Inter striker Lautaro Martinez feels that the win that his team got over Torino in Serie A earlier this evening was fully merited by their performance.

Speaking to InterTV after the match, the 25-year-old gave his reaction to the match and admitted that the result was one that the team were desperate for given their situation heading into the match.

Inter can now say that they’re back to winning ways after a period of struggle which saw them lose successive big matches against AC Milan in the derby and then against Bayern Munich in their Champions League group stage opener.

Torino were not an easy opponent to face for a team looking to bounce back, and the Granata proved why with a performance that lived up to their reputation as making life difficult for top opposition, and it took Inter a while to find their rhythm and finally find a way through for a winner.

“I think we needed a win like this,” Martinez admitted. “We faced a difficult team, who never stop running on the pitch and mark man-to-man. In the first half we struggled, then we talked and we improved a lot in the second and I think the three points are deserved.”

He continued that “It’s been a difficult period. Winning like this gives us a special satisfaction. Today we certainly deserved the win, we did it and now let’s focus on what lies ahead.”

Of his work for the team, Martinez said that “I definitely try to always work and give my best. Sometimes you manage to win, sometimes you don’t, sometimes you manage to score and sometimes you don’t.”

“Today I think we all had to give something extra and my teammates have given that extra something that was missing in the last few matches we lost,” he continued. “Today we deservedly won because we put in what we should be doing in all matches.”

“We faced a team who are complicated to come up against,” he went on.” Then at halftime, after the great effort to find the goal in the first half because they closed the spaces off and marked man-to-man, we talked to each other and in the second half we did well.”

“They got tired because they can’t do what they were doing for the entire matches obviously, and we did well to find the spaces,” he concluded.