Wambo
Active member
Still butthurt about the 1-4 from last season much?
It's crazy how much abuse the guy gets from he fan base here.
CL Semi Final: Inter - Barca 4-3
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It's crazy how much abuse the guy gets from he fan base here.
It's part of football, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose.
Now we might either win or lose the CL final. Losing sucks, winning is great, sometimes both happen.
We might meet again next season and maybe you win.
We, Inter, are not a stellar team, but a tactical system of play. Whilst against Barcelona the difficulty is to stop some great, unstoppable players, the difficulty vs Inter is stopping our system of play.
We don't have amazing stars and yet, surprisingly, that is our strength. It puts other, even more talented, teams at a loss when they don't know who they will exactly have to stop. No point of reference, basically. We are a shadow team where no player is a star, but everyone is a shadow who can surprise the opponent, while the team's organization excels.
I believe the above mentioned part is what some good Barcelona fans hadn't considered before the games.
PSG is more talented than us too, just like Bayern and Barcelona were. We will set up our tactical playing system and hopefully surprise PSG similar to how we surprised you and Bayern (on paper better teams)
Now we might either win or lose the CL final. Losing sucks, winning is great, sometimes both happen.
We might meet again next season and maybe you win.
We, Inter, are not a stellar team, but a tactical system of play. Whilst against Barcelona the difficulty is to stop some great, unstoppable players, the difficulty vs Inter is stopping our system of play.
We don't have amazing stars and yet, surprisingly, that is our strength. It puts other, even more talented, teams at a loss when they don't know who they will exactly have to stop. No point of reference, basically. We are a shadow team where no player is a star, but everyone is a shadow who can surprise the opponent, while the team's organization excels.
I believe the above mentioned part is what some good Barcelona fans hadn't considered before the games.
PSG is more talented than us too, just like Bayern and Barcelona were. We will set up our tactical playing system and hopefully surprise PSG similar to how we surprised you and Bayern (on paper better teams)
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MonteCuler
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Those who don't regulary watch Serie A don't know the extent to which some questionable calls go their favour
With all the praise and how well they play, there is no doubt they have a significant, maybe unusual and suspicious dose of luck in their pocket
If luck follows the brave, Inter has to be Spartans
Inter got a bit lucky, sure. If Acerbi hadn't scored, or if Yamal hadn't hit the post, Barcelona would have gone through.
And you guys would have been deserved winners too. Both teams were.
The cruelty of football is that only one can go through.
To the unattentive eye, Inter will have reached the final by luck. But you don't reach the CL final (or even semifinal) by luck alone. Not when you also had some of the best statistics in the group stage with goals conceeded.
Inter's style can be misunderstood because of the surge of possession football of the recent years. Inter, on the other hand, wants you to get possession.
When it gets the ball, it cares not for it and will try to be as concrete as possible using the space you have left open with few direct passes.
Players rotating their positions at all time will make it difficult for the opponents to predict players' movements.
If there was a slogan it would be "To you the ball, to us the goals".
It is hardly even defensive, because they conceed possession to others not as a way to defend, but as a way to win the game. Inter won't wait with the ball for a space to create. It will wait for a space while YOU have the ball, and then play in a very direct, vertical way (as opposed to the horizontalism of possession football).
It's a complete antithesis of possession football. It is not better nor worse, just different. It doesn't require players as talented as Yamal but, on the other hand, extreme discipline and motivation.
It was an amazing set of games and I feel genuinely sorry for you guys that you didn't go through, because you deserved it too.
Sometimes football is cruel.
Maybe we will meet next year.
And you guys would have been deserved winners too. Both teams were.
The cruelty of football is that only one can go through.
To the unattentive eye, Inter will have reached the final by luck. But you don't reach the CL final (or even semifinal) by luck alone. Not when you also had some of the best statistics in the group stage with goals conceeded.
Inter's style can be misunderstood because of the surge of possession football of the recent years. Inter, on the other hand, wants you to get possession.
When it gets the ball, it cares not for it and will try to be as concrete as possible using the space you have left open with few direct passes.
Players rotating their positions at all time will make it difficult for the opponents to predict players' movements.
If there was a slogan it would be "To you the ball, to us the goals".
It is hardly even defensive, because they conceed possession to others not as a way to defend, but as a way to win the game. Inter won't wait with the ball for a space to create. It will wait for a space while YOU have the ball, and then play in a very direct, vertical way (as opposed to the horizontalism of possession football).
It's a complete antithesis of possession football. It is not better nor worse, just different. It doesn't require players as talented as Yamal but, on the other hand, extreme discipline and motivation.
It was an amazing set of games and I feel genuinely sorry for you guys that you didn't go through, because you deserved it too.
Sometimes football is cruel.
Maybe we will meet next year.
KingLeo10
Senior Member
Ok, I'm starting to like your posting. That's a fair take, and congratulations for the final.
Thank you.
I also understand if some of you will support PSG in the final, it is only human.
I would also have found it hard to support Barcelona if we had lost ... it's understandable.
I don't know what PSG will do, or how strong they are. I feel like Barcelona is more talented than PSG, but PSG has maybe a better defence.
We know Kvara well because we played against him often in Italy, and he doesn't worry me like Yamal.
Yamal was the player that scared me the most since I ever started watching football. The pitch is like an ice ring for him, where he elegantly skates and that's ridiculously over-powered. The speed of his shooting-execution is insane too.
One last message (until next year, if we meet!), since there was some controversy when i first joined, and even some of my posts didn't help.
We Inter fans (at least from Italy, I don't know internationally) don't want to be at a war with Barcelona. I like Barcelona, you have produced some of the most entertaining football in history through many decades!
Sure, we are happy to win, but there is nothing to settle between Inter and Barcelona (although maybe a bit of rivalry as a result of these games).
We want to (hopefully) win the CL and settle matters with Juventus and Milan fans ... similar to how you would want to settle them with Madridistas!
I find Barcelona a likeable club, you have a very bright future ahead of you, a crazy strong talent like Yamal who is sure to bring many satisfactions and victories to you in years to come.
I apologize if some of my posts appeared edgy or provocative. You are a great team, and what I learnt from these sets of games is that you can, in my opinion, start another victorious era full of trophies.
If we meet again, we might see again.
Until then, good luck against Madrid and for all your future games.
Ciao!
We Inter fans (at least from Italy, I don't know internationally) don't want to be at a war with Barcelona. I like Barcelona, you have produced some of the most entertaining football in history through many decades!
Sure, we are happy to win, but there is nothing to settle between Inter and Barcelona (although maybe a bit of rivalry as a result of these games).
We want to (hopefully) win the CL and settle matters with Juventus and Milan fans ... similar to how you would want to settle them with Madridistas!
I find Barcelona a likeable club, you have a very bright future ahead of you, a crazy strong talent like Yamal who is sure to bring many satisfactions and victories to you in years to come.
I apologize if some of my posts appeared edgy or provocative. You are a great team, and what I learnt from these sets of games is that you can, in my opinion, start another victorious era full of trophies.
If we meet again, we might see again.
Until then, good luck against Madrid and for all your future games.
Ciao!
Temptation
Well-known member
Class fan. Class club.
I fell in love with Inter in the treble season. Easily my favourite Serie A club.
The stories are so similar. Ageing players that were underappreciated for most of their careers with the hunger and a chip on their shoulder to prove everybody wrong.
Sure Inzaghi is no Mourinho but still a brilliant tactician.
Hope Inter demolish Qatar FC. Forza Inter. 💙🖤
Temptation
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@Richard.H Told you. Called it.
Horatio
You're welcome
Congrats on the win. It was an epic clash. Good luck in final.
Temptation
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Yup. Well said. The posters who hyped up Thuram, Dumfries, Sommer and Inzaghi before the tie started were spot on.
Horatio
You're welcome
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