Inter head coach Simone Inzaghi has admitted that it ‘burns’ that his side lost the derby against AC Milan tonight at San Siro.
Milan took the share of the spoils from the derby as they beat Inter 3-2 in a thrilling derby. It was Inter who took an early lead with Marcelo Brozovic capitalised on a defensive error but the equaliser came less than ten minutes later when Rafael Leao finished past Samir Handanovic.
The second half produced yet more drama when Olivier Giroud finished first time to get yet another goal in the derby, and then Leao registered a brace to make it 3-1, with Edin Dzeko’s late goal creating a nervy finish.
Inzaghi spoke to DAZN at the end of the derby game to reflect on the performance from his side and the result, with his comments relayed by MilanNews and translated below.
“At the beginning it was a balanced match, then we scored an excellent goal. After the equaliser we had a half-hour blackout that cost us two goals. We scored two beautiful goals, their three goals are goals not to concede. With what we created we would have deserved the same, but that half hour left something to be desired and we could have done better,” he said.
“To win a derby you have to do more, half an hour is not enough. In that empty passage, Milan scored three goals, we only managed to score one.
“Managing the moments is too important for our team, we must not have these blackouts that decided the match against opponents of absolute value such as Milan and Lazio. To score the two goals we had to do a lot of things under construction, they scored 3 goals that were too easy.”
On Dumfries and Barella: “Talking about individuals is difficult for me. We had that moment where we were in control of the game. In the first half I called Dumfries because we had to stay low on their pressing. Before their goal there were no signs.”
On goals conceded: “This is the same team from last year that did not concede a goal for 8 games. The numbers must be read and just watch today’s game: we have a lot of trouble scoring goals, we would have scored more if we hadn’t found Maignan on our way. They got there more easily.”
Is there anything positive that you take home? “Yes, but in this moment it burns me to have lost a derby, it burns me for our fans and for the club, we really cared. We had to do more, tonight there is so much regret and disappointment for having lost the derby.”
