Fatigue weighed heavily on Inter Milan during last night’s stomach-wrenching 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool.
According to Corriere dello Sport via FCInter1908, first-half injuries hindered Inter’s momentum in this pivotal Champions League clash.
Inter lost star midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu to a thigh injury only 11 minutes into the game.
Indeed, Cristian Chivu had to take the 31-year-old in favor of Piotr Zielinski after the former requested a substitution.
Furthermore, Francesco Acerbi suffered a muscle problem midway through the first half.
Like Calhanoglu, he had to come off immediately, with Yann Bisseck taking his place.
Fatigue Takes Toll in Inter Milan 0-1 Liverpool Loss
Though Felix Zwayer’s unforgivable mistake in the 88th minute fired Liverpool to a controversial win, Inter weren’t at their best.
Calhanoglu’s withdrawal denied the Nerazzurri much-needed creativity and attacking fluency in midfield.
Meanwhile, Acerbi’s injury weakened the defensive line, leaving Inter vulnerable at the back.
Despite Manuel Akanji’s impressive performance, Bisseck often was not up to the task.
Therefore, the Swiss center-back had to put in extra effort to shore up the gaps.
Cos Chivu didn’t dare enough to played his young guns against big team, always depends on the old rusty guy, who always beaten in pace with speed devil opponents. Need to build younger, tougher, and speedier team with lots of confident
In the big matches it is more or less the same line up as under Inzaghi. They play slow and horizontal so it is so damn easy to defend against. Furthermore we have a line up with 5/11 over 30 y/o Sommer, Acerbi, Akanji, Zielinski, Mikitharian. And 1 player under 25 y/o! 1!
No wonder it is impossible to maintain intensity for 90 mins and in every game.
Play Sucic, Diouf, Bisseck and Pio instead.
Chivu lost all the big games and he was fearful for this one and played for a draw and couldn’t manage
what fatigue are we talking about??!! there are, how many, 22 players in the squad, they should be able to perform at the highest level,that’s their job, they do nothing else than that and are enourmously paid for that! Unless, may be, when you have some key players well over 30 and when your new players that you brought in to replace the old ones, suck. Then, we might be talking about fatigue, but thatl’s entirelly on the ownership and the management!
oh my excuses. Liverpool has been playing with the same squad week in and week out… even more than us. We were just worse than a premier league team that’s on the brink of collapse and that’s it