Lautaro Martinez admits Inter ‘stopped taking part in and didn’t have the identical depth’ after taking a 2-0 lead in opposition to Milan within the Supercoppa Italiana Last, as
The Nerazzurri had been hoping to turn out to be the primary facet ever to win 4 consecutive editions of the Supercoppa Italiana, and felt they had been in an ideal place to try this after going 2-0 up.
Lautaro Martinez and Mehdi Taremi scored both facet of half-time, however Rafael Leao got here off the bench and impressed a complete turnaround from the Rossoneri, with Theo Hernandez’s free kick, Christian Pulisic and the last-gasp Tammy Abraham tap-in.
Lautaro Martinez pissed off by Inter collapse
“The optimistic elements are the primary half, we had gone 2-0 up, however then Inter simply stopped taking part in, didn’t have the identical depth we had till that second and in these video games you pay the worth for that,”
It was so almost 3-1 for the Nerazzurri when Carlos Augusto’s header got here off the upright and partly crossed the road, however Mike Maignan managed to claw it away on the final second.
“I wouldn’t say Milan had been hungrier, as a result of we had a number of extra scoring alternatives with Frattesi, Denzel, Mkhitaryan and extra. Incidents can change the course of the sport, we didn’t take care of these moments properly.
“We misplaced the match, I don’t know if it was deserved, however Milan actually deserve credit score for the actual fact they by no means gave up.”
Remarkably, Inter have misplaced solely three aggressive matches to date this season and two of them had been in opposition to Milan, additionally falling 2-1 in Serie A again in September.
The one facet apart from the Rossoneri who beat them was Eintracht Frankfurt within the Champions League.
“It’s tough to elucidate what occurred. The very first thing I can consider is the stress, as a result of we knew Milan’s finest power was the counter-attack and we didn’t have the correct preventative marking, but in addition didn’t take our probabilities to kill off the sport,” concluded the captain.
