De Vrij half smiles: “It’s nice to believe in it all the way. But in the first half it was very bad”

The Inter defender Stefan De Vrij spoke to Sky Sports after the hard-fought 1-0 success against Young Boys, a victory that came in injury time thanks to Marcus Thuram’s goal. This is the Dutchman’s thought: “It was good because we believed in it until the end. We had chances, but we can’t be happy with the performance. Very bad especially in the first half because we suffered against the opponent also because of the pitch, but in the end we did well to bring her home.”

Has the synthetic pitch had such an impact?
“The ball bounces differently, it goes faster and I think you can also see it in the images on TV…”.

Now Juventus, with many injuries. How does Inter arrive at this challenge?
“Unfortunately yes… Carlos got hurt today and adds to the other injuries. But we arrive with desire and confidence to put in an excellent performance and win.”

Juventus direct opponent?
“The season is long and the teams are there… It will be an important match as they will all be.”