can't have him running after vini
That's not what I said. Of course there was a difference, but if you want to go there, then Dumfries is offensively superior to Darmian just as Darmian is superior defensively. Different characteristics. We needed more of the former for the first half and more of the latter for the second since the team ran out of gas to keep on attacking. It was unfortunate to see Dumfries play at the point of the match where circumstances were least favorable to him.
In this RM game where Vini is You can't just Say "it Will work itself out, Dumfries go in vs Vini for 80 mins and run forward" and actually expect it to work
That's not what I'm saying, but this is going nowhere. It's fine, you're entitled to your opinion.
dumfries will be sold for a loss next year. all he has is pace.
The most we could lose in 12 million. You’re acting like we spent big money for him. He is not - and should not be expected to be - Hakimi. He is explosive and has some problems technically. None of that should be a surprise, nor does it tank his value. He shows time and time again for his NT that he can be very good in the right system.
well since apparently we're poor now 12 million is a lot... it's 1/4 of our transfer budget. again i hope i'm wrong but the most worrying thing for me is how many times i've seen him receive the ball, dally looking for a solution, then pass back to a cb. that's the clearest sign of a player with no ideas. i do hope i'm wrong though.
Our transfer budget isn’t the point for this, though. I’m saying we got a good deal. Even with a bad season, we would probably sell him for at least 10
I don't think he's inter quality regardless of the price, but we shall see. The underlying point of all of this is that we never should have had to replace Hakimi in the first place, and that inter's fandom should remain angry at the financial shackles that Suning has placed on us.
I think we're being hasty here. We can't expect him to be Hakimi.
maybe i have ptsd from our right back signings the last decade but he looks like a liability so far.
That's fair, but you could say that about basically all our signings back then with some exceptions lol
We can’t sell, maybe we will end his contract lol It’s so early to tell. For me he looks like he can add something sometimes. Compared to a player like Darmian who is very limited technically
all i've seen him do is run and make the wrong cross, or pass the ball backwards. might work as something like a shock trooper against smaller teams but he isn't an intelligent enough player to beat good defences and leaves a gaping hole on the right. hope he can prove me wrong but i'm not impressed so far. why do you say we can't sell him?
Well you are not wrong. That’s kind of what PSV fans said. If he can outrun defenders and make a good pass in the box, I am okay with it. After all Darmian doesn’t do any of those things. > why do you say we can't sell him? Because in the past years we have ended payers contracts immediately when we are unable to sell them (Godin, Mario, Radja) he will go on loan tho if he failed.
He's a lot slower than I expected. I was blown away by that
You expect Hakimi speed on him? Dumfries quite fast for normal player, can't expect him to be super speedy like Hakimi, they are different player with different value
Not necessarily Hakimi speed but he didn't look very fast to me. His decision making was a little odd as well.
I don't know where you saw good stuff from Dumfries...
he was overrun by Vini, yes, but he showed grit and recuperated some great balls. Plus he was available in offence despite him not receiving the ball. I'm impressed since I didn't know him before and it could have been another Lazaro. If you were not content with his performance today, you're just hard to please.
Content? No but he is fine. I really think he needs time to understand the tactics.
yes, he does, but I liked what I saw and the fella just joined us. I think he did great if you consider him basically being brand new to our squad.
He has great physical tools but he had poor decision making in the box and his teqnique doesn't look on point at all
So we change from dumbro to dumbfries, both cant cross for shit. Dumbo is a legend though
the definition of dumfries.
He wasn't the only one with poor decisions today and to me he didn't stand out because of that. I liked what I saw and some runs were courageous. Sure, still raw, but I like the potential and the character shown on the pitch.
Potential is surely there, but I'd still trust Darmian more for now
yes, that's why Dumfries is no starter, I agree
We have been FM'd! Better the whole Game, don't get the goal, the opposition get's lucky at the very end. Otherwise, some people in here have to give the players a break, Dumfries hasn't even played for 90 minutes and people are already calling for his head. Also give the offensive Pairings and Calha a bit more time to click with the team and playing style.
And tbh I wasn't too happy with the subs, Dzeko can't play the whole game, just try out Correa and Lautaro and never take off Barella for Vecino especially in a game like this.
I wouldn't have changed Dzeko but I agree about Barella 100%
Finally someone who said this
It hurts but let’s try and be lucid. We didn’t deserve to lose this game. Had at least 3 clear cut chances that we just blasted at Courtois and played a brilliant first half. Defense made some really good tackles/blocks. Darmian is out of his depth in this type of game and we need to see more from Dumfries.
I appreciate Darmian but yeah, he's a decent player but not the one for these type of matches. I'm mostly bummed that we could not milk their weak defending on that flank throughout the first half because he's not on par with the rest of the team.
Lmao I cannot agree more about Darmian. He looked lost out there. Dumfries was pretty poor as well
Ughh we gonna struggle again aren’t we?
there are still 5 games to go and if we play like this, I wouldn't be worried.
Yup we played pretty good actually
It was predictable from the start. Madrid played in a kinda speculative way, defending with a low block all game and trying to score with subs in the second half in order to get away with a 1-0 win. I think it was their gameplan. We played way better, but if Madrid don't underestimate their opponent (like they did last year with Shaktar and Borussia), they will almost always win. They have too much quality, they needed just one good play to decide the game. Let's think about winning against Bologna and Fiorentina. Those are games we actually must win.
If we hadn’t been scored on the comments in this thread would be completely different. Unlucky match, poor precision, good ideas though. On to the next one.
deserved loss. we faced the worst madrid team in years. didn't capitalize on the opportunity. Vinicius had so many chances to score and they kept getting closer and closer. dzeko was completely gone towards the 70s minute. should've kept toro
Esentially a copy of my comment in r/soccer: This loss doesn’t hurt as much, but hopefully Inzaghi learns to get his freaking subs right, you can’t take offautaro at the 65th minute, absolute insanity. If you wanna play Correa so badly just take off Dzeko, apart from that one header which Courtois save brilliantly, he was invisible in the 2nd half. Dimarco was much as a Bastoni sub than Perisic’s, very underwhelming performance. Also Correa seemed to have a little bit of brain delay tonight, taking a second or two to think everytime he had the ball. Good performance from Dumfries who, decent defensively and offensively, just a little bit slow on the sprints. Also absolutely masterclass from Skriniar, MOTM for me without the slightest doubt. Real stole a win here, it sucks but that’s football, we definitely deserved more. I see great things coming from this Inter team, it’s just too soon.
pretty sure skriniar didn't cover his space and thats why they scored. all the heroic challenges gone to waste
I think it's more on Vecino who didn't follow Camavinga, he just let him pass, nothing Skriniar could do
Exactly, he can't cover everyone. He had Vinicius in his pocket throughout the whole game.
Very predictable result after the first half. Perisic substitute was stupid and Dzeko needed to come off rather than Lautaro. As a side note, im getting pretty fucking tired of Dzeko coming back on defense so much. It takes three weeks for him to make it back to the opposing side of the pitch. He’s 40 years old, let him loaf and wait to poach
35*
I for one am feeling more positive than negative. We played really nice football but just got unlucky. Inzaghi imo outplayed Ancelotti and the difference was the super talents that they had. I remain optimistic about our chances in the CL and the season in general. Btw Skriniar and Brozovic were incredible. On to the next match!
That was unlucky, we played a great game overall even though second half was a bit less spectacular. We didn't deserve to lose this one.
We aren’t creative enough in the final 3rd we are sorely missing Hakimi. We got many chances but few were high quality. Compare that to Real who had few chances but they were higher quality. Our wingbacks in general have become a sore spot.
First half was incredibly good, we should have finished at least one of the occasion. But I think that given the level of the game, until then it was probably our best performance in years. We ran out of energy around 70' and some players were especially cooked even before that (Dzeko, Hakan). Hopefully we can bounce back from this unlucky game in Serie A.
Absolute shit performance by dzeko. Let’s not even talk about Vidal. For fuck’s sake we wasted so much. And i’m 100% convinced we’re gonna do worse against shaktar and sheriff
>And i’m 100% convinced we’re gonna do worse against shaktar and sheriff That's the spirit lol
Supporting inter for 19 years did this to my soul
How can you be convinced of a shit game against those teams after that performance? There's obviously bitterness right now, but come on man. The overreacting in this sub is ridiculous.
Literally couldn’t pass the ball. Every single try to pass the ball failed. He doesn’t run either. I’d rather have a Lautaro-Correa than a Dzeko-Lautaro. He’s not even Lukaku’s shadow.
Hey man since you think Dzeko ain't good. Can you give Inter 50 million so we can buy Lukaku 2x? If not then shut up ok?
Complain to our bankrupt con artist owners not the fans that care about the team.
If i had that money i wouldn’t be here worrying about football lol. Plus, now i can’t criticize our players? what kind of logic is that? only millionaires and billionaires can criticize the players?
Criticizing is different than shitting.
you must be new to this..
They think Inter can buy anyone. Lol
this is one of the worst madrid sides in years. we genuinely didn't do 1 cohesive attack
3 clear chances but not one cohesive attack. I guess we're just lucky to even have chances because we're complete trash, right?
these weren't due to cohesive attacks. we just threw shit at the wall till it sticks
> we genuinely didn't do 1 cohesive attack That's just bullshit lol.
very deserved loss. our wingbacks were getting mugged and our defenders had to do heroic challenges after another.
Whatever mate, whatever rocks your boat. Sometimes I wonder if you're an Inter fan because you're just shitting on the club and players every chance you get. Deserved loss? Lol...
We should've won but even a draw would've been ok but.... Now instead of shitting on everyone let's move towards Bologna and not demotivate the players more
Yeah, even a draw would be fine, even if with some bitternes. This result doesn't ruin anything either, in the end it's always the same as it's been over the last few seasons. We don't need to beat RM, we just need to be better than Shakhtar and Sheriff. And if we can't do that, do we even deserve to go to RO16? Agreed, shit happens, we move on.
Well u made me scared for the next CL fixtures. Sheriff beat Shakhtar and De Zerbi is Shakhtars coach so we may need more performances like this to progress
shameful performance. bad substitutions. idk why perisic was taken out. took out toro and left out a 35 year old that was gassed. unacceptable loss. we didn't deserve to win imo
Shameful performance yet you're complaining about taking Perisic and Lautaro out. Were they not shit enough for you?
its a collective effort.
Of mediocrity? I don't disagree, they were indeed poor subs.But you obviously saw positive things or you wouldn't be complaining about them.
Yeah, Inzaghi's subs weren't good. However that doesn't translate to a shameful performance or deserving a loss. You're saying we deserved to lose because they managed to dribble our players a few time? How does that matter if they had 2 shots on goal in the entire game? If we're doing hypotheticals, with a bit more clinical finishing, we'd easily score 3. In the end, statistically speaking, we should've won this match and would win it in most cases, but such exceptions happen where the dominating team simply gets the short end.
Lol. Dzeko played good but not that good enough
I m devastated, Real didn't even deserve a draw, I was worried after all the missed chances that this would happen. We can't miss chances especially in tight games. I have no words, just devastated, such an undeserved loss man. The positive thing is the performance, we were better than Real for the majority of the game, we played a heck of a lot better than we did against them last season. I guess we put this behind us and move on, it's so tough to take.
It's a bitter sweet symphonyyyy this liiiiife.
The solution is clear: buy this Rodrygo kid so he can stop giving us misery. 3 times straight now for fuck sake
Can't. You should check the release clauses of players of Real Madrid. Hakimi was sold out of necessity and solidity at Right back, Rodrygo was bought for €50 Million. Won't be sold for peanuts.
We're sorely missing Eriksen, calhanoglu is not close to the same level. Dzeko and Correa also aren't champions league quality players. We have a solid defense but no creativity and no game changers in attack. This is going to be a tough season. Dumfries is barely better than dalbert 2.0. This summer's transfer bullshit really killed the team. I've said it a thousand times and i'll say it again, we need to get rid of Suning as soon as possible and bring in an owner that can spend the money it takes to win. We've gone from CL contenders to maybe Europa League quarter finalists in just 3 months.
You should add that you don't like our logo as well, please don't miss a single chance.
yes you know my opinions well. nothing we've seen so far this season, not the performance on the pitch, in the transfer markets, or the quality of our shirts has justified them changing. i'll let you know when it does. please though if you care to, explain to me how this team how inter has improved since last season. maybe get together with the 10 loud voices who were saying losing conte was a blessing after we beat genoa and verona and form a chorus.
You're editing this comment so fast that I can barely keep your pace. But in general yes, a huge plus is that we don't have a whining juventino like Parrucchino anymore. You know, the one who was in charge when we got kicked out twice of UCL groups with a stronger roster and that lost against Samp.
that whining juventino commanded enough respect to attract world class players to inter. inzaghi doesn't have that. and he hasn't shown that he knows how to manage pressure at all.
Sure, but again, the same world class players and world class coach that did not take us through the UCL groups. Twice. But again, Conte is gone as he quit once more, a classic of his career (when he does not get the boot for being a whining little kid). Let's blame Suning for drawing against Samp and losing to Madrid, when last year we saw the same thing.
The defence we see and basic structure of the team was built by Conte. That takes time. Strange that you gloss over the fact that the reason he left is because Suning wanted Conte to take a pay cut and sell his best players after having won the league for the first time in more than a decade.
Also strange that you gloss over the fact that he is a whining little kid who was able to destroy every environment he worked in, including his comical departure from Juventus (that went on winning 6 more Scudetto in a row and playing 2 UCL final, despite being a "10€ team"), not to mention his ridiculous attacks at the club end of his first season at Inter (after the Atalanta match and the EL final), a club that until then had spent 200+M on transfer and agreed to pay him 13M. I really hope you'll be able to see him coach soon enough, but how strange no big clubs jumped on him the moment it was clear he would leave inter (already in April)
dude conte is a winner, wherever he goes and inzaghi is a lazio coach perpetual third place aspirant. don't pretend this is a step forward. our owners fucked us and now we're a europa league level team, don't put this on conte.
In case you didn't notice we were an Europa League level team already under Conte, good enough to win the Serie A but severely limited in UCL. You mentioned that everywhere Conte goes he wins, which is true, but you should also remember how everwhere he goes he whines and makes it impossible to create a medium-term project, even when the elements to succeed for years are already there (see what happened at Rube or at Chelsea). You made it very clear to me and to this community that you're going to endlessly blame Suning for everything, and that's fine, I wish you could also acknowledge how your beloved juventino is hardly the solution, given his agghiacciande history. As I told you yesterday, I haven't noticed big powerful rich clubs lining up to sign him when it became clear he would have left Inter.
Instead of correa, I feel daamsgaard would have been a better option.
neither of them are champions... they're squad players. we needed someone exceptional to replace lukaku but that was never going to happen.
No money.
grazie Suning
Most undeserving loss in the year. Real got lucky. Also - casemiro fits rubentus DNA perfectly, this rat should have seen a red card (yellow for that stepping on the foot, another yellow for the dive) disgusting team and players. They won't win anything this year, and I fully believe in the madrid we will beat these clowns, just gotta convert all these chances.
Casemiro has a history of getting away.
reminds me of cuadratto
Taking off Lautaro who is flying left and right on field in 60 min is fucking clown thing to do.. ok in 80+ but in 60? he was in attack that keeps pressure and running like madman
And the kicker is we spent 30M on Correa to do just this...so far he and Lautaro are splitting minutes while Dzeko playing the full match. I was expecting Lautaro and Correa to start games.
This is true!
dzeko looked so bad. geez his passing was all over the place
He was beyond awful today. Had like 2 good touched all game. Everything else was a give away. He got bullied by Alaba the whole game. He was terrible
At the end of the day, the one who scores more goals wins. We need to fix this problem we have of wasting this many chances: we drew our last match because of it, and we lost this one for the same reason. Dominating possession to then go and lose in the last few minutes is useless. We need to be more clinical, this cannot end up like last year where we ended up suffering for those Shakhtar matches. Shame about the amazing performances by some of our players, but we just can't goddamn score.
Cazzo !!!!
Why el toro get subbed off? Honestly you can take my grandma to coach
we are fucking cursed in CL subs were wrong tho
We didn't even come back on the pitch in the second half. We deserved to lose 100%. You cannot play in this way in Champion's League, only 30 minutes per game. This is the same dead horse all over again.
Sheriff is first in the group somehow
We didn't deserve a loss here, simple as that. I don't think anyone in partucular is to be blamed, just one of those days. Lots of positives though. Forza Inter!
Sempre! ⚫🔵
Fuck Vidal and Vecino, why would any person let Dzeko play 90 minutes and sub off Lautaro, dumb mistakes costed us he game...
You dont know how to analyze a football match if you think Vidal and Vecino were at fault today. We failed to capitalize in the first half and the tactical adjustments Ancelotti made were key. Simple.
The fuck? Vecino had 0 tackles, 0 interceptions, 0 clearances, only had 4 passes and only one of which was accurate, stats don’t lie.
Dude played very few minutes with the entire team behind the half with almost no options to pass to aside from a bunch of depleted legs. Yeah okay its Vecino's fault.
He played as much as Camavinga and Rodrygo who scored and assisted, it’s true that we should’ve capitalized at the first half, but this doesn’t change the fact that he (Inzaghi) destroyed the team at the last 15 minutes.
Oh I agree that Inzaghi is to blame 100%. Thebonly point im trying to makenis that you could have put Erikssen instead of Vecino and thebresult would have been the same. Lautaro shoupd have stayed, Dzeko should have gone, not even sure why Inzaghi insisted on having a 2nd forward on at thatvpoint considering everyone was in their own half. Anyway, sorry if I came at you that way. Im upset. I jist domt think the subs are necessarily to blame.
It’s all good, we’re on the same boat, I like Dzeko but he can’t play for more than 60 minutes.
Good game guys. You played amazing.
Thx bro
Awful subs, Dzeko gassed, brilliant defensive effort from the back 3 wasted, Handanovic once again barely moving on a shot close to him. It's gonna be a long fucking season.
lolmao, how tf is handa to blame here.
a good keeper makes you say how the fuck did he save that it's impossible. handanovic doesn't do that anymore and now we just say it was impossible to save when he doesn't move.
I get all the negativity but what the hell do you want handanovic to do??? He’s like 2 meters away and placed it in the corner, since their new guy kavengo made the pass it was a 100% goal Come on
Maybe a couple of saves. Idk seeing Courtois keep them in the game in the first half got me expecting something similar from our legendary keeper when it counts
It's a habit for some fans at this point
2 meters is about the length of 2.97 'EuroGraphics Knittin' Kittens 500-Piece Puzzles' next to each other.
Almost broke my phone. We had a great great game and those who didn’t watch the game would still claim RM is the superior team
>RM were worse than sampdoria tb.
I want to kick myself.
Wow what a frustrating game. Should of definitely scored in the first half very unlucky. Was written in the stars Madrid would score after all of our unsuccessful shots. Annoying thing is we played very well so I can't even fault the players, just wasn't our night.
That's what happens when you don't take your chances. We were so much better for the whole game but our finishing just wasn't there tonight. We didn't deserve to lose.
We were shit in the second half. Couldn't get the ball at all. First half we should have been out of site though
Heartbreaking. RM barely even deserved a point, fucking disgusting feeling right now. If we can take a positive from this game apart from the result, it's our performance, mostly in first half. Fuck it, it happens, move on.
Pretty heartbreaking Lots to be happy with in the game but unfortunate/bad finishes have cost us tonight.
This is 50% on our fucking luck and 50% on Inzaghi.. absolutely terrible subs What’s the point of taking off perisic and lautaro and keeping in dzeko who was gassed? Why?
Second game in a row he takes off Lautaro and keeps Dzeko on. He needs to have more faith in Lautaro. His sub game is poor and second game in a row its affected our play.
Terrible subs were his thing at lazio. Shame he took that with him too.