There are two unresolved mysteries in this year’s Champions League competition: the elimination of Napoli and Benfica by Inter and Milan. The Italian and the Portuguese champion play the most attractive (and effective) football in Europe, and yet they somehow allowed themselves to lose to Inter and Milan. But, miracles happen and Nerazzurri are now in their first final since 2010, when they won the competition with Jose Mourinho. They defeated AC Milan for the fourth time this season and deserved to go through.UCL: Lautaro’s goal of the season gives Inter a win and a trip to the finalsAnd after all the talk about Stefano Pioli and his tactical knowledge, the underestimated Simone Inzaghi was better. Nobody gave him a chance when he took over from Antonio Conte, but he made it to the finals, while the former coach never passed the group stage.„In the next few days we might realise what happened. It was a dream at the start, but we always believed, had an extraordinary run and to win the semi-final in a derby this way is immensely satisfying. We can only praise the lads. We played four derbies since January and won all four, we know Milan are the Champions of Italy and have huge quality, but the players were excellent and deserve to enjoy this evening. Since April 1 we have been playing every 48-72 hours, but we reached two finals and got things back on track in Serie A. I am proud to be at this club, I know when I was called what had happened to Inter in recent years. I was asked 19 months ago to reach the Champions League Round of 16, which the club hadn’t managed since 2011. I thought last season’s Champions League run was very good, this one even better. Nobody gave us anything for free, we faced strong opponents and earned our place in the Final” said Inzaghi.️We need to talk about Andre Onana:Most saves in this season’s UCL (44) 🥇️Most clean sheets in this season’s UCL (7) 🥇Kept three consecutive clean sheets against AC Milan 🧤 ️First Inter Milan keeper to keep seven clean sheets in UCL 🧤 pic.twitter.com/0DAalInGsr— ESPN FC (@ESPNFC) May 11, 2023 Unlike Inter, their arch-rivals just blew apart. They lost all four Derby De La Madonina’s this season and are simply not better than Inter. They even failed to score in both games.“There is huge disappointment, let us not beat around the bush. It was a great journey and nobody a side that went out in the group stage last season could reach the semi-final beating teams like Tottenham and Napoli, but we still wanted to reach the Final. There is also disappointment because unfortunately we ruined the semi-final with the first 15 minutes of the first leg. If you start a semi-final and are 2-0 down after 12 minutes, that’s going to make a big difference. It’s true that the final result affects judgment of a performance, but I thought tonight it was far closer to the second half of the first leg, it was largely very even and we just didn’t take our chances. That was our limitation in these two matches“ Milan coach Stefano Pioli told Sport Mediaset.##NAJAVA_MECA_7261852##
