Cristi Chivu (44 years old) reacted after the first defeat on Inter Milan's bench, 0-2 with Fluminense, in the “optimile” of the World Club Championship 2025. The Romanian technician said that his players were not beaten until the end.
Inter had won group E, with 7 points, after the victories with River Plate, score 2-0, and Urawa, score 2-0, and draw with Monterrey from the first stage, score 0-0. The new Italian coach repeated 3 times in the 60 -second interview offered to Dazn that “it was not our day”.
Cristi Chivu, after the first failure on inter: “I gave my best, but it was not our day”
“We did not get beaten, we tried to return to the game until the end, but it was not our day. We tried to change the system along the way. I gave what we had better, how we always do.
It was a day when we wanted to give what we can, but it was not our day. We did not expect to play with 5 in defense, we did not find solutions in the first half.
Then we tried to change, to play on the edges, to have several centerings, we tried to build with two strikers, in 4-4-2, but it was not our day, that's clear!
“After a difficult season, the players reached the bottom of the bag!”
It was seen that I had no freshness, no brilliance, I felt fatigue and I did not have a team approach that wants at any price to defeat.
We suffered in the face of the intensity of the opponent's game, they pressed us, and we were too arrogant when we had to make things easier.
These were our energies from this tournament, we tried to return to the table, but we were a little unlucky.
I will take from the three weeks in which I came to know the qualities, defects, wounds, character and all the experiences of the players, who, after a difficult season, have reached the bottom of the bag ”, Cristi Chivu said at the end of the match.
I don't want to lose. Now I mean one thing: here you need to stay. Do you understand? Because here we fight for goals. The message is clear: those who want to remain, those who want to leave. We do everything here and we saw many things that I didn't like. I am the captain and I want to continue to stay in the top. The message is clear. Who does not want to stay, goodbye!
Lautaro Martinezthe captain of Inter Milano
