No other club seems to produce the kinds of emotions that Inter do, with the team managing to deliver the biggest results in tough and inexplicable circumstances.

This is the verdict in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews, who note how the Nerazzurri threw beautiful football out the window in their Champions League round of sixteen second leg against Porto but sent their fans home ecstatic anyway.

Inter’s performance against Porto was a backs-to-the-wall affair, as for the better part of ninety minutes the Nerazzurri sat back and closed off the spaces to protect their one-goal advantage from the first leg of the tie at the San Siro.

It was hardly the most thrilling match until a long period of extra time which saw Porto hit the frame of the goal twice and the likes of Andre Onana and Denzel Dumfries called into action to scramble the ball away.

However, the fact that discipline was emphasized almost entirely at the expense of fluidity in attack mattered little to the Inter fans.

The Nerazzurri faithful, the Gazzetta notes, are used to these kinds of evenings by now.

The gritty nature of the way that the team got the job done on the pitch only further endeared them to those watching in the stadium, and the many more fans watching around the world.

“Only Inter can gift the fans these emotions,” the Gazzetta suggest.