Simone Inzaghi, honeyed words for Yann Aurel Bisseck

It’s a visibly satisfied Simone Inzaghi who appeared in the press room at the San Siro after his Inter team’s success against Arsenal, 1-0, on the fourth day of the Champions League Phase. It’s especially the defense, which has yet to concede a goal in Europe, that gets compliments from the coach from Piacenza.

“Since I have been coaching Inter, we are the team with the most matches without conceding goals in the Champions League, è a figure of great importance – he said. Today è was a night to remember because we won in front of fans who were able to cheer us on for the entire 90 minutes and beyond. It’s been great to collect their applause”.

Speaking of the individuals, Inzaghi reserved honeyed words for Yann Aurel Bisseck, who confirmed the solidity he had already shown against Young Boys, playing as he did on that occasion as a starter: “For me è a very strong player,” he said, “if he plays a little bit less è because there are other very strong defenders. Forò è one who has done his against Manchester City and Arsenal, he does not have to prove anything to me”.

“Among other things, in the last few days, he had a little physical problem and played bandaged up – added Inzaghi, speaking again about the German defender -. Very good of him not to be conditioned and very good of the doctors and physiotherapists as well: at the end of the first half he was theè with the ice bag, but he told me he would not give up and è he was of his word”.

Champions League, results and standings

Besides the one between Inter and Arsenal, won by the Nerazzurri 1-0 with Calhanoglu’s goal on a penalty kick at 48′ of the first half, Wednesday’s Champions League offered another big match, the one between PSG and Atletico Madrid: Diego Simeone’s men were styati to win, who after equalizing with Molina on 18′ the goal scored on 11′ by Zaire-Emery completed the comeback in extremis, on 93′ thanks to Angel Correa’s goal.

Then Barcelona’s magical moment continued, as it overwhelmed Red Star with a clear 5-2 at home: back-and-forth between Inigo Martinez, in goal on 13′, and Silas, author of the 1-1 on 27′ then è only Barça with Lewandowski scoring on 43′ and 53′ while Raphinha on 55′ and Fermin Lopez on 76′ completed the ‘manita’. The Belgraders’ second goal, scored by Milson at 84’84’, was inconsequential.

Raising its head again, right after the heavy knockout against Barcelona the previous day, Bayern Munich beat Benfica 1-0: Musiala’s decisive goal at 67’s. It goes less well for the other German in the field, Stuttgart, which loses 2-0 at home to Atalanta (in goal Lookman at 52′ and Zaniolo at 88′), while Brest, thanks to Edmilson Fernandes’s goal at 37′ and Kairinen’s own goal at 80′, beats Sparta Prague 2-1 in the Czech capital (Olatunji’s goal at 92′ is not enough).

Important in the lower part of the standings was Salzburg’s 3-1 win at home to Feyenoord: Konaté scored at 47′ of the first half and 58′, before missing a penalty kick at 85′ just before Guindo’s tic-tac-toe and rendering useless the momentary 1-2 goal scored by Hadj Moussa at 81′ minute. Feyenoord also had the evening’s only sent off, Nadje, at 80’80’.

Two other matches had been played in the late afternoon: with a penalty caused by Mings’s blatant ingenuity and scored by Vanaken at 52′, Club Brugge beat Aston Villa 1-0, while Young Boys were not enough to go ahead with Imeri at 27′ against Shakhtar, which on the neutral of Gelsenkirchen passed 2-1 with goals by Zubkov at 31′ and Sudakov at 41′.

This is the standings after four games (there are as many to go before the conclusion of the League Phase): Liverpool 12; Sporting, Monaco, Brest and Inter Milan 10; Barcelona, Borussia Dortmund and Aston Villa 9; Atalanta 8; Manchester City, Juventus, Arsenal, Bayer Leverkusen, Lille, Celtic and Dinamo Zagreb 7; Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Benfica, Milan, Feyenoord, Club Brugge and Atletico Madrid 6; PSV 5; PSG, Sparta Prague, Stuttgart and Shakhtar 4; Girona and Salzburg 3; Bologna 1; Leipzig, Sturm Graz, Young Boys, Red Star and Slovan Bratislava 0.

Virtus Bologna joins Trento at 12

It’s ended with Virtus Bologna&#39s 85-81 success over Tortona in the recovery of the fourth day of the Serie A basketball championship. A result that allows the Felsinei to regain the top of the standings, remaining unbeaten as Trento with 12 points to their credit, but that does not satisfy one hundred percent coach Luca Banchi, who has something to say about the errors at the beginning of the game and the attitude proposed in the final.

“A challenging schedule, which forces us to find the energy to play every night,” began the Vu nere head coach. In the first minutes today we had objective difficulties, lost balls, defensive errors: then we grew exponentially, I è liked the level of energy put on the court”.

“This then allowed us to continue on that track, reaching a lead that seemed reassuring: the game seemed closed to us and we lifted our foot off the’throttle too much, with macroscopic errors especially in offense at a time of the game when you need to have cynicism and experience to close it” then Banchi commented, admonishing his own.

“Remaining full score is not è obvious and trivial, I told the guys as well: tonight I tried to change quintets to try to keep the proper energy, è complicated becauseè to that you have to add qualityè in the game. It è not easy even for experienced players at this level but we keep pushing and making progress” concluded the Virtus coach.