Inter - Genoa (4 Mar 24) [2-1]

[Besnik]

Line-up looks solid despite of rotation, let's do this

 

[Dave54]

Arsenal?

Not really. But you can sub Arsenal for Atletico or Dortmund.

 

[Forzanerazzurri]

Not really. But you can sub Arsenal for Atletico or Dortmund.

Dortmund is terrible. C'mon.

 

[Dave54]

No surprises with starting 11.

 

[wera]

It requires sun, star, moon and planets align for us to win Scudetto and CL, I honestly don’t care if we are kicked out in this round in CL or are kicked out in the semifinal only winning trophy counts. We simply don’t have the depth to win CL unless we can secure the scudetto mathematically early. It’s incredibly difficult to win with the bench that we have.

CL brings money. Money brings security and better players.

If we don't try to go as far in CL every season, even if we don't win anything, the Scudettos will also dry up sooner than later.

 

[Dave54]

We already won 12 mil for Supercoppa. If we make it to finals, there would be enough money to buy Monza’s goalie.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

It requires sun, star, moon and planets align for us to win Scudetto and CL, I honestly don’t care if we are kicked out in this round in CL or are kicked out in the semifinal only winning trophy counts. We simply don’t have the depth to win CL unless we can secure the scudetto mathematically early. It’s incredibly difficult to win with the bench that we have.

We had to go on a run late last season domestically just to finish in the top-4, it was looking very unlikely until that end of season run got us into 3rd place. We did that while making our CL run, admittedly not against the toughest of opposition but we still had to win over 180 minutes three times to get to the final and that meant putting our best foot forward there three times.

I'm not saying it's likely, there is no team in the CL right now with a >50% chance of winning the competition. But other than PSG, there isn't a team in the competition right now that is in a position where they can begin to turn more attention towards the CL because they've wrapped up their league either. Real Madrid is only +7 right now (+8 on Barcelona with a H2H remaining), that's still a fight. Both City and Arsenal have a tough fight on their hands for the Premier League along with Liverpool of course. Bayern might actually be "out of it" in the Bundesliga for the first time in over a decade but the expectation to fight to the end is still going to be there no matter the odds, they won't be allowed to give up. And even other clubs that aren't in the running for their league like Dortmund and Napoli are still going to be fighting for trying to finish in CL spots for next year's edition (odds are against Napoli but they did finally just win consecutive games for the first time since September and they still have a squad capable of much more than what they've shown). The point being, every other club that you might think of as a challenger still has more of a two-front battle to fight than we do. Of course we can't just say "fuck it" to Serie A yet, lose a few games and that margin becomes far less comfortable, but we're in the best position of anyone to be able to put more and more eggs in the CL basket and, from there, I stand behind what I've already said that we have just about as good a chance of any team head-to-head of going for it all. We already saw it against Manchester City last year, a narrow defeat where, by all accounts, we more than held our own and the bounces just didn't go our way. Can't change what happened last year, but we have reason to believe we can play against them should we meet again.

Obviously none of the rest matters unless we get past Atleti next week, which isn't guaranteed. But while "we simply don't have the depth" is true to some degree, we overcame it last year and I have no reason to think we can't overcome it this year, short of getting ravaged by injuries which would derail any team. At this point, I'm choosing to believe, which is dangerous territory for me because I tend to skew glass-half-empty (you can see my vote in the "who wins the Scudetto" thread from a month ago, and it wasn't Inter that I chose). I'm convinced with this team, I'm convinced with this manager. As long as the Zhang's don't screw us again this summer, this squad is capable of amazing things.

 

[bubba zanetti]

Name three better teams in the CL this year then. Tell me my lie.

Well, Sociedad is the first one. They finished first on our group. Way to go my friend, lets beat Atletico first, to claim something like that.

 

[Ethor]

Inzaghi knows a victory today over Genoa is important. No real surprises with the lineup. Smack them early and often then put on the subs and/or some fitness training for those coming off the injury list in the 2nd half. Forza Inter.

 

[Kramerica Industries]

Well, Sociedad is the first one. They finished first on our group. Way to go my friend, lets beat Atletico first, to claim something like that.

Real Sociedad, who did not beat us in either meeting we had against them (they finished first because they had better margins of victory against Benfica and Salzburg), who sit 7th in La Liga and are 18 points behind the last CL spot for next season's edition, who are 1-4-4 in their last nine games (all comps), and you're choosing to use the basis of their wins over Benfica and Salzburg compared to ours to say they're objectively better than us.

Well, I'm not gonna argue this.

 

[Besnik]

Well, Sociedad is the first one. They finished first on our group. Way to go my friend, lets beat Atletico first, to claim something like that.

Sociedad has shown quite solid performances in CL but that doesn't make them a better team than Inter. That's a wrong logic to even begin with.

Inter has never played at their 100% in the group stage matches. We have seen real Inter against Atletico in the first leg, and everyone saw how competitive Inter was, and how unlucky were to finish the game only by 1-0 after all that domination.

Dortmund finished the group ahead of PSG, but that doesn't mean they are stronger. Or let's say, Sassuolo managed to defeat both Inter and Gobbi, but they are still likely to get relegated because they have complete garbage. Football is so unpredictable with events and circumstances.

 

[brakbrak]

Line-up looks solid despite of rotation, let's do this

Tbh there's nor much rotation lol all the starters not playing are injured or suspended.

 

[Gal]

We had to go on a run late last season domestically just to finish in the top-4, it was looking very unlikely until that end of season run got us into 3rd place. We did that while making our CL run, admittedly not against the toughest of opposition but we still had to win over 180 minutes three times to get to the final and that meant putting our best foot forward there three times.

We had the easiest route to a CL final seen in years. In fact I can hardly remember an easier route the past 10 years. That sort of luck is something that happens so rarely for any given team, on top we were already out of the champions race so we could focus more on CL so we could afford loosing points in the league as there where no championship on the line we just had to scrape enough points together to stay in top 4. This isn’t something we can do now, as winning the scudetto is multitude more important than getting any further in the turnment.

I'm not saying it's likely, there is no team in the CL right now with a >50% chance of winning the competition. But other than PSG, there isn't a team in the competition right now that is in a position where they can begin to turn more attention towards the CL

We cannot turn out attention more then anyone else, we have not won the scudetto yet, with that mentality you and similar minded have we would drop that scudetto in an epic style on the floor. A scudetto is not won before it is mathematically so. We can still run into bad form and loose points, we need to take as many points possible as long we are playing well.

because they've wrapped up their league either. Real Madrid is only +7 right now (+8 on Barcelona with a H2H remaining), that's still a fight. Both City and Arsenal have a tough fight on their hands for the Premier League along with Liverpool of course. Bayern might actually be "out of it" in the Bundesliga for the first time in over a decade but the expectation to fight to the end is still going to be there no matter the odds, they won't be allowed to give up. And even other clubs that aren't in the running for their league like Dortmund and Napoli are still going to be fighting for trying to finish in CL spots for next year's edition (odds are against Napoli but they did finally just win consecutive games for the first time since September and they still have a squad capable of much more than what they've shown). The point being, every other club that you might think of as a challenger still has more of a two-front battle to fight than we do. Of course we can't just say "fuck it" to Serie A yet, lose a few games and that margin becomes far less comfortable, but we're in the best position of anyone to be able to put more and more eggs in the CL basket and, from there, I stand behind what I've already said that we have just about as good a chance of any team head-to-head of going for it all. We already saw it against Manchester City last year, a narrow defeat where, by all accounts, we more than held our own and the bounces just didn't go our way. Can't change what happened last year, but we have reason to believe we can play against them should we meet again.

We can’t allow to drop point as the scudetto isn’t wrapped up
Yet, this is something you can do when that is the case but not a minute before, it doesn’t matter if you lead by 3 or 12p you just have a bigger margin to play with but no one can allow to hit the break yet as nothing is wrapped up at this point

Obviously none of the rest matters unless we get past Atleti next week, which isn't guaranteed. But while "we simply don't have the depth" is true to some degree, we overcame it last year and I have no reason to think we can't overcome it this year, short of getting ravaged by injuries which would derail any team. At this point, I'm choosing to believe, which is dangerous territory for me because I tend to skew glass-half-empty (you can see my vote in the "who wins the Scudetto" thread from a month ago, and it wasn't Inter that I chose). I'm convinced with this team, I'm convinced with this manager. As long as the Zhang's don't screw us again this summer, this squad is capable of amazing things.

 

[RotterdamNerazzurri]

Let’s win this! Genoa was the last side we lost points against. Not gonna be easy. Forza Inter!

 

[Suraj]

anyone know why the dumbass curva are protesting?

 

[wyze]

Forza Inter!!!

 

[Besnik]

FORZA INTER

 

[wera]

Lol at Metallica playing at the Stadium

 

[pupivn]

Frog is here

 

[Gal]

Lol to the sponsort

Ninja turtle lol