Substitute Real Madrid Rodrygo crashed into the 89th minute winner to win the Champions League Group 1-0 stage for Inter Milan on Wednesday, punishing wasteful Italians for losing a series of opportunities.
Brazilian met with soft bait from a replacement partner Eduardo Camaringa and a volley in the minutes of dying when the side of Carlo Ancelotti won against their main rivals for the top position in the D group.
“This is a very important, very complicated, very complicated victory.
Performance though I saw a mistake.
The team has a good attitude, “Ancelotti said.
“My team knew we had to suffer and suffer what we did – I really liked it.
This team not only has quality, it has a commitment and that is the most important thing.” For Inter, it is a painful conclusion for the game they are dominated for a long stretch but the host cannot find a way to pass the goalkeeper on the Thibaut Courtois form, which produces some important rescue.
The second real group behind Moldovans Sheriff Tiraspol, who surprised Shakhtar Donetsk with a 2-0 victory on his tournament debut and traveled to Madrid next, while Shakhtar and Inter would look for their first points in Ukraine when they met in Ukraine.
“Real and Inter are two favorites for the group but we have taken advantage of this victory.
No one expects the Sheriff to defeat Shakhtar.
You must always be careful,” Ancelotti told Amazon Prime.
Inter and real were used to each other after sharing the group last season, when the Spanish team won twice, but the two teams started a new campaign under this new coach, real with Ancelotti and Inter with Simone Inzaghi.
The Italian champion began at the front foot and was immediately threatened when Edin Dzeko had a shot saved by Courtois, the beginning of what would prove to be a night theme.
Real struggled to overcome it with host aggression and the best was a break, thank Courtois again to dive to stop the header Lautaro Martinez and beat other Dzeko efforts.
The Spaniards have soaked 14 shots by falling hot and they kept coming after the break, when Courtois produced a night rescue by scratching a close-range Dzeko header.
Real grow into the game as Dani Carvajal Stung Samir Handanovic’s Palms with shots and Vinicius twice blocked.
By Milan Skriniar in a dangerous position, and the attack on Rodrygo gave them three points.
“We deserve more.
But if you don’t score, it’s hard to win,” Dzeko said.
“We have our chance.
Courtois is very good, and we are less so, on a certain occasion, but you can’t lose a game like this.
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