The Champions League belongs to City but Inter come out with their heads held high. Too many mistakes in attack
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Sorry to say. But the dream, Inter’s great dream, vanished just when he was about to recapture it. When, now at a disadvantage due to Rodri’s goal (69′), Inzaghi’s boys finally understood that this City wasn’t the unbeatable ogre they had feared. No, this City, however extraordinary, this time, in this Champions League final at the Ataturk stadium in Istanbul, was less giant than usual. Less fast. Less bad. A City stunt double we know.
Only that Inter, usually relentless in attack, lacked the coldness and precision of their most ruthless strikers, starting with Lautaro, who already in the first half had thrown away a sensational opportunity born of one of the many defensive blunders in the City, strangely absent-minded and cocky when under pressure.
Inter’s dream vanished when, two minutes after Rodri’s poisonous jab, Dimarco saw his (almost) perfect header bounce off the crossbar on whose development Lukaku then awkwardly bungled. A haunted evening, that of the Belgian, the kind that sometimes happen to him when things go wrong. Bad luck? Performance anxiety? Who knows: maybe both.
It cannot be otherwise explained how, with a few seconds to go, Lukaku was able to miss Gosens’ beautiful side. A few steps away from goal, the Belgian headed in centrally and without force. An unexpected gift that City goalkeeper Emerson immediately neutralized by thanking Big Rom’s generosity.
Head held high, but how much waste
Certainly Inter come out of this challenge with their heads held high, but such a waste, in a final so stingy with conclusions, leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Inzaghi’s team, almost perfect in bridling the action of the British, was instead lacking in the front line, the most ferocious weapon in the last two months. Bad Lautaro, nervous and not very incisive. Bad Lukaku, over the top. His entry, in place of Dzeko, has perhaps brought more “weight”, but also a lot of confusion.
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