Inter took on Torino at the Stadio Olimpico tonight. Inter, hungry for revenge after losing against Roma. Inter, without key players like Ricky Alvarez and Hugo Campagnaro, who faced a Torino missing a lot of players as well. It all ended 3-3. We should’ve won. Despite all the circumstances, we we’re worthy of three points. A draw… is a robbery.
Total chaos in the defensive line during the first half. As soon as Hugo Campagnaro is missing, the rest of the defense falls apart in the lack of a proper commander on the field. It’s like cutting out Maximus out of the “Gladiator”-movie. Our leader was nowhere to be found. Torino’s strikers and midfielders outplayed us from the first minute and to get all our remaining moral broken into a million little pieces after the situation where Handanovic gets stomped in the face and is punished with a red card and a penalty. What’s with the referees this evening? The linesmen, in particular, were rather selective in their waving with the flag. Every decision fell in the favor of Torino. Un-flubbing-believable. So when head-referee Doveri does his best to sever the head of the game as soon as possible, out comes Juan Pablo Carrizo. He saves the penalty, only to throw away the title of “hero”, in the final minute when the freekick from Bellomo just falls in behind him, a ball that every goalkeeper in this league, should take care of without trouble, but no.
In the second half, the defense really shapes up. Inter did a real number and performed well, in my opinion. Not handsome and not good, but they showed that you could win football matches, hardly playing football. Three tiny situations of high-class that did the work for Inter. The bicycle-kick from Guarin, then maybe a little slip-up from Padelli in the Torino-goal where Palacio yawns and heads the ball into the back of the net. Then a fantastic run from Belfodil followed by a perfect cross to Palacio who just flicks the ball in. We did put in such an effort in the second half, mainly Fredy Guarin and Rodrigo Palacio who put heart and soul into every step on that pitch. We should’ve won today. That’s what’s burning inside me, my friends. We should’ve won today.