Last night was perfect for Simone Inzaghi and Inter, who booked their spot in the Round of 16 of the Champions League, a step Antonio Conte never took in the Lombardy capital.
The Nerazzurri qualified to the knock-out stages of the competition following their 4-0 win over Viktoria Plzen, a match that saw Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Edin Dzeko and Romelu Lukaku all find the back of the net. Inter have righted the ship following their poor start to the season and confidence has been restored, allowing them to return focus to Serie A and their climb up the table.
As highlighted by Calciomercato.com, Inzaghi has now guided Inter to the Champions League Round of 16 twice in two years, something that hasn’t been achieved since the days of Jose Mourinho.
The Portuguese coach secured knock-out football in the Champions League in the 2008-09 and 2009-10 seasons with the Nerazzurri.
In his two years in Lombardy, Conte failed to progress past the group stages of the competition with Inter. In the 2019-20 campaign the Nerazzurri finished third in a group containing Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Slavia Prague. In his second year, Inter finished fourth in the group behind Real Madrid, Borussia Monchengladbach and Shakhtar Donetsk.
Conte was, is and remains a useless coach in Europe. Don’t much space and time writing about such nonsense
Easy to right the ship when you buy the refs
@Andy, I am upset as well for the Fiorentina game, but you can’t say that Inter payed of the ref in Europe. You need to grow up. The problems are domestically, in Europe italian teams are actually disadvantaged.
One factor that is integral to Cham league progression and success is experience. You can have quality, but you need to marry it with experience. Teams need to be consistently competing in the group stage to hone the required experience and game management to make progression a formality.
Agree with Burky about UCL.
Read the draw of Italian club and national team for few years, always have bad draw.
TSObhung the Interista
Not really an excuse. Bayern Munich and Barcelona can also say that this was a tough draw for them and what about Plzen? In order to win, you have to beat the best. Our issue is not the draw, but pure and simple economics.
Walter White
Kinda has a point post the farce of the Barcelona game in san siro.
Well done Inzaghi.