Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi has decided to start Nicolo Barella and Marcus Thuram at home against Monaco. This evening’s Champions League Match Day 8 kicks off at 21.00 CET.
Inter are looking to secure a top-four finish after beating Sparta Prague 1-0 on the road in the previous round.
The Nerazzurri played a goalless draw against Manchester City in the opening round of the Champions League.
However, they had since won four consecutive league-phase games without conceding before losing at Bayer Leverkusen. Moreover, Inter Milan just thrashed Lecce 4-0 last Saturday in the Serie A.
Furthermore, with games every three days, the Nerazzurri coach Simone Inzaghi has often rotated the squad.
But that won’t necessarily be the case tonight, considering the stakes are high. Indeed, Inter must take three points to lock down a place in the top four.
Nicolo Barella & Marcus Thuram Start For Inter Milan Vs Monaco
Firstly, in defense, injury has forced Inzaghi’s hand. Center-back Francesco Acerbi is absent due to a muscle strain he suffered against Hellas Verona in November.
Therefore, Dutch veteran Stefan de Vrij starts in his place.
MILAN, ITALY – OCTOBER 05: Marcus Thuram of FC Internazionale celebrates after scoring his team’s first goal during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Torino FC at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on October 05, 2024 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani/Getty Images)Secondly, Benjamin Pavard and Alessandro Bastoni complete the defensive trio. Then, rising German star Yann Bisseck starts on the bench.
Meanwhile, in midfield, there are further changes. Kristjan Asllani deputizes for the injured Hakan Calhanoglu.
Furthermore, Nicolo Barella and Henrikh Mkhitaryan start in the middle of the park. Therefore, Davide Frattesi and Piotr Zielinski have been benched.
In goal, meanwhile, Yann Sommer keeps his starting spot.
And on the flanks, there are no changes. In-form Denzel Dumfries starts at right-wingback, with former Manchester United defender Matteo Darmian benched.
Carlos Augusto is benched with Federico Dimarco starting.
Furthermore, in attack Inzaghi has given the nod to Lautaro Martinez and Marcus Thuram. It means Marko Arnautovic begins on the bench.
Aside from Calhanoglu and Acerbi being out, Inter have no other injury concerns.
Finally, Joaquin Correa and Tomas Palacios are not part of the Inter Milan Champions League squad.
Official Starting Lineups: Inter Milan vs Monaco
INTER (3-5-2): Sommer; Pavard, De Vrij, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Asllani, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Thuram, Lautaro.
Bench: Martinez, Calligaris, Bisseck, Darmian, Carlos Augusto, Buchanan, Zielinski, Frattesi, Arnautovic, De Pieri.
Coach: Inzaghi.
Suspended: none.
Unavailable: Di Gennaro, Calhanoglu, Acerbi, Taremi.
MONACO (4-2-3-1): Majecki; Vanderson, Kehrer, Salisu, Mawissa; Zakaria, Camara; Akliouche, Minamino, Golovin, Embolo.
Bench: Köhn, Lienard, Teze, Caio Henrique, Ouattara, Magassa, Diop, Ben Seghir;, Bouabré, Diatta, Michal.
Coach: Hütter.
Suspended: none.
Unavailable: Balogun, Singo, Ilenikhena.
Referee: Irfan Peljto.
Assistants: Davro Beljo and Senad Ibrisimbegovic.
Fourth official: Milos Gigovic.
Var: Bastian Dankert assisted by Piotr Lasyk.
I’m happy I’m not the only one seeing how how crap this comment system is. Also I have to put in my name every time I make a comment? I can be many different people on here . Football-italia has this same nonsense and I hate it. I barely visit the site
I have emailed dev team. You should NOT have to type in name every time. Absolutely not.
deal with it haha.
Pavard has to be the our most unlucky player
Crowd showing Frattesi plenty love, cool scenes
this new comment system is slower than carrier pigeons.. cant put in emojis either??! welcome to the future..
It’s instantaneous for me
what is this new comment BS? BTW.. who else wants to make toro our permanent penalty taker seeing today’s scored penalty??
Ey yo, when Disqus coming back?
Never going back to disqus.
its nonsense. to write name and email everytime we want to comment here!!!
Not every time. only once
Not true – EVERYTIME!!
and how wasn’t it working for you?!? This is abysmal.
And not useable. It’s also not instantaneous.
It shouldnt be every time. I’ll email the dev team.
We gotta flood italian football podcast on youtube comments to let Nima know this comment section is bullshit
You really dont. We had to change. Disqus wasnt workable
I want third goal to be safe.
Test
Nima, international playboy, please return the old comment section, or any comment section apart from this one. People are suffering
hahaha bro we had to change from disqus.
Yo fuck this new chat bullshit
look at the bright side.. the new comment section does not sensor swear words!!! we are ready for bilan!!
hahahaa!!!! FFS!!!
Yooo I did not realize Lool… we’re going to have a proper fan site then, lovely
Are you not Intertained?
Asllani has been surprisingly decent
El Toro!
This chat setup is bs, I can’t like people’s comments nor I can reply. It’s like bots typing here.
Lautiiiiii is back!!!!
2-0!!! Lauti again!!!! goooaaalll!!!! 14 for the season now…. what drought???
Toro is back with 2 goals in 15 mins
Please Go back to new comment set up. Its not worth the time. Why I have to put my name and email every time I want to comment on something or make a comment??
Exactly this is stupid. Not even putting real emails so whats the point.
Inzaghi understood after last game it seems. Hopefully we get more than 1 goal today.
Unlucky DiMarco!!
10 man Monaco!!! Thanks to the ball from DiMarco!!! This is how we should play in Europe- FULL THROTTLE!!!
Thuram too hot to handle for Monaco. Red card within 10 mins is going to be the most difficult task for the rest of the game.
Everytime I have write I need to put username and email?? Wth kind of crap is this
what happen in the comment section?
This new comment setup is not it
What’s with this chat box here. It’s hell
Wicked ball from DiMarco!!! should be 2 up there!!!
We should be up 3 rn
Forza inter
I don’t like the new look of the comment section. But good start boys!
Excellent PK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Lauti is back on his top!!!!!!
Why is he so bad at pens ♂️
Lautaro!!!!! goooaaalll!!!! If he’s scoring penalties, he’s well and truly back!!!!
nother 1:0 and top 4 finish. 🙂
Oooohhhh…. how did you manage to upload a profile picture??
It’s WordPress profile. Register and put any picture. 🙂
Another*.
Penalty!!!! Great start!!!!
Well, good luck boys! Not easy for this new comment setup.
Good it’ll be interesting to see how Mikhi-Zielinski and Barella works out. I expect Barella to make forward more often
Zielinski is on the bench….
Yeah just noticed. But can’t edit my post tho
Ahhhhh…. so I could leave a comment, but it took around 5 minutes to appear…. that’s not gonna work too well during the course of a match….
It didnt. I saw your comments within seconds of you adding them.
Yeah, maybe it was my phone…. seems to be working fine now….
Happy to hear that mate.
If there is any issue email me on nima@sempreinter.com
Why can’t I leave a comment?!?!?!?
You can. I see your comment and have replied to you. Try another time
Seems to be getting better… cheers
yeah, sorry about these teething issues.
No worries…. New format, so it’s bound to happen….
Yeah teething issues etc.
Should save energy for the more important match on Sunday
After the injury scare to Barella, I’m surprised that Frattesi wasn’t given another start… I was expecting us to stick with the same midfield as against Lecce… hopefully we can get the job done in the first hour, and give a few players some rest before the Derby!
A top 4 finish tonight would be a great achievement!! Even English Prem Faces are starting to take us seriously!! Good luck boys, and FORZA INTER!!!
Well said. Ps. I can see your comments
I have a feeling Asllani is going to score and get a red card also
hahaha!!
I hope to see a goal from peri
same
sell martinez
2 massive jokes!!
Asllani starting
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This crap comments section
Sorry you dont like comments. Disqus wasnt working for us at all.
Please explain what wasn’t working w/ Disqus?
The running tally of comments and upvotes was really good IMO.
It would take 3 hours to explain but it’s been going on for a long time.
But please accept my apologies for tonight’s shitshow. I have emailed the developers.
We will get this sorted before Milan derby one way or another.
How about bullet points?
change the comments section back for the love of God
Disqus wasnt working for us. So we went back to what we had before disqus.
Can you at least use a format that allows comment likes?
We’re looking into other solutions like that.
I don’t seem to be able to comment… trying a reply as an alternative…. here’s hoping…
I can see your comment. Is it working for you now?
Pleaaaaaase make it function better. Atleast make it modern like threads or YouTube comment section. The constant signing in make my fingers hurt and where are the emojis??!
I have emailed the dev team. You absolutely should not have to sign in every time. Sorry for this.
I missed the game but How is the comment section now, are they live like disqus or do you need to reload every time?
Not a surprising lineup really. We are forced to try to win the match and will be forced to win again over the weekend. Time for the squad to step it up. Forza Inter!
seeing Asllani starting is soul crushing
nice, inzaghi know he have bad luck in late game, so he put Zielinski on bech to sub asllani later.