Calhanoglu, glacial director: "A game of suffering, now we are ready for Napoli"

The suffering is endless, but when after eight minutes of injury time and a yellow card waved in front of Inzaghi's eyes, the referee Kovacs blows his whistle three times to close the match, the roar of San Siro is a sort of liberating cry. It's over, Inter has won, maybe playing Italian, but for tonight it's fine like this. There will be other opportunities for good play, what matters is taking home the three points to make a good step forward in the maxi-group.

Qualification for the round of 16 is within reach, the most dangerous opponents (Manchester City and Arsenal) are behind us, and it is right to celebrate on the first real autumn night in Milan. Calhanoglu arrives, his well-mannered foot decided the match in the third minute of injury time in the first half of the game. There could not have been a better way to return to the starting lineup after four games, due to injury. "It was a difficult return - admits the Turk -, I haven't played for 3 weeks. I played 90 minutes in total in the last two games, I needed to have minutes in my legs. Now we are ready for Naples".

With the head already projected forward Calhanoglu, fundamental also yesterday evening in the control room and glacial as always from the spot: "How do I define this penalty? Let's hope we continue like this, I don't want to make a mistake. I looked at the goalkeeper until the end, I did something different".

And then he returns to the match: "I speak in general, the the race was very difficult, Arsenal are very strong. But in the end, only the result counts. We defended well, without conceding any goals. They took a lot of corners, but our defenders did well. Why this suffering? Sometimes it's like that, today we suffered a bit, we worked with so much sacrifice".

Captain is coming Martinez. also exhausted but happy. His match lasted an hour (he was among the yellow cards and then there is Napoli on the horizon) but it was another match of great sacrifice: "These cup matches are beautiful to play, it is exciting to face quality teams like Arsenal. We did our part, in the first 25 minutes with a lot of quality and putting them in difficulty. Then we dropped in intensity and suffered a bit. But in the 90 minutes we showed character, we were a team. Me captain-coach? No, no, it's the coach's job. Sometimes I want to transmit things from the outside too, when you're winning it's better to stay with the high line".