Champions League: at 21 Benfica-Inter. Tomorrow Milan-Naples at the San Siro
Inzaghi charges the Nerazzurri: «Da Luz will need a match of head and heart». As for the match at San Siro, all the Rossoneri are available. Finishing with Kalulu, only Ibrahimovic absent. Will Raspadori and Osimhen be missing among the Azzurri?
Simone Inzaghi (Archive)
The Champions League returns and the moment of truth arrives for the Italians.
Today Benfica-Inter
At 21 Benfica-Inter will be played, live on Sky Sport (252) and Sky Sport Uno, as well as on Canale 5.
«We need a competition of head and heart. I have no doubts about the heart, boys have always put it. The head is very important, we must not think about the last few episodes, go beyond luck and bad luck».
Inter coach Simone Inzaghi said this when presenting tonight's match against Benfica (9pm). «We know the importance of the match. We have made a great journey, which has been very difficult. We have to have a great race. Benfica have never lost in the Champions League, they have scored 28 goals, they are a quality team. But we are Inter, we have prepared well».
Probable formations
Benfica (4-2-3-1) : 99 Vlachodimos; 2 Gilberto, 66 Antonio Silva, 91 Morato, 3 Grimaldo; 61 Florentino, 22 Chiquinho; 20 Joao Mario, 27 Rafa Silva, 8 Aursens, 88 Gonçalo Ramos. (24 Soares, 4 Veríssimo, 5 Domingues, 7 David Neres, 19 Tengstedt, 21 Schjelderup, 23 Ristic, 87 Joao Neves). Schmidt coach.
Inter (3-5-2) : 24 Onana; 36 Darmian, 15 Unripe, 95 Staves; 2 Dumfries, 23 Barella, 77 Brozovic, 22 Mkhitaryan, 32 Dimarco; 10 Lautaro Martinez, 9 Dzeko. (1 Handanovic, 21 Cordaz, 5 Gagliardini, 6 De Vrij, 8 Gosens, 11 Correa, 12 Bellanova, 14 Asllani, 32 Dimarco, 45 Carboni, 90 Lukaku). Coach S. Inzaghi.
Referee : Michael Oliver (England).
Tomorrow Milan-Naples
If Napoli cannot have Raspadori and maybe they won't even have Osimhen on the bench, in Milan everyone was there in the morning training at Milanello, in view of the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals, scheduled for tomorrow evening at the Meazza stadium of San Siro against Napoli. Confirmed the presence of Pierre Kalulu, who had already worked with the group yesterday. Absent Zlatan Ibrahimovic (struggling with the injury sustained with the Swedish national team), the players not included in the Champions list did not train with the group: Dest, Bakayoko, Vranckx, Tatarusanu and Adli.
