Inter Milan suffered a narrow 1-0 home defeat to Liverpool, extending a worrying trend in high-stakes matches this season.
According to Gazzetta dello Sport via FCInterNews, last night’s defeat worsened Inter’s alarming record against top-tier opponents.
Dominik Szoboszlai’s late penalty settled an evenly contested fixture at San Siro, inspiring Liverpool to a narrow win.
However, German referee Felix Zwayer played a decisive role in Inter’s second consecutive Champions League loss.
Indeed, the 44-year-old awarded a phantom penalty to the Reds, inflicting further damage on Inter’s top-eight pursuit.
Inter Milan Loss to Liverpool Extends Unwanted Trend
Before losing to Liverpool, Inter suffered a last-gasp 2-1 defeat at Atletico Madrid on their last Champions League road trip.
Unfortunately, those losses form part of the Nerazzurri’s catastrophic record in the so-called big matches.
Apart from a 1-0 win at Roma, Inter have lost all five remaining clashes against top teams under Cristian Chivu.
Indeed, Atletico Madrid, AC Milan, Napoli, and Juventus had all got the better of the San Siro club before last night’s heartbreak.
As if that’s not concerning enough, Inter conceded at least two goals in three of those five defeats.
I´m not impressed of your analysis, but agree there´s an obvious suspicious hangup in this parade of poor results. Probably some psykological enigma in the mindsets of our core-players. Look at the derbi de madonninas the last years. In spite of being superior we lose the battles. It´s difficult though to blame Chivu after his very short reign as commander. One should instead hail his very skilful coaching of the socalled “useless” newcomers, now seemingly establishing themselves as very useful and skillful players.
ONly a few questionmarks? Goalie? why doesn´t Josip Martinez get more chances to prove his worth?? Why isn´t more confidence given to our young defender who to me looks as more mature this season and has a huge potential anyway. Now he will probably get the chance since Acerbi (agree still a good player but not as good as earlier) got injured against pool.
hired because he defeats big teams with Parma, also Chivu – did not win against most big teams. FML
based on banter eras, if results ended more in bad ways (amount of games loses now are not convincing), the players could not get up and ended in changing coaches regularly. the cycle got better when right coach coming to change the ‘rotten’ mindsets that had already settled. although this is still early, chivu must learn from the past coaches and what struggles they faced before he himself losing the locker room and got sacked, especially with de boer (yes, he was really still early in the club yet he got sacked).
Weak mentality – the fear of losing against big teams results in losing all of the big matches. Stop allowing players like Thuram to cruise during the match with no outlet and hoping Lautaro will just shoot and score. How many times Acerbi has been used in big matches and how many times Inter were exposed yet the guy is blind and keeps using him. Then Henrique is too scared to play for Inter let Diouf who is far more attack minded. Basically Inter are an attacking team so attack because even if you lose there’s more to take away than playing like a midtable team against Liverpool at home. Also since Chivu is obsessed with getting a draw he should do so against a weak side and get it over with thrn aim for the win against big teams because now Inter players are psychologically affected when they face a “big team”
The scapegoating of the older players is getting old. I get it, we need younger players, but don’t scapegoat the older players on this. We’ve lost against Juventus, Napoli, Milan, Atletico and Liverpool now, and I can give you at least 3 instances in which Bastoni (not Acerbi, not De Vrij, not Mkhitaryan, or Darmian) completely lost the plot. Giving away a corner in the last minute against Atletico, yesterday’s penalty, site watching as McTominay ran towards goal and gave him all the time in the world to shoot. Also, I don’t know if you noticed, but Acerbi didn’t even play most of the match, yet you’re still scapegoating. Do I like seeing Acerbi on the lineup on every big game? Hell no. But he’s not been the problem in this big games. What about all the missed chances from our strikers? Is that also the older players fault? Try to come up with reasonable explanations instead of recurring to the usual scapegoating.
“attack because even if you lose there’s more to take away than playing like a midtable team against Liverpool at home”
Indeed, that’s the point. If we play without fear and fight to the teeth, even if we lose we will be satisfied because the team gave its all. Losing vs big teams is not a drama, but losing without putting a fight is unacceptable.
Exactly and they pretend they can’t do it and Liverpool or Atletico Madrid were just soo good but in reality there were key issues like what the hell does only Lautaro is looking to score. Pio isn’t a good finisher but he’s someone else who’s eager to score so he should be used. Im fed up with Thuram messing around he should be sold at this point
We were piss poor yesterday. Barella overhit almost every long pass. Dimarco zero accurate crosses, Thuram poor, didn’t really do a lot. We had our first shot in 36th minute!!! It looked like we played down to their level instead of stomping on their throats and grabbing game by the horns. It was not a pen but what was Bastoni thinking?! For someone who many would rate a world class defender he gives away stupid fouls. He had one against Rube in dying minutes where they equalised. Chivu need to shoulder blame for bad personnel choices in starting XI, namely Acerbi and Miki. Back to the drawing board again.