Simone Inzaghi Admits To His Mistake In The Scrappy Win Over Udinese

Written By Onyeka Daniel

Today, at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium, it was a nervy ending to the match between Inter Milan and Udinese, but in the end, the current league leaders were able to take all three points in the 2-1 win to retain their lead and also took the opportunity to consolidate their Serie A leadership against Napoli.

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Marko Arnautovic and Davide Frattesi both scored on Federico Dimarco assists for the important win, as Yann Sommer made huge saves to keep his team in the lead. The home side started the match well and they did break the deadlock with a well-worked team move going right to left including Marcus Thuram, Mkhitaryan and Dimarco.

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The latter then pulled back for Arnautovic to sweep home first-time from 12 yards. They doubled their lead few minutes later as Dimarco again went down the left on a Mkhitaryan pass, this time his cross finding Frattesi to fire in relatively undisturbed from 12 yards, as Arnautovic had drawn defenders away to create the space.

The Friulani tried to respond as Lorenzo Lucca’s header was straight at Yann Sommer. They did pull one back in the second half with a spectacular solo effort, as Oumar Solet rode a tackle in midfield, surged forward and unleashed a screamer from 20 metres out to surprise keeper. Moments later, it was very nearly 2-2.

Lanky forward, Lucca was allowed a free header that Sommer flew to palm out from the near top corner with a stunning save. The Swiss keeper the made another big save in stoppages on Solet’s tap-in from a Simone Pafundi corner, then Simone Inzaghi was sent off for wandering onto the pitch to protest, his second yellow card.

He had already been shown a yellow card earlier on for continuously stepping outside of his technical area, and occasionally onto the pitch to voice his complaints to the referee. It was the same again in second-half injury time, as a furious Inzaghi stepped about five yards onto the pitch to bellow his complaints at the match official.

This resulted in a swift sending off a few minutes from full-time and in his post match interview, the former Lazio manager did not deny the fact that the referee was correct to send him off, explaining that he got angry about the foul on Correa, which he felt led to a goalscoring opportunity for the opponents.

Speaking after full-time, he explained why he got so worked up and why the referees were correct to send him to the stands. “The sending off was right, because I made a mistake, but I got angry about the foul on Correa, because it led to another chance from Solet from the corner that followed. Adrenaline always plays tricks on me.” He said.

He will now be suspended for next week’s Serie A match against Parma. In a related development, the club President, Beppe Marotta believes work on the new stadium shared with Milan could start in 2027 and, if all goes well, the inauguration in 2030. The two clubs have been pushing for the best part of a decade to build a new arena.

The proposed area is currently the car park of the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza at San Siro. After years of being told this was impossible, along with restructuring the existing stadium, with both sides planning new venues outside the city walls, the local authorities returned to Plan A, even though the San Siro would not be entirely demolished.

“Circa 15 days ago we and Milan presented our offer to purchase San Siro and the areas around it from the local authorities, so now there will be a public tender to see if others are also interested in the project,” Marotta told reporters while attending an Inter Club event. “Our objective is to become the owners of this area.”

“There will be the various bureaucratic issues, then if all goes well, work could start in 2027 and – again if all goes to plan – we hope to inaugurate the new stadium in 2030. This is the timescale. I am optimistic, and I think we can make it. There had been many who were and still are against the idea of tearing down such an iconic stadium.”

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“Notwithstanding, Inter and Milan were both adamant that restructuring work would simply be too complicated with both teams playing twice a week. San Siro was a container of emotions, I saw Inter win their second European Cup here in 1965, but we have to think about the future now and that means a modern stadium,” concluded Marotta.

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