Inter's Suffering In Complete: Injured By Former, Abandoned By Dewi Fortuna

Alexis Sanchez missed a penalty against Sampdoria (Photo: Antara)

JAKARTA - Inter Milan manager Antonio Conte feels that Dewi Fortuna dumped his team who had struggled with all his might but finally fell to a 1-2 defeat at Sampdoria headquarters, Luigi Ferraris, in the Italian League continued, Wednesday morning.

Conte chose to translate Alexis Sanchez's failure to execute a penalty in the 12th minute and Ashley Young's strike on the ball vomited goalkeeper Emil Audero's imperfect save that hit the crossbar as Dewi Fortuna's impartiality. It was not the two players' inability to take advantage of the opportunities that were before their eyes.

The wounds of the two failures were then sprinkled with salt by two former Inter players themselves, as Antonio Candreva converted a penalty in the 23rd minute and Keita Balde Diao doubled Sampdoria's lead 15 minutes later. The Nerazzurri were only able to reduce the gap through Stefan de Vrij's goal in the 65th minute.

"It's disappointing, because in my opinion we deserve more from this match. We need to analyze what was right, what was wrong, but it was a strange match. The players gave their all, but today Dewi Fortuna dumped us completely," said Conte. told Sky Sports Italia reported by Antara, Thursday.

"It was a really strange match. We found ourselves missing the penalty ball to concede two goals in such a short time. It's tough to come back from 0-2 down, even though we tried to get to the end," he added.

In that match, Conte did not play the burly striker Romelu Lukaku from the start. The Belgian only entered the field in the second half as a substitute because he still had a muscle problem.

"This is not the first time we have played without Romelu. Everyone knows the quality he has, but he is not 100 per cent (fit) and it was clear after he played," said the former Juventus and Chelsea coach.

The figure of a player who was deemed a failure at Inter, Christian Eriksen, was played as a substitute for 20 minutes. More performance records than he was used to.

"I'm trying to maximize all available options based on the situation. I fully comply with the club, and whatever decisions they make in the transfer market, there is nothing else I can do," he said.

"The club knows for sure whether a player needs to leave or come in. I'm just working, the thing I've been doing since I arrived at Inter. Whatever decision is made will always be shared with me," concluded Conte.

Un giorno di riposo per i blucerchiati, da venerdì testa a #SampSpezia ➡️ https://t.co/oRDXQY1EUa pic.twitter.com/VmRleczLwF

- UC Sampdoria (@sampdoria) January 6, 2021

The defeat against Sampdoria saw Inter waste the opportunity to take the top spot from city rivals AC Milan. Milan itself finally lost to Juventus a few hours later.

This weekend Inter return to action on Sunday, January 10 when they visit the headquarters of the capital team AS Roma at the Stadio Olimpico.