According to Tasnim news agency, the Inter football team could not win its second European game this season either. Nerazzurri, who lost at home to Real Madrid in the first week of the Champions League, played at Shakhtar Donetsk last night (Tuesday) and agreed to a goalless draw. Of course, the positive point of this game was the recording of the first point and the first European clean sheet in the record of Simone Inzaghi’s students, in which Niccolo Barla hit the ball once to the crossbar and the other two late positions of Nerazzurri by Joaquin Correa and Stephen Difrey due to good reactions of the goalkeeper. The opponent did not turn into a goal. At the same time, the statistics showed that Shakhtar excelled in possession of the ball, while a 100% home goal situation was miraculously saved by Inter defender Milan Eschriniar, less than one meter away from the goal.
“We had a good team that had a lot of possession,” Simone Inzaghi told Sky Sports Italia at the end of the game. Of course, we must also blame ourselves for wasting opportunities. We could have finished the game better than that, because we had five clear scoring opportunities, but we did not offer our best performance. I think Inter could have won the game.
Inzaghi added: “Laotaro Martینnez and Edin Dzeko really served the team with all their might. Correa and Alexis Sanchez have also just been released from injury. We played the whole game and we knew it would be a dangerous game.
“Shakhtar is an unpredictable team,” the former Lazio boss concluded. For this reason, given the opportunities we created in this game, we had to score more goals. The ball hit the crossbar and their goalkeeper had an extraordinary reaction. Let’s see what happens in our next game in San Siro.
Inter’s next Champions League match next month is at home to Moldova’s surprise team Sharif, who have won both of their games against Shakhtar and Real Madrid in Spain and top the Group D table.