Simone Inzaghi on Inter going top of UCL table with 1-0 Leipzig win
Inter Milan 1-0 Leipzig
26/11/2024
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Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy
Inter Milan 1-0 Leipzig
26/11/2024
Uefa24
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan, Italy
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00:00The next few days will be monitored and they will tell you based on our coach's eye measurement.
00:11Hi Simone, I know you don't like to do these numerical calculations, but do you think that technically we can say that three points are enough for the first eight places?
00:24I don't have this certainty, because we still have to see tomorrow's results, so I don't think 16 points will be enough, but we have to see what happens tomorrow.
00:44There are still three games to go, one in December and two in January. We are on a great path and we have to keep going.
00:57We knew that tonight was a key game for us. After having played four games like this, the fifth and sixth are very important.
01:09Corriere della Sera.
01:11Hi Simone, it's the first time in the history of Inter and the Champions League that you have won four games in a row without conceding a goal.
01:19You are the only team out of 36 that hasn't conceded a goal yet. What does this number mean to you?
01:24It means a lot to these lads, because I think they have all played in the Champions League, they have helped each other, they have suffered when it was needed.
01:40At the moment I am thinking about the Manchester game and the game against Arsenal, but they wanted this league at all costs and they deserve it.
01:49We know that we still have to win, maybe a few more points, because a goal in addition to a goal in minus in a league like this, with this new formula, can change.
02:08I am very satisfied with the team's maturity, because it was a game that I feared a lot.
02:15Looking at the table, I thought that Leipzig would be at zero with other teams, but Leipzig has nothing to do with this table.
02:22Leipzig is a team that in the last six years has played in the Champions League, in 2020 they played in the semi-final and until Saturday they were the best defence in the Bundesliga.
02:34They were second in the table, now they have lost on Saturday, so they are good lads because we have played against a team of absolute value.
02:41Aria, you have underlined that it was a group victory, but do you have anything to say about Zieliński?
02:51Very good. I never like to talk about individuals, but he did very well, like everyone else.
03:03They had to remove a midfielder, Canalo, Gluzeliski and Barella were all doing very well.
03:08He opted to remove a midfielder who wanted to stay in, but he came back from a small problem and I removed him.
03:17They were good, the whole team was good, the substitutes helped us a lot.
03:24The only problem of the evening was Pavard, but we will see in the next few days.
03:39Good evening, coach. I wanted to get back to what you said earlier, about the more or less goals.
03:47In this Champions League we have seen that you score a lot of goals.
03:52How much does it matter at this point in the tournament to have zero goals conceded?
03:58Clearly it matters a lot. We have an excellent net difference, but you know,
04:08by calculating all the others, we will have to see when we get to the last day,
04:16we will have to take into account the various net differences.
04:19But we know, and the lads know, that a goal in more, a goal in less,
04:22if you are 2-0 up, 3-0 down, you go forward, you go back,
04:27we know that you can't allow that, because a goal in more, a goal in less,
04:33can change your place in the final table.
04:38Any other questions?
04:41Simone, Carlo Bianchi, Terfer Tiempo.
04:44What is the difference between playing against three teams in the old Champions League
04:51and playing against eight different teams, in terms of preparation and so on?
04:57The new Champions League formula is more demanding for the lads, for the effort,
05:07but also for us, the coaches and the staff, because before,
05:11with a round of away games, you had to prepare three games,
05:14and on top of that you had your own game against them,
05:17so you had to review your team against the same opponents,
05:21and you knew you had to prepare for the away game,
05:23while now you have, instead of three teams, eight teams to prepare for.
05:28In a day and a half, we arrived on Saturday evening from Verona,
05:32on Sunday we had a partial training session because we hadn't played,
05:35and in just one training session on Monday,
05:38we had to prepare for Ipsa, who is an absolutely valuable opponent.
05:44Last question, please.
05:46Good evening, coach. How important is BISEC, Fresco di Rinnovo?
05:51Today it was called on the spur of the moment, after Pavard's injury.
05:55I see it becoming more and more solid, game after game. Thank you.
05:58It's continuing to grow and it has to continue to work in this way.
06:02Today I could have waited to get it warmed up properly,
06:07but two minutes were missing.
06:09I didn't know how much they could give in the first half.
06:12They gave one minute and I didn't want to play three and a half minutes in ten.
06:17So it came in cold, it came in very well.
06:20Then at the end of the first half it came back in the dressing room for five minutes.
06:24We talked a bit with the whole team and it came out well.
06:27It has to continue to work in this way.
06:29Thank you, good evening.