Inter Outdone by Phenomenal Barcelona

Eto’o tries to hold back the tears

What seemed like the per­fect oppor­tu­nity to take the lead in Group F turned out to be a moment of dawn­ing for the Ner­az­zurri. It seemed like it was the per­fect oppor­tu­nity to over­power a weak­ened Barcelona, but now it seems plain that Inter is not in the top tier of Euro­pean football.

The Ner­az­zurri had every­thing set up for them, Barcelona was miss­ing large parts of their defense because of sick­ness, and their key strik­ers Messi and Ibrahi­movic due to injury. Inter needed a sim­ple win, and Barcelona could have been forced down to sec­ond, or even the Europa League, but Inter Milan couldn’t do it. Inter Milan met a hard­work­ing Barcelona, deter­mined to win through team­work even if they were miss­ing key com­po­nents to the squad. This isn’t the first time we see Inter Milan fail to cap­i­tal­ize on the Euro­pean stage, but why are Inter Milan so bleak when play­ing in the Cham­pi­ons League, when we have seen them be spec­tac­u­lar in Serie A? The answer is the men­tal­ity, Inter Milan are scared, they don’t want to try and pres­sure the oppo­nent and play attack­ing foot­ball, they are too scared. Because of this they play a defen­sive, bland,  and uninvit­ing style which rarely wins matches by the glam­orous score-lines that other teams win by. Another prob­lem with Inter’s men­tal­ity is the lack of humil­ity, Rubin Kazan, Dinamo Kiev, and many other teams are hum­ble, and there­fore we see them pros­per against reign­ing Euro­pean Cham­pi­ons and Ital­ian Cham­pi­ons.  Inter Milan went into the Barcelona match think­ing that it was going to be a sim­ple win, and they would breeze past the span­ish giants. Barcelona instead went into the match with humil­ity, play­ing a beau­ti­ful attack­ing game which caused Inter Milan to crum­ble to their feet.

Inter Milan have great tal­ent in the squad, play­ers that are worth mil­lions that are not reach­ing their full poten­tial, Inter Milan need to change their men­tal­ity, and if they don’t, they could eas­ily be knocked out by Rubin Kazan next match. Mour­inho was brought in to win the Cham­pi­ons League, and right now, it looks like we have no chance, maybe Jose Mour­inho isn’t the man for the job.

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