Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi has decided to start Mehdi Taremi in attack, Kristjan Asllani in midfield, and Josep Martinez in goal against AC Milan. This evening’s Coppa Italia semifinal second leg clash kicks off at 21.00 CET.
Inter Milan face AC Milan in the Coppa Italia this evening.
It is the fifth time that the two city rivals meet in a derby this season. Moreover, it is the second leg, for a place in the final.
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Therefore, this evening’s match will be a huge one for both the Nerazzurri and the Rossoneri’s season.
However, for Inter there are other big matches just around the corner.
Firstly, Inter take on Roma in a postponed Serie A match on Sunday.
Then, the Nerazzurri face Barcelona in the first leg of a Champions League semifinal next Wednesday.
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Therefore, Inter coach Simone Inzaghi has had to think about balancing naming a strong starting eleven against Milan this evening with giving key players adequate rest.
Josep Martinez Keeps Place As Coppa Italia Keeper
Firstly, in goal Josep Martinez has kept his place as Inter’s cup keeper. The Spaniard starts ahead of Yann Sommer.
Then, in defense there is one change. Alessandro Bastoni keeps his place from Sunday’s league loss to Bologna.
Furthermore, Dutch defender Stefan de Vrij replaces Francesco Acerbi. Additionally, Yann Bisseck starts instead of Benjamin Pavard.
Meanwhile, there is one big change in midfield. Kristjan Asllani starts for Inter alongside Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Nicolo Barella.
Therefore, Hakan Calhanoglu gets the chance to catch his breath.
On the flanks, meanwhile, there is a notable change as Federico Dimarco replaces Carlos Augusto starting opposite Matteo Darmian.
Mehdi Taremi Leads The Line
In attack the notable name is that of Mehdi Taremi. The Iranian international gets the nod, next to club captain Lautaro Martinez.
As a result, Joaquin Correa and Marko Arnautovic are both benched.
Meanwhile, Inter have three players still out with injury – Marcus Thuram, Denzel Dumfries, and Piotr Zielinski.
In conclusion, AC Milan start their strongest available lineup.
Official Starting Lineups: Inter Milan Vs AC Milan: Taremi, Martinez & Asllani Start
Inter Milan (3-5-2): 13 J. Martinez; 31 Bisseck, 6 De Vrij, 95 Bastoni; 36 Darmian, 23 Barella, 21 Asllani, 22 Mkhitaryan, 32 Dimarco; 10 Lautaro Martinez, 99 Taremi.
Substitutes: 1 Sommer, 12 Di Gennaro, 8 Arnautovic, 11 Correa, 15 Acerbi, 16 Frattesi, 20 Calhanoglu, 28 Pavard, 30 Carlos Augusto, 52 Berenbruch, 58 Cocchi, 59 Zalewski.
Coach: Simone Inzaghi.
Suspended: no one.
Injured and unavailable: Piotr Zielinski, Denzel Dumfries, Marcus Thuram.
AC Milan (3-4-2-1): 16 Maignan; 23 Tomori, 46 Gabbia, 31 Pavlovic; 20 Jimenez, 29 Fofana, 14 Reijnders, 19 Theo Hernandez; 11 Pulisic, 10 Leao; 9 Jovic.
Substitutes: 57 Sportiello, 96 Torriani, 7 Gimenez, 8 Loftus-Cheek, 21 Chukwueze, 24 Florenzi, 28 Thiaw, 33 Bartesaghi, 38 Bondo, 42 Terracciano, 79 Joao Felix, 80 Musah, 90 Abraham, 99 Sottil.
Coach: Sergio Conceiçao.
Suspended: no one.
Injured and unavailable: Emerson Royal.
Referee: Doveri.
Assistant referees: Meli and Alassio.
Fourth official: Aureliano.
VAR: Mazzoleni Marini.
lol when you have 2 high potensial strikers but choose to depend on 2 wash up old guys
this is what you get
Hopefully we don’t miss all the rest.
inter will be trophless except in the eyes of some losers who I want to call them out since they always attack me out of nowhere (Fez and Bruno)
inter was always smaller Milan suburban team
I wish you ill
So having just enduring that absolute embarrassment in the flesh.
We knew how they would play against us, we knew what their lineup would be, and the so called genius sets us up with aslllani and taremi. ♂️
One stands still and the other is literally serie B quality at best.
Bisseck continues to be great and terrible at the same time, some good ground tackles but again can’t win a tombola in the air…
Consistently out jumped by players far shorter than him. And regularly out of position… leaving Theo , pulisic and leao to run in behind
I’m half infuriated because it’s basic football knowledge
And half empathetic because I know for the 99% of the last 18 months they’ve all run themselves into the ground for this shirt.
I usually don’t put comments just read other fans comments, but I think Mkhitaryan made so many mistakes against Bologna and again today against Milan. I was just shocked how many balls he gave away both games. Inzaghi has options on midfield to rest the older players, why Sub out Barella and keep Mkhitaryan on the field is very confusing. On that note, the strength of the squad was on wing-backs, again to me I don’t see DiMarco performing at his half potential and Dumfries Injury is taking beyond eternity. Fatigue is a part of the factor, but not purchasing any players now for two seasons and relaying on senior citizens like Mkhitaryan and Darmian to play 90 mins every 3 days is the reason Inter will be out of CI and soon to follow CL. INZAGHI AND UPPER MANAGMENT NEED TO TAKE A HUGE PART OF THE BLAME FOR NOT SPENDING THE MONEY FOR TWO SEASONS OTHER THAN SENIOR FREE TRANSFER PURCHASES.
Spot on. Wish you would comment more
Thanks Nima, when team does well I don’t need to comment, but today we didn’t even looked competitive other than first 20 Mins, perhaps is fatigue and I’m hoping our wing-backs be available soon, but in general I saw a huge issue with few players both games Saturday and today, Mkhitaryan both games made so many mistakes if you rematch both games. Best wishes Sunday against Roma.
I’m sure Inzaghi is more aware of our teams players than anyone else, but he has given this senior citizens team and he has done wonders with them. The rest is on Beppe and Oaktree to inject young blood into teams vein.
Darmian is Mr dependable, he works his ass off doing jobs he doesn’t have the skill set to really be asked to do.
How is Inzaghi to be blamed for “not spending the money”? Inzaghi is not the owner of the club and he does not decide what money will be spent.
Also, it is easy to say that the management should have spent more, but Inter have had large budget deficits and debts, hence little financial room for investment in the mercato recently. Hopefully with UCL and Club World Cup money it will change this summer.
soooo true
this is what I have been saying ! and people atacking me! some stupid even called me Milan fan!!!!
Nothing hurts like the truth!
You really don’t understand… This is the same squad that won so many titles, Cl final 2 years ago, the scudetto with a 19points difference last year,this is the same teams that got themselves in this position to compete for everything at the end of April… Do you guys understand that this is just a football game? You cand win or you can lose… When we losing the squad is old, Inzaghi make bad decisions, Myki, Darmian or the others over 30 are finished… How about the rest of the teams in Seria A??? Do you like Juventus and invested a lot and have young players? Do you like how their doing at the moment???? Last year you managed to win comfortable the title because we finished early with the CL… Is the same team, last year you liked them, now they make many mistakes… Listen, the board is smart enough to learn from mistakes and will make a few adjustments… Asllani, Taremi and probably Fratessi will leave… Fresh new players are coming
Problem is yes it is a same team ( But with many injuries due to age) we can play the same team if they are not worn out or injured, just saying it is a same team makes no sense when key players can’t preform because the right amount of rest was not provided due to lack of young and talented bench. Two things needs to happen, Inzaghi needs to come up with better strategies than the same exact formation and predictability, teams and coaches from other teams have figured the same strategy now by now. And second is as you mentioned the same team can not play every 3 days when the average age of the starting 11 is 32. Inter lacks energy because the same 11 are mostly been used every 3 days, but it is the same team you are correct, but tired, injured and out of creativity as a team.
Oops, I FORGOT to watch the game, so blame me for jinxing us today against “AC NewSassuolo”. We need to fall a little, to sharpen ourselves. We have a tradition of finding extra gear when we have no other option than to do so.
To my surprise, today’s MoTM for us may be Bissek. Not just defended really well on Leao, also provided the most shots on goal. Thought he would perform bad today based on his last few games.
He didn’t win a single header….♂️
Surely that’s his first job!!! And he should never lose a battle at 6’5”
Making two tackles is great but I’d prefer him to stop going wandering and leaving gaps and win just 1 header ffs
My prediction was that Milan would win tonight, and Bologna will win in the final. They have an interesting project, and will deserve both Coppa Italia and an UCL spot.
It is what it is. We have been playing like this the whole season. Making it too easy for the opponent to beat us. Cant win it all, but I really hope we win something this season.
it is all over!
we were so stupid to win nothing in the easiest season!
what is more stupid ?
going to next season with these people
Inzaghi?
Taremi?
Mkhitaryan?
Correa?
Arna?
,,,,,,,,,,
and I wish to say someone bigger should take the responsibility of this madness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Easy buddy, with this squad, the oldest average ages in the league, and most game played in the league. Inzaghi did a really good job. You can’t blame him for everything. But I agree on the players we need to replace for next season, we need more younger fighters.
we lost tactically for 5th time, no effort to rectify the problem from Inzaghi, Milan always punish us through the center countering with pace, they are no longer going wide like in the past. Leao Pulisic Rijnders will attack us from the pockets and we are cooked, Asslani or Hakan alone wont be able to cover the space, we see how many times they are forced to make tackles. I feel Barcelona will cook us, they play direct through the middle
Inter lack players with creativity; no speed, no fleet footed players; all just kick and follow football. if nzaghi wants to sign any contract, he should demand they purchase players with the above characteristics.
In Inzaghi’s mind Mikhi is creative. He took out Barella the best player on the match and left Mikhi to play the entire match.
Looks likely inter will go from treble into trouble in just a week. Defeat against bilan has costed us the coppa, defeat against roma will cost us the title and finally defeat against barca will cost us CL.
Well when you put it like that its sounds like the end of the world. Lol Inter really need to start acting like a team they are suppose to be and wether people like it or not it starts with the coach. Too much rotated squad will only bring disaster as you predicted. Inter hopes now is make sure they score in the first half of matches and for that he needs to be bold and not use forward players who are not goal scorer (Taremi and Correa) but Frattesi who knows how to score and constantly make runs
I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed.
Say what you want, we were the better team today, we missed our chances. If one would gone in, it would’ve a different match. Milan used only chance they had in first hald and we are just too tired to play pressing or the result, you can see that clearly. Lets focus on Serie A and CL. I have a good feeling we go through Barca 🙂
They had 8 shots with 3 shots on the goal and they scored 3 times. We had 16 shots with 3 shots on the goal and scored nothing.
Inzaghi wake up call this. No need to over complicate things. Trash players will remain trash. It was clear Inter would run out of gas and chances not taken will hurt you.
my biggest disappointment is that we are allowing bilan a chance to qualify for Europe next year.
I’m just thankful it’s not gone into extra time.
Good wake up call for the lads and inter leadership
hopefully the score makes Barcelona feel too comfortable and overconfident
Thank you Inzaghi for giving bilan a chance to be in Europe and being in next years super coppa. A midtbale team have beat you and you haven’t been able to win against conceicao or bilan all season: 5 games!!!
As I feared: The collapse have already started. 3 games without a win and 2 straight losses.
There is a big chance we will lose the league too, mentally and psychologically. Could be the most devastating season ever, collapsing in the finish line each competition. Let’s see what the next few weeks brings but we need a psychologists asap for the players for their mental strength.
Imagine blaming Inzaghi for this
It’s mote about fitness levels, we are drained so much in bayern games
enough of Inzaghi bashing.. never seen u praise Inzaghi when he wins. this team is exhausted. u want to blame someone blame oaktree for not getting reinforcements, else name another coach who could have won us the treble with this team. and stop copying my name! I had inter4life in my name since 2010!!
I fully agree with having psychological treatment. Not only fatigue crisis, their mental too.
I hope at least we win serie A.
Dire necessitas! (…makes the hero)
it ends
can’t watch this inter play. they are absolutely Gassed!!! thanks oaktree.. everyone and their dog knew we needed reinforcements in Jan except u
thank you! the most annoying part of this is that we wasted our starters energy and the morale by loosing to this shit team
maybe we lose tactically and mentally since the beginning of this match.
I hope bilan keep losing for the rest of this season in all matches
just gonna fold this micky mouse trophy. thr management should invest in players if want to fight for all fronts. the gap in quality between our starter st. rb and midfielders is astronomical..
bisseck saved us from humiliation today. just saying
bisseck was a rock today!! if di Marco and toro had not fluffed their chances this would have been a different match.
wtf were you watching he didn’t win a single header
i swear to god ur either drunk or was watching a replay of a differnt match.
gtfo boy
Calm ur tits mate.. bisseck was a rock..he had leao in his pocket all match, and the number of timed challenges was excellent. if u didn’t see that and are so filled with hate, u don’t need an ophthalmologist u need a psychiatrist.
Zalewski needs to play right side, Darmian should just be a substiute, we would be much more dangerous, left DiMarco or Carlos, doesn’t matter
Corea is in, don’t worry, we will turn this :'(
This team is OLD!!!!
Milan:
1 shot on target 0 shots off target – 2 goals. LOL
Clueless display when holding the ball in final third
we can not even defend 2 goals lead and now hoping to catch 2 goals defisit? bilan will now sit deep and counter which is their actual favorable style.
bilan will just waste the time till end
Cant blame really to the team if we lost chances to winning any titles, oaktree did us dirty
This competition is a pure waste of time.
We should only focus on CL since we don’t have a team for all competitions. We should also stop wasting energy on Serie A because even if we play perfect eventually we are gonna get robbed.
At least in CL we can get a fair treatment from the refs.
We have a better chance to win the league than beating Barcelona
Barcelona is vulnerable when you counter attack them. Their defence is not that good. They leave too much open space behind. We have a defence that can hold them off. They are playing against Real Madrid in Coppa del Rey. Levandowski is injured. They are also chasing La Liga title. With recovered Dumfries, Zielinski and Thuram our team can be dangerous.
So yes, we should only focus on CL or else we can end up with 0 titles. We don’t have a team for 3 competitions.
We can beat Barca as they are very shaky vs well-defending teams, but if in the final it is PSG, kiss goodbye to the trophy. Our best chance of winning silverware is Serie A.
We always and I mean always have a hard time against Spanish teams. Remember UEL final? Barca B when we lost at home only needing a draw to qualify? Real Socidedad? And so on.
Beating Barca and PSG with inzaghi’s inter who lost to man city and bilan in finals… is not likely. Serie A is easier, I’m afraid if we lose coppa, serie a and ucl all on the finish line is detrimental for our mental health and psychologically for the players
Ok, but don’t forget about the financial aspect. CL is worth more than all other competitions combined.
Holly cr@p this game was a disaster….
If it was another team I would not mind, but it is a midtable team we could not beat in 5 games this season. It is worthless to keep watching this game, it is already finished.
Nothing to be bothered about. In all those 5 games they didn’t outplayed us once. They just had more luck. I don’t mind not winning coppa or serie a, we have plenty of those trophys, we need more CL titles.
Inzaghi with his BS rotation in GK. He found the right game to do experiments.
Thank you Inzaghi for costing us the final of the cup. Also gifting bilan super coppa next year and taking them to Europe by playing ASSLANI BISSECK AND MARTINEZ IN GOAL.
Asllani and Bisseck are not to be blamed. Martinez is.
When you play bisseck and asslani you already know it’s more likely you’ll lose than win
It does not matter, it is not their fault.
Bologna will beat them in the Final. They simply are a matchup problem for Inter and no one else
Bisseck plays a perfect game tonight, wtf ?
Asslani no contribution, Martinez to blame for second goal. But its his weakness, you clearly see every corner Milan players surround him, Conceicao knows that
Some people just blindly blame some players they dont like. not sure if they watched the game. lol
can u stop being a hissy and blaming our players. asslani had a decent game, bisseck was a rock today. Martinez was ordinary. but the real loser here today was our management! expecting serie ‘s oldest team to play every 3 days, and expect us to win everything
You want treble, right?
Inzaghi should have played Sommer. GK is the biggest issue.
If we lose this, we aren’t winning any this year and I’m not even mad at it. Most of our fans only look at results and not overall football. Whatever Inzaghi delivers this season is what we deserve.
Sadly I agree. No trophies this year is how it’s going to end. Fixture list is going to be our undoing. The players are delivering the results. Inzaghi making the best of a bad situation given fixtures and injuries and of course no spending by Oaktree.
have faith bro. we are playing well
100% agree with you. Players and the coach needs to step up. Errors are punished not rewarded. Milan are really weak to be fair and showed nothing going forward other than the cross. Taremi is poor but far better the alternative Correa as Arna is not fit. So losing against a weak team like Milan means better teams will be able to defeat Inter there’s no other way of putting it
It looks like Dimarco didn’t fully recover from his injury or his form dropped significantly, but at this point Carlos might be a better option on the left flank.
he looks uncomfortable. I expect him to be subbed off
Same old story wasting chances after chances.While Milan only needed one clear chance. Everyone it seems wants to be a hero instead of playing as a team.
no idea with bisseck head, like he wanted to be a hero. so far, he’s good in defending, but not serious in shooting the ball
We are not playing good and missing chances left and right. Pavard and Chala need to come on min right at half time.
It’s EMBARRASING we can’t beat a mid table team!!!
If we lose this game bilan have a chance to be in Europe next season (uel) and be in super coppa next season as well as a finalist. SMH we keep doing them favors
Taremi didn’t show anything, Arna needs to come in, should’ve started anyway. We missed too much, they had one chance and scored, most cruel unwritten rule in football, you miss too much, you concede, almost always true
That is what I was going to say, Arna is who we need.
The team is playing well, but finishing is missing with bad shooting.
Lautaro missed the goal did cost us.
some players look tired, or unmotivated.
Let’s have a hope in the second half.
looking at how the team plays making inzaghi looking like a clown.
You’re the true clown for this stupid comment
ngl you deserve a coach like pioli to support.
inzaghi with this squad is exceeding expectations.
if you don’t score then you’ll concede
Everyone expected this.
This type of the miss really hurts…… But team looks really well played so far.
So close… we got them on the ropes let’s get some goals!
Bisseck transforming to peak Maicon forst 15 min. 😀 We play good, hope we can keep this pace and score 1-2 goals
Guys please anyone has livestream link? Thanks in advance
I do not have much faith in winning this match. The desperation from Milan will be too much with Inter looking towards the next seven days. Hope for the best
Asllani wearing an inter jersey should be classified as an act of terrorism
Dimarco is a serious liability defensively for 3 games in a row, he doesnt close his opponent and leaving too much space. Our finishing is so poor as if these guys never shoot their entire life
It is a pity, some countries in africa – especially western part, cannot watch this great match live; only via you-tube channel. i humbly request lega serie a to look into this issue and make necessary collaborations with their counterpart over there.
I was positive for Bologna match. Now with this line up what?! Bruno?
I’m not convinced by this lineup, bisseck and asllani are overrated and we put Sommer on the bench…..
This is game is more important than most know; yes it’s a semi final second leg but also extremely important psychologically. We lost the last game to bologna and haven’t beaten milan this season… if we lose this game too then there is a chance a total collapse can happen in the league and the ucl. I pray not because it would be the most devastating season ever: out in coppa semi final; ucl semi final and 2nd in the league with 5 games to go. Come on Inter let’s get the win!
Compare to this one, I’d rather team can put more effort in the next two vs Roma and Barca. This game means shit……..and everyone knows Asllani, Bissek not performs well enough. So do you want to see Chala or Acerbi or Pavard or Augusto or Sommer to risk the fatigue in this game?????