AP, Milan :
Inter Milan’s first season back in the Champions League in seven years was brought to a swift end on Tuesday after it failed to beat a team with nothing to play for.
Mauro Icardi rescued a 1-1 draw for Inter against PSV Eindhoven but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Italian team from being eliminated from the knockout stage.
Inter needed to better Tottenham’s result at Barcelona to progress to the round of 16 but that match also finished 1-1, thanks to Lucas Moura’s late equalizer.
Both Inter and Spurs finished the group stage with eight points but the Premier League side took second spot in Group B thanks to the away goal it scored in the 2-1 defeat at Inter in September. Tottenham beat Inter 1-0 at home last month.
“We’re disappointed,” Inter coach Luciano Spalletti said. “We got a bit nervous, a bit disunited and playing in a frenzy doesn’t lead to anything. When such a high place is at stake it’s not easy and if you don’t keep your shape everything becomes more difficult.
“We did better in the second half and we had good chances but we didn’t manage to finish them off. So we need to accept this result. It’s not as if we had a terrible match, we had an OK one, but we could have done better.”
Inter dominated at San Siro, where it had 22 shots compared to five for PSV, but the Dutch side took a surprising lead in the 13th minute through Hirving Lozano.
Inter Milan’s first season back in the Champions League in seven years was brought to a swift end on Tuesday after it failed to beat a team with nothing to play for.
Mauro Icardi rescued a 1-1 draw for Inter against PSV Eindhoven but it wasn’t enough to prevent the Italian team from being eliminated from the knockout stage.
Inter needed to better Tottenham’s result at Barcelona to progress to the round of 16 but that match also finished 1-1, thanks to Lucas Moura’s late equalizer.
Both Inter and Spurs finished the group stage with eight points but the Premier League side took second spot in Group B thanks to the away goal it scored in the 2-1 defeat at Inter in September. Tottenham beat Inter 1-0 at home last month.
“We’re disappointed,” Inter coach Luciano Spalletti said. “We got a bit nervous, a bit disunited and playing in a frenzy doesn’t lead to anything. When such a high place is at stake it’s not easy and if you don’t keep your shape everything becomes more difficult.
“We did better in the second half and we had good chances but we didn’t manage to finish them off. So we need to accept this result. It’s not as if we had a terrible match, we had an OK one, but we could have done better.”
Inter dominated at San Siro, where it had 22 shots compared to five for PSV, but the Dutch side took a surprising lead in the 13th minute through Hirving Lozano.
