Simone Inzaghi The Inter Milan coach described Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final clash against Lisbon’s Benfica as a “head and heart match”.
“We will alternate offensive and defensive phases. Benfica is not obsessed with pressing and it will be a game of head and heart. I have no doubts about the heart. The team has always put it on the field. As far as the head is worried, you don’t have to think about episodes or bad luck, but instead look ahead”, declared Inzaghi in the press conference before tomorrow’s game at Da Luz.
“This is a quality team, with technical players. They occupy the spaces well and they all help each other on the field with a lot of runs. They have lost only two games since the beginning of the year, so we have to be good at playing our game,” added the Inter coach.
Despite praising the rivals, Inzaghi issued a warning: “Benfica have not lost this year in the Champions League, They scored 23 goals and are a quality team. But we’re Inter, we prepared well.”
A two-faced Inter
Inter offered two different faces in Serie A and in the Champions League, where they eliminated another Portuguese team such as Porto in the round of 16 and where he was classified in the group of deathe, leaving Barcelona.
The key to this difference for Inzaghi lies only in the result: “With Fiorentina, Salernitana and Juventus, we deserve to win.”
“We have to do more, even if the calendar and the tight times between games will not help us. As a coach, I am happy with what the team is doing. We are clearly not satisfied with the results, ” said Inzaghi.
Without Çalhanoglu or Skriniar
The technician cannot rely on the Turk Hakim Calhanoglu, starting midfielder, or the Slovakian Milan Screenr, starting centre-back, both injured.
“They are two very important players, although there are also some absences in Benfica. I would have liked to play it with two complete teams”, Inzaghi sentence.
Source: La Verdad
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