MANCHESTER (ENGLAND) (ITALPRESS) – “Inter Milan is a historic team with an incredible mentality. They are used to winning,they have such a mentality and they are also capable of disoffending. They are strong physically,they have very good individual qualities in building the game from the bottom. Calhanoglu,Acerbi, especially Barella. It’s a complete team that can win the Italian league and has maintained the structure of the Champions League final.” Thus Pep Guardiola, coach ofManchester City, in a press conference on the eve of theChampions League match against Inter Milan, valid for the first day of the new edition of Europe’s top competition. The Spanish coach then dwelt on Haaland, who has a chance to beat Cristiano Ronaldo as the fastest player to reach 50 goals in this competition (he has reached 41): “He is a fantastic player, I think it would be great, but I also think he will get better and better as the number of games played increases. He will do it naturally, he will grow naturally. I played professionally and will have scored 16 goals in total, he 9 in 4 games now. There is little to say. He’s fine, he feels good here: it all depends on how the next games go, I don’t think he can always score more than one goal a game. But compared to last season he is better and can give his best.” It’s possible that for tomorrow Inzaghi is trying to build a sort of cage: “In case, we will try to overcome this problem,” Guardiola stressed. “It’s normal that they will try to stop him, but we will try to create a system that will lead us to score a lot of goals. For the Citizens’ coach, Inter can compete to win the Champions League: “Lautaro from the Ballon d’Or? Yes, he may be. But I hope a player from our team can win it. He’s an extraordinary striker, he can score, he can do many things, with Thuram he forms a good pair. They make very clear and well executed movements.” The goal for the English is obviously to collect the first three points: “We have to win the first game and then the ones after that, then we will see what happens. We have to start well at home and try to start the season in the best possible way.” Finally, on the precedent of Istanbul, a final that gave ManCity its first Champions: “I watched that game again yesterday for the first time. They were already a very good team and they still are, they kept the same coach and they were exceptional in Italy, they are the strongest in Italy. Simone is a very good coach,” Guardiola concluded.- Photo: Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
