Inter coach Cristian Chivu cut a calm but disappointed figure as he reflected on his team’s 1-0 derby defeat to AC Milan at San Siro.
Speaking to Inter TV, via FCInterNews, the Nerazzurri boss stressed that the performance contained structure and intent, but once again a lack of ruthlessness proved decisive.
Chivu noted that football “is played on goals, not chances,” admitting Inter created enough to change the match but “unfortunately under the posts we made mistakes.”
He praised the organisation and belief shown throughout the 90 minutes, especially as the team continued to push after missing a penalty, but acknowledged the result still stings.
“We came off the pitch defeated because football is sometimes cruel, but we have to learn from errors. The league is still long.”
Inter 0-1 Milan – Chivu Calm After Derby Defeat
The Romanian emphasised the mental side of the setback, insisting that Inter must become better at absorbing frustration in difficult moments.
“We take little home. The positive thing is we play again in three days,” he said.
“We need to manage frustration better, increase our pragmatism and concreteness. After the first 15 minutes we became too frantic. After conceding, we tried in every way but lacked the final spark.”
Chivu felt Inter deserved more on the balance of play but accepted that merit means little without execution.
The coach instead looked ahead, urging the team to improve their approach in pressure situations.
“We wanted to get back a match where we deserved more, but you learn. We must improve the way we handle certain moments.”
The coach also welcomed the return to a full forward department, stressing trust in all four strikers.
“Lautaro and Thuram are more experienced, while Bonny and Esposito are young but learning,” he said, backing the group to respond quickly as fixtures continue to arrive.
It wasn’t Sommer’ fault. The system sucks. It’s happening way too much here, our defenders are tired from going up and down the pitch and then getting hit on a counter and can’t keep up. We play like Atalanta did with Gasperini, we look good against weak teams and get beat by any team with a quality coach who understands you can just hit us on the counter. We don’t have the defenders for 3 at the back, we have quality midfielders who would perform a lot better in a 4-3-2-1, 4-3-1-2, and even a 4-4-2 that we saw last night. Our high press is killing us, we should have had goals against Milan but that’s not going to happen when Inter has no creativity, just possession. I don’t even understand the choices from Chivu yesterday. We were a goal down with 3 defenders still on the field, and our RM was a natural LB who can’t use his right. He waited until the 83rd minute to change the system.
Once I saw the starting line up, I already knew, Inter will lose. Cos the only player that shouldn’t played is on the field…..
with his goofy mustache
these idiots only came out when the team loses a game lol. why don’t you idiots blame the players instead? they dominated the whole game even chivu tried to add more midfielder and striker. these players wasted so many chances and were not clinical; hakan missed “given” penalty and at the edge of box. so was bonny. lauti was wasted like always, in every big match, thuram lost his magic, augusto was out of position and played really safe which was bad for balance and sommer lol I thought he was in the right position to catch the ball instead of giving it to pulisic
That’s football is the only thing to say when you have nothing else to say and after you management, instead of strengthening the squad, have brough in anonymous and garbage players that you can’t/don’t know how to deploy and when some of your key players are well over 30. Then you say “that’s football”, but in reality, that’s incompetence.
Four losses can quickly become five six or seven even eight or nine losses. Marotta is a fool and Inter will pay for it.
just fix the constant crosses in the box, that’s all anyone tries to do. Maybe we need someone creative but we heavily focused on dimarco and bastoni to just cross it. augusto didn’t do anything because he is primarily left footed and couldn’t cross but didn’t find a solution to make up for it.
The one thing Chivu has to try and resolve is what is now clearly a mental block, when coming to facing direct rivals…. We absolutely blitz everyone else, but whether that will be enough to challenge for the Scudetto is questionable….
That’s Football when your team has a coach with less than 1-year of experience.
Is coach fault when your team has 2 crossbars, one penalty and many other misses? Bilan was so lucky, we were the better team, let’s move on.