Without starting strikers Lautaro Martinez and Marcus Thuram, the former injured and the latter with a cold, European and Serie A runner-up Inter Milan could not find the way to a goal against local rivals AC Milan. The “Devil” prevailed 1-0 and reduced the distance to the leader Inter to 7 points, with 10 stages left to play.
Cristian Chivu, 45, analyzed the team’s defeat as follows: “The first half was poor. In the second half, we stepped up our game and in places we managed to get a few chances.
In the end we tried to circle that deadlock down there, even changing the formula, but unfortunately we couldn’t equalize. I played badly.
Milan waited for us in defense and hit us on the counterattack. We need to improve by continuing the good things we have done so far“.
The problem always lies in the head-to-head matches for Chivu’s Inter: “We should have done better. Our game always depends on our forwards, who were a bit lacking today. It wasn’t a confidence-shattering match for this group“.
Inter asked for a penalty in extra time, after a controversial handball at the end: “We have a VAR that checked, I think… I have nothing to say. I focus on my performance and my mistakes. This team still has 10 games and 30 points to win, we have to move on. Even with a different result today, nothing would have changed“.
