THE’Inter forgets the Champions League success and dives into the championship. They slow down Napoli’s progress, at the end of a very tight match: 1-1 at San Siro, in a match that the Italian champions could have won, but in the end they also risked losing.
Super acerbi, Calha makes a mistake. Hakan Calhanoglu’s performance was two-sided: he scored the equalizer, but missed the penalty – his first since joining Inter – which would have allowed the overtaking. There are zero doubts about the best player on the pitch: a great performance from the Italian centre-back, who removes the feared and booed Romelu Lukaku from the match.
Inzaghi: “Great match. Conte speaks for himself.” The Nerazzurri coach is bitter only about the result, not about the performance: “I congratulated him, we played an intense match against a strong opponent, who proved it again tonight. We went on growing, we didn’t concede anything, we got back to a draw and then in the second half we were in total control. As a coach, I have to separate the result from the performance and, considering what was spent on Wednesday against Arsenal, I congratulate the team – said Simone Inzaghi in the press conference -. Conte’s words on VAR? I have nothing to comment on, I think Antonio spoke on his own behalf. Sometimes he has it, sometimes he takes it away: we all have to try to lend a hand to these referees, me first ‘warning, it can happen that a referee makes a mistake and we all have to give him a hand. They are all intense matches, decided by episodes and we have to try to give the referees a hand.’