Champions Inter defeat Milan and reach the final. Yesterday’s game is one of those that will go down in the history of the Milan derby, the most important in the world. The Biscione won and took a historic revenge: twenty springs ago the ambitions of theInter the Stars They were wiped out by a double draw against a strong, brave and somewhat lucky Milan. It was 2003 that decided the away goal, a legacy of real football that nods to the past. Today, on the other hand, we don’t rely on numerical calculations, Inter were simply in a different category: a cumulative 3-0 that doesn’t need further analysis. Riding the long wave of a restful April, the Nerazzurri found their perfect form at the season’s defining moment: eight straight wins to clear a maze of a thousand pitfalls and head straight to the shores of the Bosphorus. If the unbeaten streak has been going on since mid-April, it took shape much earlier in the city: in 2023, Inter took the home sideoutdoors of wins in derby going beyond the tennis score with a 7-0 win in four games: the devil has never fasted so long. Now the sweetest final of the season: the Italian Cup final and the Champions League final, and a league to be honored with the certainty of a superiority now impossible to hide. A strength of team against 11 unpredictable defeats in Serie A, certainly less bitter today given the luster of this trophy with mumps. Thus, the dream becomes the goal, the impossible becomes the desirable: to give his fans the joy he has experienced three times in 115 years and to reconnect the thread lost after Madrid to shape an international future.
Champions Inter beat Milan and reach the final, two games a go
Dzeko and Mkhitaryan – a Bosnian and an Armenian, both over 30 – needed ten minutes in the first leg to decisively decide qualification. Ten minutes of firing during which the Nerazzurri cornered Milan with pressing and high recovery, doubling with dribbling after loosening their legs and head thanks to the dead ball net. That’s what the devil looking for a comeback writer should do when he comes back. The force The beginning dissipates as the minutes go by and people don’t have the best of evenings: Brahim’s effervescence stays in the bottle, Leao seems to tremble at the thought of the infirmary. The Portuguese holds back a few tears and fires a volley after about 40 minutes: he returns down the left flank and burns Acerbi, but is too far away to fish the left flank into the far post. From that moment, the Nerazzurri managed the white goals and only Maignan kept Milan afloat with amazing interventions. In the second half, the nervous fatigue of the Rossoneri begins to make itself felt, the qualitative gap widening as a result in favor of Inzaghi’s men: Tonali, constantly chased by an omnipresent Barella, loses too many balls and is no longer capable of the to be lighthouse; After neutralizing Theo in the first leg, Dumfries manages both with Leao, asserting his physique in the face of the Rossoneri’s unspoken technique down the left; Giroud, once spinning at every turn, is trapped in Acerbi’s defensive cage and suffering from Calhanoglu’s comebacks. In short: there was no challenge in the competition. But there’s a clear winner on the substitutes’ benches too: Pioli, who was responsible for Napoli’s madness in the spring, couldn’t find dams to contain his cousins; Inzaghi, on the other hand, perfectly transferred his plan from the blackboard to the green rectangle, proving once again that he is a master of the inside out. A master who faces the most demanding test, the Champions League final.
Champions Inter defeat Milan and reach the final, the revenge is complete
The date is May 10, the Atatürk Olympic Stadium in Istanbul, the first guests are the eleven knights dressed in black and blue. The lady who is supposed to take you to the big ball is missing: City or Real? The strongest or the most legendary? Let’s not be swayed by Shakespearean questions: choosing between Guardiola and Ancelotti is like choosing English soup or tiramisu. Simone, who comes from a young but important career, will be able to prove his qualities with one of the two football professors. Even with the greatest realism, he throws down a gauntlet: “Whoever something happens to you, you are doing something wrong. Maybe we’ll be underdogs, but they’ll find Inter who will fight for it.” A challenge Lautaro sets after the World Cup Sky blueHe wants to live as a protagonist: “Now we have to go to Istanbul and get the trophy: we’re there, we have to make it.” The goalscorer of dreams plays the attack that brings the Nerazzurri people closer to ecstasy: it’s his left Foot at the near post that not even the Maignan cat can avoid, as if it were a sentence already written. The bull, who cried disconsolately after the scudetto went to his cousins, will be moved with the armband today after this rematch that will go down in history. Dimarco, a Nerazzurri heart standing on the corner in sad 2003, savors the moment: “I promised you 20 years ago at the San Siro. Today we have put things right: we are Milan!” he writes on Instagram. Zhang, less institutional than usual, beams, “Let’s keep making history. See you in Istanbul, come on folks!” An ideal present for President Massimo Moratti on his birthday: it is thanks to him that Inter has been undermining the city’s hegemony in the European area of Milan for three decades now.
