Inter Milan Coach Admits: ‘We All Needed To Do Better In First Half Vs Benfica – Myself Included’ | OneFootball

Inter Milan coach SImone Inzaghi admits that the team, including he, needed to do a lot better to start with against Benfica.

The coach spoke to InterTV after the Champions League clash, via FCInterNews.

Even with the stakes being low, Inter will not have enjoyed the feeling of going 3-0 down against Benfica.

The way that the match was going, the Nerazzurri risked a real embarrassment.

Even if the team had already qualified for the Champions League group stage, the possibility of conceding even more goals would have certainly hurt morale and momentum.

Of course, that’s not what happened.

Inter turned it around in the second half. They responded and snatched a draw that had seemed very unlikely indeed at halftime.

But the fact remains that the Nerazzurri staged that memorable comeback precisely because they had been genuinely poor in the first half.

And coach Inzaghi is the first to blame himself for his own part in the poor performance.

Inzaghi: First To Blame For Poor First Half Vs Benfica

“You know the regard I hold all my players in,” Inzaghi said.

“Today we maybe started out lacking in concentration,” he went on. “And in the Champions League you pay for these things.”

“Then we reorganized,” he continued.

“We said to ourselves that we all had to do more.”

“We had a good reaction which allowed us to equalize,” the Inter coach continued.

“And then if that shot had gone in from Barella it would have been a historic comeback.”

“In the first half we all had to do more,” Inzaghi stressed. Myself included as coach.”

“Tonight we saw great spirit,” the Inter coach added.

“After a bad first half the team showed a great reaction,” he said.

“In the end we kept having hope, because we wanted to bring it home.”