Waiting For 12 Years Inter Milan To Qualify For The Champions League Quarter-finals Ends, Inzaghi: We Write A Little History

Inter Milan coach Simone Inzaghi. (Photo: Twitter/@Inter)

JAKARTA - Inter Milan confirmed that they qualified for the quarter-finals of the 2022/2023 Champions League. The 0-0 draw at FC Porto headquarters in the second leg of the last 16, Wednesday, March 15, early morning WIB, was sufficient for Simone Inzaghi's fleet.

Inter qualified for the last eight after winning 1-0 on aggregate thanks to the victory they won in the first leg at Giuseppe Meazza.

This success ended I Nerazzurri's 12-year wait. Inter coach Simone Inzaghi said his party would enjoy every moment after confirming tickets to the quarter-finals.

"I am very, very happy. All the praise for the team, who managed to take advantage of the energy that I didn't even know they had. We had problems before and during the game, but they remained solid and apart from a rather excessive seven minutes of termination, we took little risk," Inzaghi said after the match., as reported by Football Italia.

Inzaghi admits that he always believes his team can achieve many things, including stopping the bad records of the Italian teams when they travel to Estadio do Dragao, FC Porto headquarters.

"I have faith, because the team is always in the game, in an atmosphere full of passion like this. We know the last four Italian teams to play in Dragao have always lost, so I congratulate the players, we wrote a little history," said the former Lazio coach.

"I am very happy with what we are doing and credit is awarded to these players, who in 18 months have jointly given us trophies and quarter-finals that have been absent from clubs like Inter for too long. We dedicate them to fans," he continued.