Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi was disappointed with the manner of his side’s performance after they fell to a 2-0 defeat to Juventus in the Derby d’Italia this evening. Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi said it was unfair that his side lost 2-0 to Juventus in Serie A on Sunday. “We had a very good first half and you cannot go into the break on 0-0 in this stadium after that kind of a performance,” Inzaghi told reporters. “It’s a painful defeat in a big match against our competitor. This is football, perhaps last season we beat them without deserving it, and clearly tonight 2-0 is an unfair result. Unfortunately, these matches are decided by incidents and we didn’t manage to get them our way, so we have to do better.” “We have to do more in these matches. We cannot fail to take the lead with the chances we create, it is all down to the details because these matches are all on a razor’s edge. “We worked for four straight days after returning from Munich on how to deal with these counter-attacks when to foul early to stop them developing and both the Juve goals were gifted in those situations.” Juventus is fifth on 25 points, level with Roma in sixth and 10 behind leaders Napoli, while Inter is seventh on 24 points.

  Italian press reports indicated that Milan is ready to extend Olivier Giroud’s contract as the Frenchman continues to prove himself invaluable to the club. The 36-year-old French forward joined the club in a deal worth around €1m from Chelsea last summer, adding another experienced veteran to the Rossoneri’s frontline alongside Zlatan Ibrahimovic.  Giroud scored 11 goals in 29 games last season to help Milan win the league title, and this season he scored many goals, scoring nine goals in 18 in all competitions. As reported by Corriere Della Sera, Milan has already prepared a contract extension for Giroud, writing up a one-year deal worth €3.5m net, the same figures that he currently earns in the Lombardy capital. 

Inter Milan announced that its Belgian star, Romelu Lukaku, had a new muscle injury, and his condition will be evaluated again in the next few days. Inter's on-loan striker Lukaku has suffered another injury setback just three weeks before the World Cup gets underway in Qatar. The Belgium international only returned last week after spending two months on the sidelines with a thigh injury, scoring on his comeback in a 4-0 Champions League rout of Viktoria Plzen. Lukaku came off the bench in a 3-0 Serie A win over Sampdoria on Saturday, but it remains to be seen when he will be in action again. Inter on Monday revealed he has done damage to his hamstring and faces a wait to discover the extent of the damage. Now queries on how long the player will remain off the pitch and how ready he is to play in the upcoming World Cup in Qatar, which kicks off on November 20. Inter has already qualified for the round of 16 of the Champions League and Lukaku will miss Bayern Munich tomorrow, where the Nerazzurri will face Juventus, Bologna, and Atalanta in the league before the World Cup holiday. Lukaku returned to Inter Milan on loan from Chelsea last summer and the Nerazzurri are planning to extend his stay at the club beyond 2023

  The record set in the name of Milan was broken, in the successive series of lengths without receiving any defeat away from home in the Italian league competition. Struggling Torino grabbed a 2-1 home win against AC Milan on Sunday, condemning the defending champion to its second Serie A loss this season. Defending champion AC Milan fell to a surprise second loss of the season in Serie A with a 2-1 defeat at Torino on Sunday. Milan's 17-game Europe-wide record comes to an end with Torino's defeat. The Rossoneri scored the longest unbeaten streak in the top five European leagues (12 wins - 5 draws). Milan is third in the standings with 26 points from 12 games, while Torino, which moved up to ninth with 17 points, travels to Bologna next Sunday.

  Inter Milan continued its awakening beating Sampdoria 3-0 at home, in a match where they were superior and despite the visitors' chances, they were unable to hit the target and left with a defeat on Saturday at "Giuseppe Meazza" stadium, in the 12th round extending their winning Serie A streak to four games. Inter advanced with 2-0 in the first half via Stephan de Vrij in the 21st minute and Nicolo Parilla in the 44th minute. In the second half, Joaquin Correa added the third in the 73rd minute, abandoning (all) hope of Sampdoria. This victory sent Simone Inzaghi’s side up to fifth place on 24 points, level with Atalanta and Lazio who play Empoli and Salernitana, respectively, on Sunday, while Sampdoria, remains 18th on six points from 12 games. Inter Milan line up was as follows: Goalkeepers: Onana 

Led by coach Luciano Spalletti, Napoli strolled to a 3-0 win over Rangers in the Champions League on Wednesday to set a club record of 12 consecutive victories in all competitions in the fifth round of the group stage of the Champions League at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium. Opta network, which specialized in statistics, stated that Napoli won the 12th match in a row, breaking the record for a series of consecutive victories in the club's history. Opta added that the longest winning streak for the South team was in 1987 under the leadership of historical coach Bianchi, with 11 consecutive victories in all tournaments. Napoli also became the third Italian team to win each of their first five group stage matches in a single edition of the Champions League, after Milan in 1992/93 under Fabio Capello and Juventus in 2004/05 also under Capello. With this victory, Napoli reached the full mark with points, achieving 5 victories in the first five rounds of the European Champions League, to decide his qualification for the round of 16 in the competition.

Press reports revealed that the Portuguese superstar and Manchester United forward Cristiano Ronaldo has been involved in a financial fraud operation within his former club, Juventus. Juventus is under investigation for false accounting and false market communications. The Juve is suspected of falsifying its budgets for 2019, 2020, and 2021, and 16 of its managers and chiefs, including President Andrea Agnelli and Vice President Pavel Nedved, are currently under investigation. According to La Gazzetta Dello Sport, investigators have found a ‘secret document’ signed by Juventus and Cristiano Ronaldo where the club promised their ex-forward €20m despite announcing salary adjustments during the peak of the Covid-19 pandemic. Juventus are under investigation for false accounting and false communications to the market. The Serie A giants are suspected of having falsified their balance sheets for 2019, 2020 and 2021 and 16 of their directors and chiefs – including President Andrea Agnelli and vice president Pavel Nedved – are under investigation, as confirmed by the Turin prosecutor on Monday. According to the report, Juventus promised Ronaldo to pay €20m even if he left the club. The Turin Prosecutor believes the payment agreed upon by the two parties was not regularly registered in Juventus’ financial statement. The newspaper added that the public prosecutor in Turin confirmed that the amount agreed upon by the two parties was not regularly recorded in the financial statement of Juventus. La Stampa, an Italian daily English newspaper published in Turin reported earlier that Ronaldo was asked to clarify his status, but he refused to speak to the public prosecutor in Turin.

Real Madrid manager Carlo Ancelotti confirmed that it’s unacceptable our performance at the beginning of the match, we can't concede two goals from corners at the start during the German match against Leipzig, which we lost 3-2 in the fifth round of the group stage in the Champions League." "You learn more from a defeat than 10 wins in a row. We weren't convincing from set pieces tonight." Carlo Ancelotti's post-match press conference he said.

Italian media have slammed Juventus this morning, Wednesday for 'crumbling' following their shock early exit of the Juventus team from the European Champions League, after the loss it suffered at the hands of its rival, Benfica, Portugal, 4-3, in the fifth round of Group H. Disaster in Lisbon! Juventus crash out at the Champions League group stage despite a late rally against Benfica. Juventus' balance stopped at 3 points in third place in Group H, to fail to qualify for the playoffs in the Champions League for the first time from the 2013-2014 season. Major headlines of the Italian press were as follows: