Inter head coach Simone Inzaghi feels that his team put in the kind of performance that they needed to to beat Sassuolo.
Speaking to InterTV after the match, the coach praised his players’ performance, and noted that they have to keep the momentum for their match against Barcelona in midweek.
Inter were desperate for three points after losing their last two matches in Serie A going into this afternoon’s match, and they managed to get them.
It was not the easiest of matches, as the Neroverdi pressed Inter high up the pitch all match and managed to cancel out the Nerazzurri’s first-half winner.
However, Inzaghi saw his players calmly play their football and find the winner, with a performance that looked balanced all over the pitch.
The Nerazzurri had already gained some momentum by beating Barcelona on Tuesday, and now they will hope that they can keep on in this direction in their second meeting with the Blaugranas on Wednesday.
“The boys showed great desire to win this match that overcame the fatigue from playing more than a hundred minutes against Barcelona,” the coach noted.
“We played a solid match, we won a tough match as a team against an opponent who are very tricky to face.”
“Already last season we had to play them after facing Liverpool, this time around it was after Barcelona,” he noted. “They can cause anyone problems.”
Inzaghi noted that the team prepared for the match “With intensity, aggression, determination, working together with team spirit and sacrifice.”
“I saw my team switch up between higher pressing and sitting deeper, which was what I wanted to see,” the coach noted.
“We all suffered together and the players who came off the bench gave what was needed.”
Inzaghi noted that his team head to Wednesday’s match against Barcelona “Off the back of two victories and with a great desire to play our game.”
“We know it will be very difficult at a tough away stadium, but we have to play a match with character and the desire to win.”
Against Sassuolo, the coach noted that “We took to the pitch as a team, which is what we’d missed in some of the matches where we’d let leads slip, apart from Rome, where we deserved more.”
“We suffered as a team, as I asked for,” he added. “The guys did very well.”
