Cristian Chivu praised Inter for taking their match towards Slavia Praha critically after they ran out 3-0 winners within the Champions League at San Siro.
Lautaro Martinez scored a brace, netting in every half on both facet of Denzel Dumfries’ purpose to take care of Inter’s good begin to their European marketing campaign.
The Nerazzurri are actually unbeaten throughout their six Champions League video games towards sides from Czechia (W5 D1), solely ever dealing with sides from the Netherlands (13) and Ukraine (eight) extra usually within the competitors with out dropping.
Inter have been in management all through, however notably confirmed their energy within the first half, trying 13 photographs in complete, their most within the opening 45 minutes of a Champions League sport since October 2022 (vs Viktoria Plzen).
Total, they completed with 21 makes an attempt (six on the right track), price 3.7 anticipated targets (xG) to Praha’s 0.1 xG from three photographs, and Chivu was thrilled with Inter’s efficiency.
“The sport was necessary and brought critically. Our angle was regular,” Chivu stated.
“It’s a tightrope, you need to maintain the stability. The boys at all times attempt to have enjoyable; you need to have the best ardour, however with out dropping focus or your angle.
“To me, it looks like they’re rising, however they’ve behaved brilliantly because the starting of the season.”
Marcus Thuram was one in all Inter’s standout performers, getting an help for Dumfries’ purpose, although he was seen limping at full-time.
“He says it’s a cramp. We’ll do some exams [on Wednesday], and we hope it’s nothing critical,” Chivu added of his ahead.
Thuram additionally performed down harm issues, claiming it was a “small factor, nothing critical”.
Inter made it to the ultimate of the Champions League final season earlier than struggling the heaviest-ever defeat in a showpiece match.
This 12 months, they’re given a 7% likelihood of constructing it again to the ultimate by the Opta supercomputer, with only a 3% chance of lifting the trophy, however Thuram is just not pondering that far forward simply but.
“I take issues sport by sport; we’ll see after that,” he instructed Sky Sport Italia. “The Champions League is basically lengthy; we’re solely in September.”