Inter Milan Meet Porto In The Champions League Round Of 16, Simone Inzaghi Kenang Together With Conceicao While At Lazio

Simone Inzaghi (Instagram.com/@inter)

JAKARTA - Inter Milan will meet FC Porto in the last 16 of the 2022/2023 Champions League. The moment of meeting the two teams was greeted enthusiastically by Simone Inzaghi.

Apart from being confident that the match will be interesting, another thing that makes Inzaghi enthusiastic is that he will meet Sergio Conceicao, Porto coach.

Quoted from Football Italia, Inzaghi and Conceicao got to know each other when they were still active as players, both of them even had time to defend Lazio. However, now the two names have hung their shoes and focused on coaching.

I know (Sergio) Conceicao well. He is a former teammate of mine, for years at Lazio," Simone Inzaghi enthusiastically quoted from Football Italia on Tuesday, November 8.

Given the togetherness in the past and will return to meet on the sidelines, Inzaghi then revealed that he would respect the opposing team. However, he emphasized that Inter's target had never changed.

With confidence, Inzaghi said that Inter wanted to advance to the next stage. Moreover, it has been quite a while since the elite fashion city club was not in the top eight of the Champions League.

The story of togetherness in the past will be seen in front of our eyes. But this time we are in different positions," said Inzaghi.

"Because this meeting will be two great games and we (Inter Milan) will be ready for that," said the coach.

Inter Milan's opportunity to penetrate this phase is wide open. Moreover, the Nerazzurri have impressed in Europe this season by qualifying from the deadly group.

The Nerazzurri finished second in Group C behind Bayern Munich. Hakan Calhanoglu and his colleagues could even send Barcelona to the Europa League.