Inter, Cristian Chivu takes off a pebble: "They were giving us up for finished…"

Cristian Chivu spoke to Dazn microphones after the narrow victory over Genoa that took Inter to the top of the league. At Ferraris it ended 2-1 for the Nerazzurri who closed with a double lead, signed Bisseck-Lautaro Martinez, at halftime. In the second half, Vitinha’s goal was not enough for the Grifone to complete the comeback. “I like to talk about the match, knowing that here it is never easy – began the Romanian coach -For the moment they live, for the intensity they put. I’ll take the performance, the character in the difficulties and the three points that were the most important thing”.

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In the second half, Chivu reversed Akanji with Bisseck: “The reason is the caution, because on the right they were developing less and had one forward in the middle and the other deflected to the left. I chose to leave Manuel on the right so as not to duel with the strikers”. Then he explained the substitutions: “They are made according to the moments of the game, first I had chosen Bonny on 2-0, then I put Marcus in because I needed his structure and because he gave us something extra on the loose balls. I took off Zielinski by putting Manuel central because they would take advantage of the long balls and we could suffer without structure in the middle of the field”.

On the somewhat too emotional aspect of his team, the Nerazzurri coach put it this way: “It is our way of seeing things accepting what is said, knowing that we are aware of what we want to do. We know how much the group cares, how important it is to be there despite the difficulties, the labels and what is said around. We carry on with our work, we try to improve and have a good season, to fight against all that negativity. We move forward with awareness and with work, in the end the work always comes out by mentality, attitude and character”.

Then the Nerazzurri coach took off a pebble: “Five months ago we had to finish eighth or tenth because we were finished, we are fighting for what is our duty. Inconsistencies? You have to maintain some consistency in everything and we are aware of what to do, sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don”.

He closed on the Italian Super Cup, in which Inter will be engaged against Bologna in the second semifinal, scheduled for Friday, December 19, at 8 p.m. Italian time: “We have an important game ahead of us in Riyadh now, we look at nothing else. For better or for worse I always smile because life is always beautiful”.