Whether AC Milan winning the derby was the right result has already generated a lot of debate, but one man who thinks the final scoreline was unfair is Inter’s Simone Inzaghi.
Nobody can argue with the idea that Inter were the better side throughout the opening 45 minutes as they generated a number of clear cut scoring opportunities but were only able to convert one of them when Ivan Perisic scored from a corner.
However, Milan hung in there and in the final 16 minutes of the game things changed dramatically. First Olivier Giroud equalised with an instinctive finish from a deflected Brahim Diaz shot, and then he span Stefan de Vrij before firing into the bottom corner to win the spoils.
Inzaghi was interviewed by DAZN after seeing his side toss away a lead in the last 20 minutes of the match, and he didn’t hide his feeling that the Nerazzurri were unfortunate to lose a game that they ‘dominated’.
“I saw a derby dominated far and wide, with the only defect of not having scored a second goal. Losing like this hurts, it’s a hard and burning lesson,” he said (via MilanNews).
“My players got nervous at 1-1 because there was an obvious foul on Sanchez. But there we already had to be home at 2 or 3-0. If you play it 10 times, a game like this you lose only once. Our mistake was not having closed the game, and not having continued to play the game after 70 minutes.”
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