Inter 4-4 Juventus: Simone Inzaghi says Inter clearly deserved to win Serie A Thriller

Kenan Yildiz was the Derby of Italy hero for the visitors as he came off the bench at San Siro to score twice in 11 second-half minutes against the Serie A champions.

A frantic first half ended 3-2 to Inzaghi, with Piotr Zielinski (two) and Henrikh Mkhitaryan canceling out the efforts of Timothy Weah and Dusan Vlahovic.

And when Denzel Dumfries made it 4-2 in favor of the hosts at half-time, Inzaghi could not have imagined what would happen next.

“To be honest, I have never played in a game like this. It seemed that no one warned about the return of Juventus. Perhaps I could do more, but at the moment I have limited options for rotating the squad.”

Despite being third in the table, the only goal Juventus had conceded before Sunday was a penalty against Cagliari at home.

But for all of Inter’s impressive attacking performances against a notoriously stingy defence, Inzaghi was convinced his “frustrated and angry” side should have scored more in their 18 attempts.

Juventus were a team that had conceded only one penalty in eight Serie A matches, and today they should have conceded seven or eight.

“Unfortunately we had four or five chances to add a fifth. This is an experienced team, we know that such chances cannot be missed.

“Then Yildiz scored without warning. We lost our form a little, then with the fourth goal we made a series of mistakes. This jeopardized a match that we clearly deserved.

“It’s right that the team feels frustrated and angry, but we have to also look at the positives: create nine or 10 clear scoring opportunities against a team that has only conceded once in Serie A this season.”

And while the 20-time Italian champions were boiling in attack, Inzaghi questioned their defence, which conceded four goals from just five shots on target.

“There is disappointment. We were up against a strong team like Juventus, but we can’t concede four goals,” Inzaghi said.

“We have kept two clean sheets in a row, but I am well aware that we need to do more. The shots on target are very similar to last year, but we miss a lot more.

“We are conceding goals that are frankly unacceptable. We probably would have won by a bigger margin last season.”