Finally Lukaku. Big Rom (re) takes Inter on the most important night, giving away the decisive goal on Porto which shifts the qualification percentages, albeit slightly. On 14 March, in the chaos of Do Dragao, the Nerazzurri won't be able to indulge too much on yesterday's 1-0, but they will still be able to play with two results out of three available, with the awareness that the Portuguese will have an even greater margin for error narrow.
Mission accomplished in short, and the discussion can be extended to all of Italian football: the victory of theInter, in fact, adds to those of Milan e Napoli, For a en plein (partial, of course) that not it had been happening for a long time and that even becomes a record considering the three clean sheets, a figure that has never occurred before in the round of XNUMX.
Inter 1-0 Porto, Inzaghi celebrates: "Excellent victory, too bad we didn't score earlier"
In short, there's something to smile about, because if it's true that Tottenham, Eintracht and Porto aren't exactly the elite of football, it's also true that matches are won on the pitch and there, more often than not, our teams had got us used to it badly .
The appeal lacked theInter and the answer came promptly, even if almost at the photo finish of a difficult and mangy challenge, just as expected. The main feature of the Oportoin fact, it is certainly not champagne football, but the ability to "stick" to the opponent, making him play badly and transforming the match into a bullfight, to then strike at the right time. There Conceiçao team she tried yesterday too and almost failed, stopped only by one amazing Onana, able to stop Sanusi with a terrific double save, but for the rest the match was made by Inter, who would still have been close to a draw. Lots of them occasions had by Nerazzurri already in the first half, some wasted badly (Lautaro heads), others stopped by the excellent Diogo Costa (Bastoni), and when the match seemed to have stabilized at 0-0, here are the two episodes who took her to Inzaghi. First the play by Calhanoglu to propitiate theexpulsion of Otavio, then the Barella's cross to draw Lukaku, who entered half an hour ago in place of a spent Dzeko: header on the post and rebounded into the net, for the winning goal and theSan Siro ecstasy.
“We had an excellent game against a physical team – he exulted Inzaghi -. In the first half there was some regret about the lost opportunities, in the second half we risked on the counter, then the substitutions helped us. We would have liked to have done something more but it was a great performance, perhaps we should have been quicker in the first lap, build faster and move it better. Then with an opponent who attacked ferociously we probably had to raise the pace, but we created a lot and deserved the lead already in the first half".
Big too gioia di Lukaku, finally the protagonist after months spent watching his comrades from the infirmary. “Everything was in that shot, starting with the satisfaction of winning the match – le Big Rom's words -. We wanted to win, we could have scored the second goal and we didn't succeed, but the most important thing was the result. Liberation? I'm not an individualist, I think about doing the best things possible for Inter, I'm happy with the win and let's carry on like this. I'm also happy with Barella's assist, always saying that he's the first player to go to war with".
Europe and Conference League: tonight Nantes-Juventus (18.45 pm, Sky and Dazn), Rome-Salzburg (21 pm, Tv8, Sky and Dazn), Cluj-Lazio (18.45 pm, Sky and Dazn) and Fiorentina-Braga (21 pm , Sky and Dazn)
They will take care of completing the picture of the cups Europe e Conference League, only that tonight, unlike what happened in the Champions League, it won't be the first half but the decisive second leg matches. Considering the results of the first leg, the most delicate challenges are certainly those of the black and whites and yellow and reds, called to win against the French and Austrians in order not to prematurely say goodbye to their respective paths.
La Juventus, devoid ofinjured Church (not even summoned due to muscle fatigue), he will have to clear Nantes to avoid, as said by the French coach without too much elegance, a fool: we start from 1-1 in the first leg and therefore, considering that away goals are no longer valid, a victory of any kind is enough. The task of the Roma, and because it has to make up for the loss for 1-0, both for the value of the Salzburg, certainly superior to that of the French. However, the 60 players from the Olimpico will push the Giallorossi, determined to treat themselves to another night of European hangover after last year's experience. Insidious, but feasible, the mission of the Lazio, that will go in Romania strong 1-0 in the first leg, while the Fiorentina should have no problem against the Braga, considering the 0-4 won a week ago in Portuguese soil.
