If there is one player who did not disappoint it was Mauro Icardi. In the difficult night where Inter got eliminated from the Champions League, his goal did not make the difference and the tears of his family is bitter to see.
In his first season of the competition, Mauro scored four of the six goals Inter scored in total. Something that confirms that Icardi has taken another step to a “global level,” at least in the eyes of Gazzetta dello Sport.
“It was his 200th game wearing an Inter jersey and he scored his 119th goal, making his numbers extraordinary, in fact it is the first time in Inter history that one player scores in all the first three home games of the Champions League. There you go, another record broken and certainly not the last, because Mauro Icardi is impossible to stop. So, Icardi scores again but he also worked a lot for the team, both in terms of sacrifice and providing quality.”
Yesterday, Icardi was not alone in the box as critics often state, yesterday Maurito was everywhere, he helped his teammates in midfield, he went to fight for a lot of balls and was there when Politano made the cross that ended up in goal after the header of Icardi.
In the first part of the game his involvement in the game was more subtle, first the assist to Perisic then the header to Borja and finally a pass to Brozovic that sent him towards the goal. Then in the second half his goal came, a goal that ended up being in vain which perhaps makes everything even worse. Gazzetta talks about him as “Saint Mauro,” but the miracle never came and he was devastated after the final whistle. In the stands his family was crying, first Wanda’s son, Valentino who loves Mauro and is a huge Inter fan. Mauro himself could barely find the strength within himself in order to give his companions a pat on the back. Now it is up to him to try to wipe away the bitterness.
