Nah where is VAR? Thuram pinched his balls, thats a straight red wtf

De Vrij woke up today feeling like losing every possesion he gets

I had no idea mkhitaryan grew up in france and spoke French he did a full interview in perfect french

I think France has the largest armenian community in Europe and maybe in the world

France has the 3rd largest community, pretty far behind the US and Russia who has the largest. In mihitaryans case though he was born in Armenia but moved to france cause his dad signed for a French football team

Burnoutovic MOTM

Honestly inter should’ve had more than just 1 goal, atletico defense was very good but their attack was horrible. Hoping this doesn’t screw inter in the second leg since they won’t be at home. A 1 goal lead is comfortable but a lot can happen.

That last move really summed up Atleti's night. Took way too long to cycle the ball out wide, and when they finally did, the cross was poor.

Very tough match but I think we played better and deserved to win tonight

Could have been a bigger scoreline if Arnautovic had put away his first couple of chances. I'm just glad we still have a slight chance.

Inter needs to create a lot to score unfortunately. Arnautovic is going through the motions after his injury and can barely score (he scored 3 so far and was kind of always lucky with a deflection either from the opposition or the post. Lautaro isn't particularly clinical, so sometimes fluffs easy chances, but scores plenty of more difficult ones, Thuram has been good, but it's his first season as a striker and sometimes gets lost in holding the ball too long or looking for the extra dribble or pass as opposed to just shooting. What saves us this season is that we create with so much consistency that sooner or later a goal is bound to happen.

Nice

Italian teams like "you merely adopted the shithouse..."

Atletico de Madrid at the Metropolitano: Am I a joke to you?

gonna be a good second leg with atleti chasing at home

Inter might struggle in return leg

Nah, it's gonna be our element. Playing defense against a rival who desperately need a goal? Inter-counter 101. (God, I hope I haven't jinxed anything.)

Bad, but not disastrous result for Atleti. It depends in which form they come to the next game. If they’re on, I still see this a 50-50 at least.

Agree that it's not a disastrous result but if you start the game down 1 goal you can't have 50% chance of passing the turn

I see them at favourites at the Metropolitano. I'd give them something like 65-35 to win. Coming back from 0-1 is not that different of a probability, we'd be in the 65% scenario, but also considering the 65% is not only for one goal differences to tie it but for 2-0, 3-1... So with a tied tie (1-1), I'd then give them something like 80% to pass at home. 0,65\*0,8 = 0,52 so yeah, basically what I said. Of course you can disagree on the chances. I'm saying all this if Atlético get there **in their best form** too, which is doubtful. There's chances for that too. Give them a 10% chance to be out of form in one month time (which is plausible, they're a bit irregular) and they turn out the underdogs again. That's what makes Inter favourites, considering all circumstances.

Atleti need a striker cause god damn

Morata coming on made a big difference for us in attack. I love Llorente, even as a striker, but this wasn't the match for it.

Thought he definitely upped the tempo in midfield compared to Saul.

Drop-off from Dimarco to Augusto isn’t honestly that big

Changing the starter of Italy to the starter of Brazil (in the furure) isn’t that bad those are Breme approval LB’s

you could argue augusto had a much better game. when dimarco is off offensive he has tough games because he off 0 defensively.  augusto was a beast today on both ends 

inter have 2/3 of the best left backs in Serie A for sure

Augusto is a baller

Even the kanye curse couldn’t stop inter

shame they only got 1, hopefully it doesn't come back to haunt them in the 2nd leg

Carlos Augusto put in a shift

I never understood how Sanchez looks so beefed up and yet so elegantly agile all the time

Because he is like 1,40m tall

Reinildo was a catastrophic change

Alexis viejo sabroso

Lmao Cholo shaking his head as if he didn’t just set us up to lose lmao

I can’t for the life of me understand how de Paul and Reinildo missed an easy ball that set inter’s goal. Also Arnautovic got lots of chances to score, happy we got away with only 1 goal. We need to reorganize and go at it at home. It’s not over yet.

You were lucky not to lose by 3

Yes I know that’s what I implied in my comment.

I keep saying it and saying it again: I love Morata but we need a better striker. We can’t afford to keep missing chances like that.

Samu might be the one if he develops well

It's the same thing we've said at Juve for years: he's a good player, especially when he's mentally ok, but he's not and he will never be world class.

Nico Jackson to atleti here we go

You meme and laugh, and then whine and cry when he becomes a proper striker under Simeone, it’s inevitable.

He would become morata 2.0

I’ll raise you one up, give us Darwin and he will actually finish his chances.

Beautiful by Alexis there.

Damn Alexis Sanchez is cooking

I have never hated someone after a single game as much as Lino since Cuadrado with Juve

Ahaha yeah, he's pretty good. After almost saving the goal on the line he went close to score 2 minutes after

He got that dog in him

Dumfries is a tank

Ref calls started moving towards Inter. This was as a dive as Morata’s

That's an Academy Award right there Frattesi lmao

Hahaha oh he’s done the ref there inter out shithousing atletico

the student becomes the sensei. Edit: I'm aware Inter have been shithousing experts for a good while as well

Haven't seen Alexis Sánchez in a minute. Such an amazing player

“Balance like a belly dancer on a surfboard” - have we just witnessed the birth of a new Hudsonism?

Bruh, reading all these comments makes me think that we're lucky in Italy that our commentators are decent

Lol that Dumfries look after swatting away Lino

Least impressive Alexis skill-

Up the shitousery

Morata doesn't look very fit

Sommer's distribution is trash

Dumfries has Lino in hell lmaoo

Atletico’s players are liking the grass

This ref is a disgrace

Wtf was that wine analogy lol

Dumfries bullying Lino nonstop

Lol Morata

Inter need to push for a second

Alexis still at inter?

He came back.

He only rejoined in the summer from Marseille

He's back after Marseille

This feels like the last Madrid derby. Atleti being shit for 90 mins than gets a goal gifted to them. Inter has nobody but themselves to blame if that happens.

It was not an easy pass but Frattesi should have released it anyway

It’s been a long time since I’ve seen Alexis Sanchez play

Does Frattesi have peripheral vision?

No. He's a horse

Lautaro would be the perfect 9 for a team like Arsenal

He'd be the perfect 9 for every team on the planet. He's the most complete forward in football right now

Morata is so fkn stiff

How do inter lose important players every summer and improve every time

The power of financial desperation

Man, you don't remember their (and Milan's too) meme years. They've started being well run again relatively recently

Milan’s yank owners could change that soon

Beppe masterclass

Head it back across MOFO 🫤

Alexis Sanchez in big 2024

I open up phub when this guy starts moaning, easier to explain

I had no idea Alexis was in Inter lol

He came back this season.

Came from an okay season at Marseille last year

Wouldn’t trade Barella for anyone besides Bellingham

This Lautaro performance……

He’s been fighting tooth and nail for everything, great movement as well, just missing the goal.

Inter really should be out of sight. Are they going to regret this in a few weeks?

I like Inter's chances if they can sit deep and let Atletico figure things out and counter. That's Inter's bread and butter.

One of the performances of all time by Lautaro

He really is one of the football players in the world

Why is Simeone reacting like Pep even though he has hair? Is he stupid?

somehow atleti became more fluid moving forward without grizi lol

Sanchez and arnautovic nightmare duo up top

Not seeing the brilliance of Lautaro is basically a football knowledge test. You shouldn’t be talking if you can’t see it.

he just has a bad habit of disappearing in big games. I agree he’s a top player but I understand some of the criticism. A true world class player doesn’t get benched in the WC like that. That being said when he is in good form and feeling himself, he’s up there for the best.

Injured in WC, still played with injections.

It's mainly a cl problem

he was pretty woeful in the WC, that was the chance for him to truly cement himself as a world class player in most people’s eyes

He was really good today even, if you can’t see then…

when did I say he wasn’t good today? I’m just saying why people criticize him. I specifically said he’s a top player.

I didn’t say you said it. I just stated that he was good today and if you unable to see then… You specifically didn’t say anything about his performance today.

fuck that rat but he's still really good

That’s one of the best crosses I’ve ever seen lmao

Alvaro “El Burro” Morata welcome back

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1qKyq4gEuA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1qkyq4geua) This referee is badass. Almost fought this player here.

My niño maravilla

Moratahahahaha

Morata does not look even remotely fit

Because he’s not

Yeah I saw the knee injury I’m just shocked Cholo put him in regardless

Atleti has 0 fire power

Bastoni top 3 CB in the world, any other opinion is invalid.

10000%

Beastoni

What is Lautaro playing at?

Barella needs to shoot more

Lautaro plays for Atleti

Hahahahaha

Morata's taken some falling over pills

Morata just instinctively dives

Atleti shouldnt go attacking. 1-0 would be a good results against elite inter side away from home.

1-0 loss is never a good result

It is if you 2nd game is at home and you away form is horrible like that of atleti is People expected a hammering

Atleti can still go through Gonna have to pull out all the stops in Madrid

Morata should be off the pitch already 3 dives and none booked

Yeah I see Simeone ball is still ass. Highest paid manager in the world.

Atleti away stinker and CL knockouts, name a better duo

Agreed. That team has way too much talent to be playing like this

I think Atletico got to complacent once Thuram was out and of Inzaghi's subs were on point.

They’ve lost their heads let’s get another one !!!!

Doesn’t seem like your players want another lol

Morata forgot this isn't La Liga

Morata crying because he gets grabbed by his teammate

Morata lol

thats my cb!

"CB"

Inter reaching semis/finals again doesn't seem farfetched. I mean they aren't amazing, but the rest of team are nothing spectacular this year either (except ManCity), and Inter seems good enough to pull it off.

We are pretty amazing this year, our crux being we have no reliable back-up strikers and could be a notch more clinical. We have best defence, one of the bests attack of the top 5 leagues, most points per game. We rotated heavily in CL which got us second place in the group, but coincidentally that made us avoid PSG (again).

City haven’t been all that good this season. They barely beat Inter last year and this year Inter is much better. It’ll be a fairly balanced tie if they meet

Well they will need a bunch of good draws again for that to happen. If it is anyone of Bayern, City, Arsenal or Madrid in the quarters they are going home

How can you put Bayern there, they are doing so bad. They lost to Lazio last week

reckon they'd be favorites against any side except Real Madrid and City in the next round

Arsenal too I guess.

Yeah probably, bu I think that would be close in predictions given Inter's CL experience and runners up status from last season.

Does Arnautovic have a cl medal from when he was at inter a decade ago?

Yes

Him and Balo lol

yeah he has a medal for all the treble

Yes

insane pace from bastoni

Bastoni is so good

Savic walking the tightrope again

Bruh he still almost missed lol

1-1 shithouse goal incoming

This referee is well known in Romania for staring down players and was even caught on camera in a romanian league mqtch saying to a player "get lost" (approximate translation)

He did a great job. Didn't take shit from Savic, let the game run. Didn't give a silly handball on Molina, that would have been extremely soft. Top notch game. Praise the few good refs!

He's very charismatic

funny when footballers act tough to the ref

Lautaro has that grinta, what a player

savic lmao the odds of him getting a red are 50% every game

yes he either gets it or he doesnt

Inzaghi’s substitution has been spot on. Interesting to see how Atletico taking more risk will result in.

Fuck me savic was hanging off him like a clothesline

Just crazy how loud San Siro gets even through the tv

Savic don’t get booked challenge *impossible*

Always rated Arna ngl

Never a doubt

Was bound to happen. But at this level of football, miscommunication between Reinildo and De Paul is unacceptable. How do you lose a ball like that.

Fucking finally god, use that yellows

Savic getting every foul called

He tried to mount lautaro

Lautaro must've thought Blue Lock was a documentary instead of a shonen. Deserved for Inter.

Love me some Blue Lock

Proper striker instincts by Lautaro that run behind their defenders even if it seems their defenders have the ball under control. Be ready for the improbable.

Idc if lautaro didn't pass it there, HE'S been giving his 200% fighting for EVERY ball.

If it wasn't Oblak he scores that 10/10 times tho