Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi wants his team to “look for the positives” from their derby loss to AC Milan.
The Nerazzurri coach spoke to InterTV after yesterday’s match, via FCInterNews. He admitted that there’s not much positive, but stressed having the right attitude.
Inter experienced by far their biggest setback of the season yesterday evening.
The Nerazzurri had gone into the derby against city rivals AC Milan with the tag of big favourites.
Inter’s form this season so far had not been perfect. But there was a sense that they had maintained their momentum from last season more or less.
Milan, on the other hand, had endured a very tough start to the campaign.
The Rossoneri have had major growing pains in their first few weeks under coach Paulo Fonseca.
None of that was evident in the derby yesterday evening, however.
It was Inter who looked like the team without ideas and without energy.
Milan, by contrast, had a clear gameplan and the energy and physicality to execute it. They overran Inter in midfield and created by far more and better chances to score.
Inter Coach Inzaghi: “Take The Positives From AC Milan Loss, Even If There Aren’t Many”
After yesterday’s match, Inter coach Inzaghi said that “We started both halves badly.”
“After the equalizer we should have done better. But we didn’t.”
The Nerazzurri coach continued, “Now we have to get back to it as soon as possible after this loss.”
“As I said before, we needed to be sharper and clearer mentally,” Inzaghi said. “And not lose the distances between the lines.”
“We allowed Milan too many counterattacks,” he added.
“Clearly, something was lacking tonight. We’ll analyze this loss, and try to figure out what went wrong as soon as possible.”
“We weren’t the usual Inter,” Inzaghi said.
“We got stretched, and Milan played between the lines too easily.”
Now, Inzaghi said, Inter need “Work, and even more concentration.”
“It hurts to have lost a derby,” he said. “But we have to take the positive things from a loss like this, even if we don’t see many right now.”
“From tomorrow on we start work again, with an eye towards Udinese and the matches to come.”
