Good evening, Inter fans!
It’s Monday and so Extra Time is back to take another look at Inter v Juventus.
We’ll have tactical analysis and post-match reaction all in the company of Massimo Paganin.
Hi Federica, hi everyone.
And Alberto Santi.
Hi Federica, hi Massimo, hi everyone.
We’ll be looking back at a great Inter performance, the sense of disappointment at having just fallen short
and how playing with ten men affected the team
as well as analysing Inter’s trip to Igor Tudor's Udinese in Week 36 of Serie A.
Let’s start with the sense of disappointment, Massimo
because it must be hard for the players to accept losing in that manner.
It’s a really tough one to digest but they need to do so as quickly as possible.
As we’ll see, Inter had to play for 75 minutes – 85 if you count added time, so nearly a full game – with ten men
and apart from that six-minute spell in which Juve scored the two goals, Inter looked really good.
They didn’t just defend well – they imposed their style of play and fought back from 0-1 to 2-1.
I think the team showed great character.
It’s important there are no aftereffects because there are still three games to go.
It’s a shame a gap has opened up with Lazio
but the battle between Juve and Napoli has shown us that mentally you can’t stop looking forward.
There’s really nothing you can criticise Spalletti’s side for, is there?
No, definitely not.
Perhaps the only criticism you could make would be the first ten or 15 minutes
because we fell behind when it was eleven versus eleven.
Of course, you can accept that kind of mistake against a team like Juventus
because Inter are developing and maturing as a team and it’ll be a long process.
When you’re up against Juve, they can make you pay even if you just make one mistake and that’s how it went to 0-1.
There’s nothing else you can pull the team up on.
They came so close to a deserved win – the fans would have deserved it too.
It’s crazy that Inter have been turning in big performances for a month, since the derby
and in that period they’ve not even got half of what they’ve deserved.
They drew in the derby, lost against Torino, struggled at Atalanta despite having chances to win
and now they've lost against Juventus and that’s how the Champions League race has become more complicated.
It’s a shame – before people complained that Inter played badly and just won 1-0
while now the performance are there but the results aren’t coming.
There are still three games to go and if we maintain the same attitude
we can still qualify for the Champions League
but it doesn’t just depend on us anymore.
Let’s take a look at the table.
Roma and Lazio are four points ahead with three games to go
and as you said it doesn’t just depend on Inter anymore but also on how the other teams do.
Massimo, what did you make of the refereeing decisions and incidents we saw in the game?
In my eyes Orsato had an off night.
I have to say he’s one of the best Italian referees
but he had a bad night tonight because it’s difficult to explain some of the incidents.
I think it was too early to show Vecino a red card given the type of game it was.
It’s a bad foul because Mandzukic has already kicked the ball
but I don’t think there was any malice in it, speaking as a former player.
Obviously the referee saw it differently but he doesn’t put the full weight of his studs on the leg.
He scrapes his foot over his leg and obviously it’s left marks on Mandzukic, I see that.
There is clear contact but he scrapes over the leg rather than stamping down.
I’ve seen some really malicious fouls but this wasn’t one.
The point is that if you use that Vecino sending off as a yardstick, you can’t not book Pjanic.
That’s the point – that’s what I don’t understand.
You can’t use two sets of weights and measures.
You can’t look at the same foul in two lights.
It’s crazy in my eyes. If a kilo weighs a kilo once, it can’t weigh half a kilo the second time around.
Let’s take a look at the bwin odds for Sunday lunchtime’s match at Udinese with Francesca Belussi.
Let me take you through the final result odds for Udinese v Inter.
Udinese are at 5/2 to get the win
you can get 14/5 on a draw and Inter are 3/5 to get the three points.
Punters can get odds of 17/20 on there being more than 2.5 goals in the game
with the same odds available on fewer than 2.5 goals.
More odds are available on bwin.it.
