After the tour of interviews with television, Simone Inzaghi takes a seat in the San Siro conference room to further explore the derby won 1-0 byInter on the Milan through questions from journalists from print media and the Web. The Nerazzurri coach’s statements:
Your analysis, how satisfied are you? Scudetto hope?
“I’m satisfied, I complimented the team because they were perfect. I don’t remember a derby dominated like this. We were coming off Tuesday’s efforts, we had a great derby. Winning two in 20 days doesn’t happen in every year, one of the due gave us a trophy. Let’s not look forward or backward in the standings, let’s enjoy tonight. Then we’ll think about Sampdoria.”
Now that Brozovic is back, how will he be reinstated?
“He fits in wonderfully with everyone, he’s a very strong player who we missed for 4 months together with Lukaku even if someone forgot him. We got through the Champions League group, won the Super Cup and, after a few initial stumbles, after the ko in Rome we would have been almost perfect in the league if it hadn’t been for Monza and the stumbling block with Empoli”.
Lukaku entered very well.
“He wouldn’t have played on Tuesday if I hadn’t deemed him ready. I didn’t give away grandstands, benches and ownership to anyone but the semi-final of the Italian Cup to the club. Dzeko and Lautaro were good, Lukaku entered very well. The spirit of the group is with me like it, let’s keep it up.”
Did you expect Pioli’s 3-5-2 to give up attacking?
“There’s been talk about it these days, but I worried about mine. Every Sunday we meet a 3-man and a 4-man defense, tonight in the first half we bordered on perfection. In the second half we were in control, we conceded the first shot on 75 minutes ‘. It’s a great satisfaction to win two derbies”.
Are you pleased that San Siro has given you a hand in overcoming the Skriniar issue?
“I had no doubts because the Curva Nord is always with us, like the whole stadium: it was a driving force for the team, accompanying us from start to finish.”
