Inter Milan Defender Francesco Acerbi: ‘Doesn’t Matter When We Score, What’s Important Is Playing As A Team & Winning’ | OneFootball

Inter Milan defender Francesco Acerbi feels that it doesn’t matter when the team, so long as they play as a team and win.

The 35-year-old spoke to InterTV ahead of this evening’s Serie A clash away to Torino, via FCInterNews.

Against Bologna in the last match before the international break, Inter got off to a very fast start.

And the Nerazzurri were rewarded for that initial approach. They scored twice within the first fifteen minutes of the match.

However, that impressive opening salvo mattered little given that Inter gave the Rossoblu a way back into the match.

The match finished 2-2, as Bologna built momentum behind a comeback. Then, in the closing stages of the match as Inter desperately pushed for a goal to regain their advantage, they looked blunt in the final third.

Therefore, from the perspective of defender Acerbi, starting like they did against Bologna isn’t the most important thing.

Francesco Acerbi: Doesn’t Matter When We Score If We Win

“We saw against Bologna, where we scored right away, how it ended,” Acerbi said.

“Each match is different, and then there was the international break,” he noted.

“This is a hard ground to come to. And they’re a quick, physical team who like to man-mark one-on-one.”

“We will try to play our game,” Acerbi noted. “We’ll try to get back the points we dropped against Bologna. We’re focused on this, we know it will be a very demanding match but we want to win and score.”

“Whether it’s in the first minute or in the hundredth minute, it doesn’t matter. We have to play it as a team, that’s what matters.”

Acerbi said of this evening’s opponent that “They focus a lot on one-on-one match-ups, so it will be a match that revolves around duels, physical, tough, and there will probably be a lot of stoppages.”

“We have to be careful not to allow them too much of the pitch,” the Inter defender went on.

“And at the same time attack them, because then we can cause problems for them.”