Inter will try to keep the ball as much as possible against Arsenal hungry for victory after a three-game winless run in the Premier League, the Serie A club's coach Simone Inzaghi said ahead of the Champions League clash. The main match between Inter and Arsenal is played on Wednesday and belongs to the fourth round of the Champions League. The match starts at 21:00.
Arsenal have not won in the Premier League since a 3-1 home win over Southampton on October 5, which was followed by away defeats to Bournemouth and Newcastle and a 2-2 draw against Liverpool.
"We all know how the big teams react after a defeat, look at us after the derby," Inzaghi told the media conference on Tuesday.
"I watched the game between Arsenal and Newcastle. Playing at home to Newcastle is not easy, but it was an open and fascinating game. We will find a team that was lost a few days ago. They will want to play a good game at San Siro."
Inter lost 2:1 to Milan at the end of September. They then won seven games and drew once in all competitions after their only defeat so far in the current edition.
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Despite recent results, Mikel Arteta's side are unbeaten in Europe's elite club competition. Both teams have seven points each.
"We face one of the best teams in Europe, with a great coach. They competed with Manchester City point for point until the end for the title in the last two editions. We will have to try to keep the ball as much as possible. We know that we are facing a team that exerts a lot of attacking pressure. We know it will be a problem for us when they have the ball," Inzaghi said.
It will be the first time Arsenal have faced Inter since their 5-1 win at the San Siro during the group stage of the 2003/2004 edition.
Arsenal aim for another win against Inter at the San Siro.
"We are coming to Milan to try to win. They played a Champions League final two years ago. These are the matches you want to play. I think that Inter have a strong identity and the credit for that goes to their coach. He knows how to position players in unpredictable ways. It's a match we face in the Premier League as well and we'll see how we handle it," Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta said.
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He praised the coach of Inter, Simone Inzaghi.
"I don't know, every coach has his own ideas. We have to show tomorrow night that we are capable of defeating them", Arteta stressed.
An interesting match on Wednesday is also expected to be the one between PSG and Atletico Madrid. Atletico coach Diego Simeone spoke highly of PSG and their coach Luis Enrique.
Atletico have won nine of their 16 matches against the French in European competition.
"I like the way PSG plays. They have a very good, dynamic game. They have young, dynamic players who we don't know where they will go. They have many players who move in different positions in attack and midfield. They play the kind of football that Luis has always played," Simeone said at the press conference.
Atletico faces the team from Paris after two defeats against Lille 3:1 and Benfica 4:0. They won the first match 2:1 at home against Red Bull Salzburg.
PSG started the campaign with a 1-0 win at home to Girona before suffering a 2-0 defeat to Arsenal and a 1-1 draw at home to PSV Eindhoven.
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"It is still early, it has just started, the season is long and the counting is done at the end", said Simeone.
Luis Enrique has also spoken big words about Simenon.
"We have played against each other as players and then also as coaches. I admire Simeone. "When a coach stays for so many years in a big club, it means that he is great, because this is a very difficult thing to do," said Enrique.
Argentinian Simeone took over at Atletico 13 years ago and has won two Spanish titles and two Europa League trophies.
On Wednesday, the first two games are from 18:45. Club Brugge - Aston Villa and Shakhtar Donetsk - Young Boys will face each other.
The other matches from 21:00 are: Bayern Munich - Benfica, Crvena Zvezda - Barcelona, Feyenoord - Salzburg, Sparta Prague - Brest and Stuttgart - Atalanta.
