Inter Milan Captain Fires Up The Troops With Speech Ahead Of Juventus Clash – ‘It Can’t Be Like AC Milan Debacle’ | OneFootball

Lautaro Martinez has fired up the Inter Milan troops with an impassioned speech ahead of tomorrow’s Serie A clash with Juventus.

Today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews, report that the Nerazzurri captain exhorted his teammates not to make the same mistakes they did against AC Milan.

Tomorrow evening, Inter host Juventus in the first Derby d’Italia of the season.

Matches against the Bianconeri are always among the most important of Inter’s season.

And as is so often the case, there is the air of a potential title-decider around this edition of the fixture.

Inter can go into tomorrow’s match with a fair bit of confidence. But at the same time, the one thing that they absolutely must avoid is complacency.

And that is exactly what Nerazzurri captain Martinez has tried to drill into his teammates.

Lautaro Fires Up Inter Troops Ahead Of Juventus Showdown – “It Can’t Be Like AC Milan”

The last match of this importance that Inter played was against city rivals AC Milan.

The Nerazzurri went into the derby as the favourites on paper. They’d won the previous six editions of the fixture, and were in much better form than the Rossoneri to boot.

But Inter lost their first – and to date, only – match of the season in the derby.

And more than the result, the Nerazzurri were genuinely outplayed, giving their city rivals a major boost in confidence.

Inter captain Martinez spoke to his teammates about this. The shockwaves from that loss in the derby are something that the squad can still feel.

So Martinez has told Inter that it has to be different against Juventus.

The Bianconeri are not necessarily in the most convincing form. They’re still finding their feet under coach Thiago Motta.

But Martinez knows that regardless of the form table, it will be a battle.

And that has been the key point that the Inter captain has made to his teammates.