Inzaghi’s Inter have “many regrets” after Real Marid defeat

had to win against

to take the top place in the group but both sides had already gotten to the next round of the

.

Toni Kroos

and

Marco Asensio

played remarkably and found the target to seal Los Blancos’ victory and their place on top of the group.

“

There are many regrets, especially as we did well in the first half, showed character, creating several chances and the statistics were in our favour, but we went into the break a goal down,”

Simone Inzaghi

told

Sky Sport Italia

.

“That did not reflect what we saw on the pitch, clearly we wanted a different result, but this will certainly help as experience for the future.”

Nicolo Barella had to be sent off after a reaction foul following Eder Militao barging him into the advertising boards.

“Barella made a serious mistake, but he is intelligent, he recognised his error and apologised to the staff, his teammates, everyone. The game was still open at 1-0, it will help him to grow and hopefully this means it won’t happen again.”

The game was similar to that of the 1-0 first leg home loss by Los Blancos, in which the Nerazzurri dominated with many opportunities but couldn’t manage to meet the target.

“

I

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think we created numerous scoring opportunities and positive situations, plus we were doing well up until the red card. Unfortunately, we did well in both games with Real Madrid and didn’t score goals, so evidently we’re lacking something,”

continued Inzaghi.

“Without doubt, the most important thing was qualifying for the Round of 16 and we achieved that with a game in hand.

“We’ll see tomorrow’s results, there are some very strong teams in the draw and the important thing will be reaching that phase in good physical shape.”

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