Simone Inzaghi feels that the aim for next season at Inter Milan will to be to reach the same heights as last campaign.
The Nerazzurri coach spoke to Italian broadcaster SportMediaset ahead of the start of the new season, via FCInterNews. He stressed the desire to once again win the Serie A title.
Inter’s league campaign begins in just a few days.
The Nerazzurri know that they have to be ambitious.
Last season, Inter won the Serie A title. And they did so in dominant fashion, with nearly twenty points separating them from city rivals AC Milan in second in the table.
But of course, nothing can be taken for granted.
Inter are starting from zero as all the teams are in the league.
But the Nerazzurri do have a strong core of players. And perhaps most importantly of all, the Nerazzurri have a coach who has fully shaped the team in his image in the form of Inzaghi.
Simone Inzaghi: Inter Milan “Want To Repeat Serie A Title Win”
Inzaghi said that last season’s heroics “Certainly gave us a big boost.”
“We’ve had a good preseason,” the Inter coach continued. “Even if this season it’s conditioned by the fact that we have several more matches, with the Club World Cup at the end of the season.”
“The players have come back over time from the Euros and the Copa America,” Inzaghi noted.
“So our preseason had to work within those conditions. But all the guys have been completely ready to give their all.”
Inzaghi noted that “We’ve had one or two injuries. But it’s just been minor ones.”
“Apart from Stefan de Vrij I think I’ll have everyone available for Genoa,” he went on.
“I’m happy with what the team’s done in preseason,” Inzaghi.
“And now we’re all eagerly anticipating Saturday’s start to the season.”
Of Inter’s summer signings, Inzaghi said that “They’re great additions to the team.”
“And they come into a team that was already functioning well.”
“They’ll certainly help us with squad rotation in a season that could go to 68 or 69 matches, not including the matches the players have with their national teams.”
“Everyone will be needed,” Inzaghi made clear. “And then I will have to know how to rotate the squad, and which players need to rest when.”
The Nerazzurri coach also gave his thoughts on the upcoming Champions League.
“It’s a new format,” he noted. “With two more matches in the group stage.”
“It will be more difficult,” Inzaghi predicted of the new Champions League format. “There are a lot of teams from other leagues that have higher budgets than we do.”
“But two years ago we proved that we can have our say by reaching the final, and then reaching the round of sixteen.”
