“Everything happens very quickly in football: we are at the top of the championship, we have taken a small advantage, but there are 14 matches remaining, or 42 points,” Inzaghi declared at a press conference. “In twenty days, everything can change, including the judgment on our season. We’ve had a good first six months, but there are still three months left (before the end of the season) and these are the most important. I constantly repeat it to the team,” he continued.
Inter dominates Serie A with twenty victories in 24 matches and is after the 25th day nine points ahead of its first pursuer, Juventus Turin, and eleven over AC Milan, third. “We achieved something strong last season in the Champions League by reaching the final (1-0 defeat against Manchester City, Editor’s note). We of course want to do it again, but there are big teams who want the same thing, starting with Atletico,” noted Inzaghi.
“It’s going to be a great duel, a very, very complicated duel against a team which produces very good football under the leadership of a very great coach,” he admitted, referring to Diego Simeone, who was his teammate at Lazio Rome between 1999 and 2003. “It’s a pleasure to have him back as an opponent (…) We never lost touch. We knew (when he was a player) that he would become a great coach, you just have to see what he has achieved since 2011 at the head of this club. It’s always a pleasure to watch Atletico play,” he insisted.
Marcus Thuram will also meet up with an old acquaintance, his teammate in the French team, Antoine Griezmann. “We know that Antoine is an incredible player. The problems he can pose, it is the whole team that must resolve them, it is not up to a single player to take care of them,” warned the French striker from Inter. “We are going to start this match as we start all our matches this season: to win it,” he concluded.
