MANCHESTER (ENGLAND) (ITALPRESS) – Ready to go and Inter face the highest mountain to climb. Maybe it’s better that way, because starting well against City would mean giving a strong signal and stamping an important stamp on the path that will accompany the Nerazzurri from now until January. “There’s no need for me to introduce Manchester City,” Inzaghi said in a press conference, “they haven’t lost at home since 2018. We know what we have to do, we have to play a giant game. Running, aggressiveness, determination, we will need many components to make a great match.” Thoughts can only go back to the Istanbul final, one of the Nerazzurri’s finest performances from a tactical point of view, when Inzaghi’s team managed to hold in check a team that seemed unassailable and instead lifted the cup after a struggle that few foresaw on the eve of the match: “I saw it again a week later, not before,” Inzaghi recalled. “Then also a month ago, when we were in training camp and there was the full match on TV. I don’t think it’s a rematch, because it’s not the final, but a group match with a new format of Champions. In the final I think episodes are key and Pep knows that too, but tomorrow starts a new Champions that will be very different: before you had to prepare three round-trip games, now eight different teams. We will try to prepare the match in the best possible way,” Inzaghi added. Needless to think back to the misstep in Monza (“We were under pace. Before Monza I had so many players out and about. We know very well that tomorrow we will have to have another rhythm and another intensity, because in Europe the level rises even higher”), nor dwell too much on the lack of goals by Lautaro, who since the end of February has scored only one goal in the league and who precisely tomorrow night would like to return to put his signature on the most important night: “Absolutely not by chance,” Inzaghi cut in, “he is our captain and he will score a lot of goals for us. We have to evaluate and understand, he arrived almost a month after his teammates, he worked and had a problem. He stopped, then he went to the national team and played two games as a starter. He has traveled a lot, with games and training he will find the best form as well as the goals he has always scored. Lautaro will always be a solution and never a problem for me. “Tomorrow night he will need the best version of his Inter side, the one that took everyone by surprise in Istanbul and now wants to show that it has learned its lesson from the best. After all, Guardiola also said it that Inter can win the Champions League: “We always start to win, then we know there are budgets and other things, but I don’t like alibis. It will be a pleasure to see Pep again, I met him three times and two times I had a very good time, in Istanbul a little less… I think he is the best coach around, he is an inspiration for me. “Equally eager to play is Sommer, who, however, will have to deal with Haaland, one of the worst clients that can happen to a goalkeeper: “He is one of the best strikers around the world,” said the Swiss, “but of the rest we find a very strong team with an exceptional offensive terminal. We have to give a great performance tomorrow against one of the best teams in Europe. We will have to try to play a great game.I am looking forward to playing in the Champions League. We are prepared, we have worked hard for this kind of match. It will take a lot of work, heart, courage to have a great season in the Champions League.”- Photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
