Calhanoglu on ‘painful’ defeat to Milan: “I don’t want to talk about it anymore because it bothers me”

Inter midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu refused to give much comment when asked how he feels after Saturday night’s 3-2 derby defeat against AC Milan.

After seeing his former team-mates celebrating their Scudetto win at the end of last season Calhanoglu will have wanted to exact his own bit of revenge by winning the crunch clash at San Siro over the weekend, however Milan ran out 3-2 winners and the Turk gave the ball away cheaply leading to Leao’s equaliser in the first half.

There were more interesting bits to come out from the game too. MilanNews reported that Pioli hung a photo of Calhanoglu with the quote ‘We have fire inside’ (which he said before the game) to motivate his team, while there was also an angry exchange involving Theo Hernandez.

Calhanoglu spoke at the press conference on the eve of Inter’s Champions League match against Bayern Munich and he was asked for his reaction to the loss against the Rossoneri.

“The derby is over, I don’t want to talk about it anymore because it bothers me. It’s painful, I know, but it’s over,” he said (via MilanNews).